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A senior in the School of Interdisciplinary Arts & Sciences, Philip Palios won a yearlong U.S. Student Fulbright grant to earn a master’s in environment, culture and communication at the University of Glasgow Dumfries campus in southwest Scotland.

As part of their diversity discourse program, students in the Digital Future Lab played Monopoly with “real life” rules. Players started the board game with different amounts of money, debt and taxes.

For her undergraduate research, UW Bothell senior Malak Shalabi interviewed Syrian refugees in Jordan about torture they suffered. The law, economics and public policy major is headed to the UW Law School to study international law, with the goal of promoting justice in the Muslim world.

The UW Bothell Cryptocurrency Club brings together students interested in digital currencies and the underlying blockchain technology. The club shares ideas, brings speakers to campus and make contacts that can lead to jobs. Future activities include a cryptocurrency festival and mining a new coin.

For the past year, five University of Washington students have teamed together to bring a slice of forest back to life as part of a capstone project. The students — three from UW Bothell and two from Seattle — helped transform a half-acre of North Creek Forest from a neglected eyesore to a haven teeming with life.