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A collaboration between the University of Washington Bothell and Cascadia College has received significant funding from the Office on Violence Against Women, a division of the U.S. Department of Justice. “This award will be transformational.”

UW Bothell Lecturer Laura Umetsu, in partnership with the Seattle chapter of the National Alliance on Mental Illness, helps students understand the impact of mental health on society even while they learn essential business writing skills.

Nursing students in the course Population-based Health in Community Practice discovered unique ways to apply their learning this past summer. Teaching basic yoga poses, giving presentations on body mechanics, and the ever-important art of listening helped them to better understand the communities they serve as nurses.

In honor of National Immunization Awareness Month, Dr. Justin Gill, health policy lecturer in the School of Nursing & Health Studies, shares his experience as a nurse practitioner in a pandemic and urges us to come together to meet this moment in our history.

Not all garden soils are created equal. At UW Bothell, Dr. Melanie Malone investigates contaminants and their prevalence in shared garden spaces like community gardens. Focusing on sites and communities often impacted by pollution, she notes that contaminated soil and marginalized populations often go hand in hand.