Before the oars dip their blades signaling the beginning of the Windemere Cup, before hundreds of flag-draped boats parade from Portage Bay to Lake Washington to open the boating season, the campaign to save the ASºÚÁϳԹÏÍø Shell House at the ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø already can be called a winner.Â
Perched on the southeast corner of the ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø campus, where the Montlake Cut meets Union Bay, the ASºÚÁϳԹÏÍø Shell House looks as vulnerable as it does majestic. Over the course of a century, the structure built as a critical wartime post later was the home to a group of rowers who captured the nation’s imagination before becoming an all-but-forgotten artifact of the past. Now, propelled by a wave of renewed interest, the 12,000-square-foot wooden structure is the focus of an $18.5 million campaign that will restore and renovate the space.
The ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø on Sunday held its 39th annual New Student Convocation, which returned to Alaska Airlines Arena, Hec Edmundson Pavilion, for the first time since 2019.
Craig Wilson has been promoted to chief of police at the ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø Police Department, ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø Vice President for Student Affairs Denzil Suite and ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø Interim Vice President for Campus & Community Safety Sally Clark announced Wednesday. Wilson’s appointment is effective Aug. 1.
ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø’s 147th commencement ceremonies are scheduled to return this June to in-person celebrations in Alaska Airlines Field at Husky Stadium for the first time since 2019. Similar in-person commencement ceremonies are being planned for ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø Bothell and ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø Tacoma.
ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø President Ana Mari Cauce sat down with Vice President of Student Life Denzil Suite for a candid conversation about how COVID-19 is affecting campus operations, why classes will no longer meet in person for the rest of the quarter and whether a student-led petition had an impact on the decision.
The ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø held a press conference at 12:30 p.m. Friday, March 6, 2020 to address the decision to move classes online in an effort to limit the spread of the COVID-19 outbreak, and address the ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø staff member who received a presumptive positive test result.
Convocation welcomes the entering class and officially marks the beginning of the academic year. ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø classes begin Sept. 25. More than 6,000 people were expected to attend this year’s event.
The ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø welcomed nearly 10,000 students during Husky move-in days Sept. 18-20.