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Quick Recap: A Busy April!

Published on May 4, 2016

Mosaic image showing Gasworks Park, John Vidale, Egar Pieterse, a data viz, and a barista.
Image Credit: Designed by Urban@UW, images courtesy of UW, Wikimedia, Flickr, African Centre for Cities

April saw a lot of wonderful developments here at the University of Washington, here’s a quick recap:

  • Our first Office Hours interview with John Vidale (more coming of these soon!)
  • UW researchers continued to explore the effects of a $15/hr minimum wage.
  • PBS premiered their 10 Parks that Changed America program featuring our own Thaisa Way and Iain Robertson of UW
  • Edgar Pieterse delivered a fantastic talk about African urbanism!
  • Joe Lott launched the University’s new Brotherhood Initiative! Congrats Joe!

Stayed tuned here, on Facebook, and on Twitter!


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