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Staff Spotlight: Laura Blumhagen
Laura on a favorite hiking trail Laura is an Information Specialist with the Elisabeth C. Miller Library. She works half-time, dividing her time between reference services, working on Leaflet...
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Student Spotlight: Emma Relei
In Emma Relei’s extensive list of “favorite” plants, one of them is the simple crocus, meaningful for her because of its prominence in a much-loved children’s tale, The Runaway Bunny; another is...
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Staff Spotlight: Catherine Moore Nelson
Catherine began volunteering to lead adult tours and youth programs for the UW Botanic Gardens in 2006 and in 2011, she received the Brian Mulligan volunteer of the year award. More recently, she...
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Volunteer Spotlight: Heidi Lennstrom
Heidi volunteers at the Hyde Herbarium, working with pressed plants and the plant database. She holds a PhD in archaeology, specializing in paleoethnobotany–the study of plant remains from...
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Staff Spotlight: Jessica Anderson
Jessica Anderson is a librarian at the Elisabeth C. Miller Library at the University of Washington Botanic Gardens. Most days you will see Jessica at the Reference desk, doing research or providing...
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Faculty Spotlight: Tom Hinckley
Tom Hinckley no doubt kept his much younger graduate students challenged to keep up as he climbed to over 7000′ on Snowshoe Mountain in the North Cascades. It was there he chose to conduct research...
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Volunteer Spotlight: Carolyn Scott
At the University of Washington Botanic Gardens, we rely on volunteers–over 500 of them– to keep daily operations afloat. Volunteer Carolyn Scott works in the administrative heart of the Gardens,...
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Staff Spotlight: Jessica Farmer
Jessica Farmer is one of those fortunate individuals who, through a combination of foresight, focus and possibly a bit of luck, ended up in her dream job. “Just outside my office door at the Center for...
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Student Spotlight: Tessarae Mercer
Tessarae Mercer is an Intern at the UW Farm this summer. The work fulfills part of her capstone (graduation requirement) for the Program on the Environment. She grew up in Vancouver, Washington before...
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Volunteer Spotlight: Kyra Kaiser
Kyra Kaiser always dreaded public speaking growing up. So you might not expect that she would end up as one of UW Botanic Gardens’ most enthusiastic tour guides at the Washington Park Arboretum,...
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