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Student Spotlight: Nate Haan
Nate in the Goodfellow Grove at the Center for Urban Horticulture Nate is a PhD Candidate who became involved with UW Botanic Gardens when he joined Professor Jon Bakker’s lab at the Center for Urban...
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Staff Spotlight: Tracy Mehlin
Tracy visiting The Butchart Gardens on Vancouver Island Tracy is the Information Technology Librarian in the Elisabeth C. Miller Library. She grew up in the Southwest, in Southern California and Las...
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Student Spotlight: Regina Wandler
Regina Wandler is a graduate student in the Master of Environmental Horticulture program, within the University of Washington’s School of Environmental and Forest Sciences. For her masters project,...
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Student Spotlight: Anna Carragee
All Posts Meet Anna Louise Carragee. Anna is a Master of Environmental Horticulture student in the University of Washington’s School of Environmental and Forest Sciences, and she will start her...
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Staff Spotlight: Lisa Sanphillippo
Meet Lisa Dora Sanphillippo! Lisa is the School Fieldtrips Coordinator for UW Botanic Gardens. She lived in L.A. until she was 8 years old. Her mom “got a little freaked out” by the big city, big...
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Volunteer Spotlight: Richard Fleenor
Meet Richard Fleenor. Richard is a Rare Care volunteer with UW Botanic Gardens. He monitors rare plant populations on the east side of the state and usually takes one to two assignments a year. Rare...
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Staff Spotlight: Annie Bilotta
Annie Bilotta is a Gardener, working at the Center for Urban Horticulture. She is originally from New York State, and she moved to Seattle in 1989. Annie started working at the UW Botanic Gardens in...
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Volunteer Spotlight: Julie Bresnan
When she’s not at her day job, you can usually find Julie Bresnan on the hunt for an elusive rare plant. Julie volunteers for the Rare Plant Care and Conservation program of the UW Botanic Gardens,...
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Staff Spotlight: Rebecca Alexander
Rebecca in the Washington Park Arboretum Rebecca Alexander is the Plant Answer Line librarian in the Elisabeth C. Miller Library. In addition to providing reference services, she works on acquisitions,...
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Student Spotlight: Daniel Sorensen
Daniel Sorensen is a graduate student at the UW School of Environmental and Forest Sciences, working in the lab of UW Botanic Gardens Director, Sarah Reichard, and researching the risk of invasion...
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Volunteer Spotlight: Kirsten Rasmussen
Kirsten is a Volunteer at the Elisabeth C. Miller Library. She grew up in Denmark near Copenhagen and relocated to the Seattle area in October of 2011. Kirsten likes to garden, knit, and sing in her...
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Staff Spotlight: Sasha McGuire
Sasha McGuire is the Education Programs Assistant for Adult, Youth and Family Programs at the UW Botanic Gardens. Sasha enjoys reading, hiking, and video games; she also dabbles in cooking and...
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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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