The Puente Piedra community is built on a desert and when asked what they wanted most, the community said a green space.
All Newslinks
May 2013
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Scientists Identify Immune Cells That Suppress Genital Herpes (Corey), Globe and Mail, May 8
April 2013
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HIV Tests No Longer Just For High Risk Groups , KUOW, April 30
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Guest Editorial: Africa Must Confront Cancer, Seattle Times, April 26
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Another Experimental AIDS Vaccine Fails, but that’s Progess in Science , Humanosphere, April 25
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World Malaria Day 2013: Are You at Risk? (IHME study quoted), Health.India.Com, April 25
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Polio Endgame? Bill Gates Enlists Islamic Nations in Final Push for Eradication, Seattle Times, April 24
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Malaria Vaccine Development: No Longer a Pipe Dream?, The Guardian, April 24
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Global Health and Art Intersect at Community Cafe, UW Daily, April 16
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UW Professor Earns Global Health Award for Work in STD Field, UW Daily, April 11
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Data Science: The Numbers of Our Lives, New York Times, April 11
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Geek Appeal: New York vs. Seattle (Competing on big data), The New York Times, April 11
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Explore Global Health Through the Arts During Global Health Week, UW Today, April 4
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20 of the Best Tweets from #TEDxChange: Positive Disruption , Impatient Optimists, April 3
Puente Piedra (Before UW Students Helped Create a Green Space)
UW Exploration Seminar Students in Peru Helped Create a Green Space for the Puente Piedra Community.
The project, led by Assistant Prof. Benjamin Spencer in landscape architecture, Prof. Susan Bolton in forest resources, and Prof. Joseph Zunt in global health, won numerous design awards. For more on the project, read the article in UW Today.