UW News
Jen Davison
October 27, 2015
UW initiative aims to tackle city, region’s most pressing urban issues
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When Thaisa Way put a call out last spring to see if University of Washington faculty members working on urban issues wanted to join forces, she wasn’t sure what the response would be. “There were a lot of people who said, ‘You’re not going to get anyone to show up,’” said Way, a UW associate…