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Visible Mending workshop hosted by the Remakery. Photo Credit: Leigh Urbaniak With my favorite pair of tattered Levi’s jeans in hand, I walk into the Tacoma Public Library to attend the free Visible Mending workshop hosted by the Remakery, a local nonprofit organization that helps people use donated materials to make inventive crafts and practical fixes on already-owned items. Some might describe my raggedy jeans as worthless, but I see them as well-loved. Holes cover nearly every surface of my pants, and they really need patching up.    The volunteers who...

Visible Mending workshop hosted by the Remakery. Photo Credit: Leigh Urbaniak With my favorite pair of tattered Levi’s jeans in hand, I walk into the Tacoma Public Library to attend the free Visible Mending workshop hosted by the Remakery, a local nonprofit organization that helps people use donated materials to make inventive crafts and practical fixes on already-owned items. Some might describe my raggedy jeans as worthless, but I see them as well-loved. Holes cover nearly every surface of my pants, and they really need patching up.    The volunteers who...

Leela Perez-Cobo As of Jan. 29, several executive orders paused federally funded research for colleges and universities nationwide. Referred to as a “funding freeze,” these orders suspend billions of dollars worth of grants and loans from the federal government. These funds are commonly utilized by universities and research institutions to support university-based research projects and labs. With this shift in mind, universities and institutions alike are adjusting to new funding environments and parameters in which to carry out their work.    Due to the funding freeze, the National Institute of Health...