UW chemists are not just scientists- I remember my professor/advisor’s office back in the Vietnam war days. Eclectic stuff there, some from his grad students from all over. We read Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring and wrote a one page paper on it as part of the Honors chemistry class (second semester was The Double Helix). I wonder if the current state government political trending is to avoid the extremes of that era as well. I’m sure the Chemistry department was not looking at his views when hired/taken on as a grad student.