It is with great pleasure that we share the following interview with emeritus professors Merrill and Bertil Hille which was recently posted by Whole U, the university’s program for health and wellness. A short excerpt is included below.

Distinguished emeritus professors Merrill and Bertil Hille are partners in wellness and paragons of active — even adventurous — aging

Like many retired couples of a certain age, Bertil and Merrill Hille log their engagements in an old-fashioned paper calendar. Theirs would look pretty unremarkable, actually, if not for the sprawling range of scribbled triangles that blankets much of its orderly grid like crowded peaks on a topographic map. 

“Each of these triangles is a mountain hike,” explains Bertil, an emeritus professor in the UW Department of Neurobiology [sic] and Biophysics.