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Watch our students forge their own paths

Explore four out of 3,027 outstanding College of Arts and Sciences students' husky experience.

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Arianne Eason outside a building on the UW campus.

An Optimist Studies Race & Equity

PhD student Arianne Eason believes that understanding what shapes our views on race is the first step toward...

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UW's Renaissance Man

Scientist, humanist, and ASUW president Osman Salahuddin has experienced the UW from multiple perspectives.

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Oded Oron seated on a bench on the UW campus

Learning from Asylum Seekers in Israel

Oded Oron witnessed a massive protest of aslyum-seeking refugees in Tel Aviv. Then he wrote a PhD dissertation about...

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Meet the artist: Painter Miha Sarani

Columns Magazine's June cover is a painting of Orin Smith by Miha Sarani, a BFA alum, current MA student, and former Starbucks employee. What's his painting's secret? Coffee. Read More at Columns

What if your class schedule put you in a room with all of this year’s best teachers?

We imagine what it would be like for a student to cross paths with every winner of the 2018 Distinguished Teaching Awards. Read More at Columns

I Dig Dinos

Jun 24

This month, beat the heat and enter the Ice Age! Learn the difference between a mastodon and a mammoth, get inspired by ice age teeth... View Event Details