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Exploring the World — and Global Careers
International studies major Grace Kelly has explored the world, including study abroad experiences in Vietnam and Madrid and an internship with the State Department.
Making Art, Making Connections
Art major Kyra Wolfenbarger has been a researcher, museum intern, and arts writer at the UW. What’s shaped her most are the people she’s met along the way.
The Challenge of Peer-Produced Websites
Professor Benjamin Mako Hill studies why successful peer-produced websites like Wikipedia eventually struggle to maintain their openness to new contributors.
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UW helps bring the cosmos into focus as the Vera C. Rubin Observatory unveils a new glimpse into the solar system
A new era of astronomy and astrophysics began Monday when the first images captured by the NSFDOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory were released, demonstrating the extraordinary capabilities of the new telescope and the worlds largest digital camera.
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The man who invented the modern zoo tested out his ideas on people first
Carl Hagenbeck believed that animals should be housed in habitats that mimicked their natural environment. Earlier, hed followed the same guiding philosophy when exhibiting Indigenous people in human zoos. Karen S. Emmerman, affiliate instructor of philosophy at the UW, is quoted. -
Satellite streaks: Can the huge new Vera Rubin Observatory function in the megaconstellation age?
When astronomers first dreamt up the Vera Rubin Observatory in the 1990s, the sky above the Chilean Cerro Pachn, where the star-observing machine was to be located, looked different than it does today. Meredith Rawls, a research scientist of astronomy at the UW, is quoted.
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