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  • Three Elected to LSA Executive Committee

    Alicia Wassink, Associate Professor of Linguistics and Director of the Sociolinguistics Laboratory at the University of Washington, has been elected to the Executive Committee of the Linguistic Society of America (LSA).

     

    11/09/2020 | Linguistic Society of America
  • Dillon Gisch (B.A. 2013) Wins Rome Prize!

    Dillon Gisch (B.A. 2013, summa cum laude, Classical Studies and Art History) won the Arthur Ross/Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Pre-Doctoral Rome Prize! 

    11/05/2020 | Department of Classics
  • Faculty/staff honors: New atmospheric research board trustee; prize-winning fiction; PBS show consultant

    An English professor’s story is honored, a Jackson School faculty member helps with research for a PBS show, and more.

    11/04/2020 | UW News
  • Faculty/staff honors: New atmospheric research board trustee; prize-winning fiction; PBS show consultant

    English Professor David Crouse and Devin Naar, professor of history and Jewish studies and chair of the Jackson School’s Sephardic Studies Program, are featured in this article for their professional accomplishments.

    11/04/2020 | UW News
  • Vanessa Freije of UW Jackson School explores Mexican politics, journalism in new book ‘Citizens of Scandal’

    Recent news of the arrest of Mexico’s former defense minister makes a new book about Mexican politics and journalism by Vanessa Freije, though a work of history, seem all too timely.

    10/27/2020 | UW News
  • 40 Under 40: Michele Frix leads Seattle Foundation's Covid-19 relief efforts

    Named one of Puget Sound Business Journal's "40 under 40," as the chief strategy officer and chief of staff for Seattle Foundation, Michele Frix (BA, International Studies, 2007) lead the Seattle Foundations efforts after Covid-19 made its way to the region.

    10/26/2020 | Puget Sound Business Journal
  • Jacob Lawrence Legacy Residency Announcement

    The Jacob Lawrence Gallery is thrilled to announce that Ariel René Jackson will be the 2021 Jacob Lawrence Legacy Resident. Jackson’s film-based multidisciplinary practice considers land and landscape as sites of internal representation. For the 2021 Jacob Lawrence Legacy Residency, Jackson (she/her/hers and they/them/theirs) will be collaborating with performance artist Michael J. Love (he/him/his).

    10/22/2020 | School of Art + Art History + Design
  • Presidential Debate Preview

    Leela Fernandes, director of the UW Jackson School of International Studies, joins former Attorney General Rob McKenna and KUOW's Ross Reynolds for a preview of the final presidential debate.

    10/22/2020 | KUOW
  • Outstanding New Initiative - 2020 Student Life Staff Awards

    Student Life honors DXARTS, the College of Engineering, and Housing & Food Services with the Outstanding New Initiative Award for McMahon 8, a makerspace that provides students, staff, and faculty from the UW with the tools and resources to build and prototype their next great idea.

    10/20/2020 | UW Student Life
  • U.S. News Unveils 2021 Best Global Universities Rankings

    U.S. News & World Report, the global authority in education rankings, today released the 2021 edition of the Best Global Universities rankings. With data on nearly 1,500 schools, the rankings evaluate universities from dozens of countries on academic research and reputation. The UW is ranked No. 8.

    10/20/2020 | U.S. News