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"Black History Month is a chance to recognize that Black history is American history. It’s an important time to reflect on the ways in which Black people, their stories and their impact have so often been elided and erased from our shared understanding of ourselves as a nation and a people," writes UW President Ana Mari Cauce.

The shapes of fossilized teeth from 65.9 million-year-old, squirrel-like creatures suggest that the branch of the tree of life that gave rise to humans and other primates flowered while dinosaurs still walked the earth. The UW’s Gregory Wilson Mantilla, Burke Museum curator of vertebrate paleontology and professor of biology, and Brody Hovatter, a graduate student in Earth and space sciences, are quoted.

UW theater student Jarrett Johnson is among an entire class of emerging theater artists — fresh from drama programs, hustling between part-time jobs and busy audition schedules, or about to make their big breaks — whose careers have been stalled by the COVID-19 pandemic. The UW's Odai Johnson, professor of theater history, and Stefka Mihaylova, assistant professor of theater theory and criticism, are quoted.

New experiments have answered the decades-old question of how pieces of splitting nuclei get their spins. George Bertsch, professor emeritus of physics at the UW, is quoted.

Public-private partnership will renovate Art and Music Buildings.

Indigenous communities in the Pacific Northwest bred little, fluffy white dogs that provided for them, both materially and spiritually. A discovery made by Coast Salish spinning researcher Liz Hammond-Kaarremaa at the UW’s Burke Museum is mentioned.

The University of Washington is featured in this article about the world's best schools to learn Hindi.

This week at the UW, attend Fermented Face with Candice Lin, the School of Drama's dis/re/connection, and more.

The UW has launched a new initiave to promote faculty diversity, equity, and inclusion, including $5 million for faculty hiring.

A sampling of recent stories in local and national media featuring College of Arts & Sciences faculty.