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Andrea Godinez, assistant director of communications at the Burke
Museum, discusses all the resources the UW's Burke Museum has to offer to
students and the public.

Last year, Amazon surpassed Boeing as the state’s largest private employer, usurping a title the airplane manufacturer had likely held since the post-World War II era. The UW’s Margaret O’Mara, professor of history; Jeff Shulman, professor of marketing; and Andrew Hedden, associate director of the Harry Bridges Center for Labor Studies, are quoted.

Eleven Seattle-area community members pay tribute to a few of the cultural figures we lost last year. UW piano professor Robin McCabe remembers UW emeritus piano professor Bela Siki.

“Humanities Washington convened an interesting and provocative online discussion about controversial public monuments and ways we might think about whether they remain as is, whether they should be reinterpreted given today’s understanding or whether there are cases in which they should be moved to private settings,” writes Rufus Woods, publisher emeritus of The Wenatchee World. Josh Reid, associate professor of American Indian studies at the UW, is quoted.

Tim Salzman, UW director of bands, is mentioned in this article about a virtual composition class.

Department of Statistics faculty are featured in this article about their COVID-19 research.

Twenty moments from a year like no other — captured through the lenses of UW photographers.

A 19th-century claim has fueled a 21st-century debate about how a warming climate might reshape animals. One "rule," declaring that animals in warmer regions usually have darker exteriors, whereas those in cooler regions are lighter, is being reconsidered. Lauren Buckley, professor of biology at the UW, is quoted.

The National Archives building in Seattle is slated for sale, a move that could deprive Indigenous people in the Pacific Northwest of access to critical documents. Josh Reid, associate professor of American Indian studies at the UW, is quoted.

In an era of quantum computing and self-driving cars, Sarah Stroup, professor of classics at the UW, teaches a class called "STEM in the Ancient World." [This is the second segment of "The Record"]