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Zooming into Sex Ed
A psychology course on human sexuality is the largest UW class — ever. Revising the content has been a journey.
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Connecting Communities with Health Care
Concerned about the lack of health coverage for undocumented individuals, UW senior Marium Raza is taking action.
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Voting by the Numbers
Think voting is simple? A new course co-taught by statistics and philosophy faculty explores the many complexities of the voting process.
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An election worker in Pennsylvania handles mailed ballots during that state’s primary election in May. AP Photo/Matt Rourke Mail-in voting is safe and reliable – 5 essential reads
“Many scholars have studied various aspects of mail-in voting, looking at how secure it is, how susceptible to fraud it might be, and what voting officials need to do to handle an influx of ballots arriving by mail,” writes Jeff Inglis, The Conversation’s politics + society editor. Jake Grumbach, assistant professor of political science at the UW, and Charlotte Hill, of the University of California Berkeley, are referenced.
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An Infinite Universe of Number Systems
The p-adics form an infinite collection of number systems based on prime numbers. They’re at the heart of modern number theory. Bianca Viray, associate professor of mathematics at the UW, is quoted.
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Daniel Bessner, who holds the Joff Hanauer Honors Professorship in Western Civilization, is the featured commentator in a CNN story about whether the U.S. should impose age limits on elected leaders.
Daniel Bessner, who holds the Joff Hanauer Honors Professorship in Western Civilization, is the featured commentator in a CNN story about whether the U.S. should impose age limits on elected leaders.
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New annual book prize named for late UW historian William Rorabaugh
The national Alcohol and Drugs History Society has established an annual book prize in the name of longtime University of Washington history professor William Rorabaugh, who died this spring, calling him “a pioneer in the social history of alcohol.”
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Will The Biden Administration Transform U.S. Climate Policy?
“Democrats project the image of one big happy pro-climate family, united against a common foe. This has fed the expectation that the Biden administration will transform U.S. climate policy. Trump turned the climate action switch off, but Biden will turn it back on,” write Nives Dolšak, professor of marine and environmental affairs at the UW, and Aseem Prakash, professor of political science at the UW.
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Bring on the Polls
Mark Alan Smith, professor of political science at the UW, talks about polling in the 2016 election and what it can tell us about the 2020 election.
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New Chinook art piece welcomes visitors to the Burke Museum: Guests from the Great River
Vital symbols of the ancient Chinook Indian Nation culture have been installed at the east entrance of the Burke Museum at the University Washington’s main campus.