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This is a war': Republicans ramp up bid to control election maps for next decade
Jacob Grumbach, assistant professor of political science, discusses a Republican group soliciting millions of dollars from corporations to protect its conservative base.
06/22/2020 | The Guardian -
Hubble space telescope captures star 'going haywire' as it dies
Bruce Balick, professor emeritus of astronomy discusses images from the Hubble telescope planetary nebulae, huge clouds of gas and dust in space, illuminated by blasts from dying stars.
06/22/2020 | Yahoo! Life -
Signs It's Too Soon to Say 'I Love You' — Because, Yes, There Is Such Thing
Pepper Schwartz, professor of sociology, discusses the appropriate time to say "I love you" in a relationship and the issues that can arise with saying it too soon.
06/22/2020 | Yahoo! Life -
Keeping an eye on rogue cops in Pierce County before the age of cellphone cameras
Nancy Bartley, a doctoral student in English, writes that in her decades of journalism she saw police dealing out "street justice" as a common practice against Blacks.
06/21/2020 | The News Tribune -
Seattle's activist-occupied zone is just the latest in a long history of movements and protests
James Gregory, professor of history, and Michael McCann, professor of political science, discuss how CHAZ/CHOP fits into Seattle's history of protests.
06/21/2020 | The Guardian -
Recommended Reads on Systemic Racism
Books by Arts & Sciences and other UW faculty on race, anti-racism, and social justice.
June 2020 Perspectives -
Earl Davie, co-founder of ZymoGenetics and pioneer in blood-clotting research, dies at 93
Earl Davie, professor emeritus of biochemistry, was a pioneer in the field of biotechnology and research in blood clotting. He died June 6 of complications related to old age.
06/19/2020 | The Seattle Times -
Ross: Protesting takes form of ‘healthy coping’ during pandemic
Dave Ross talks to Jonathan Kanter, research associate professor of psychology, about how protesting can be a form of "healthy coping."
06/19/2020 | MyNorthwest -
Mathematicians urge colleagues to boycott police work in wake of killings
Jayadev Athreya, associate professor of mathematics, among other mathematics researchers has signed a letter calling on the discipline to stop working on predictive-policing algorithms.
06/19/2020 | Nature -
A safe space for Black people to center on healing and joy on Juneteenth
Mary Hall Williams, anthropology student who organized the event, is interviewed about the celebration of Juneteenth at the Capitol Hill Occupied Protest.
06/19/2020 | KUOW