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After spending roughly 4.9 million years in Ellensburg, the jaw bone of deer is making its way to the collection at the Burke Museum on the University of Washington campus in Seattle.

Margaret O'Mara, a professor at the UW who studies U.S. electoral history weighs in on the gender breakdown in the recent elections.

Kathryn Bunn-Marcuse, Assistant Professor of Art History, explains that there's no history of towering monumental poles being made by the Salish and other Puget Sound region tribes.

For years, alumnus Bill Lord suppressed memories of fighting in Vietnam. Now he explores that period of his life in a new book. 

The University of Washington College of Arts & Sciences and the Office of Minority Affairs & Diversity (OMA&D) announced that the Sara Little Turnbull Foundation has made a $200,000 gift to benefit underrepresented minority, low-income and first-generation students pursuing design degrees within the School of Art + Art History + Design.

An international team of scientists, including some from the UW, have virtually reconstructed a Neandertal skeleton–shedding new light on the posture of ancient humans. 

A paper published in the Royal Society’s journal Interface explores the effects of seawater on protein-based adhesives produced by marine mussels (bivalve mollusks). According to the study conducted by UW researchers, low pH and oxygen conditions in seawater cause the mussel’s adhesive plaques to weaken.

Opinion piece by UW Department of History Professor, Margaret O'Mara.

International cybersecurity expert, Dr. Jessica Beyer, weighs in on potential motivations for election hacking. 

UW archeologist, Ben Marwick, weighs in on a recent discovery.