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Pitfalls of power: Seven-hour epic play ‘The Octavia’ is ‘like binge-watching Game of Thrones’
A seven-hour, unfinished epic play about Nero? Daredevil playwright Anne Washburn might be the only one who could pull it off.
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Why STEM Majors Need the Humanities
"A good piece of technical work is part of a narrative that has a long plot line and a large cast of characters," says UW Math professor Neal Koblitz.
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Two UW professors win Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers
Two University of Washington professors have received the 2017 Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers, the highest honor given by the U.S. government.
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Seattle Artist Akio Takamori Has Died
Akio Takamori, professor emeritus of art at the UW, died of cancer on Wednesday night.01/12/2017 | The Stranger -
UW Hyperloop team fuels its final dash to the national pod races with crowdfunding
The UW’s Hyperloop team is getting ready to compete in a set of pod races aimed at blazing a trail for a new means of near-supersonic travel – but they need a little help to get to the starting line.01/10/2017 | Geek Wire -
Study: Did America's growing diversity make voters more xenophobic?
A new study shows that the increasingly large minority populations in the United States may have contributed to Donald Trump's victory.
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Pitfalls of power: Seven-hour epic play ‘The Octavia’ is ‘like binge-watching Game of Thrones’
A seven-hour, unfinished epic play about Nero? Daredevil playwright Anne Washburn might be the only one who could pull it off.
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Historians in the Age of Trump
In this Inside Higher Ed piece, scholars debate what Donald Trump's election means, whether efforts to band together as a discipline to oppose him were wrong and what the future may hold.01/09/2017 | Inside Higher Ed -
Affordable Child Care Shouldn’t be Just for the Wealthy
Ruchika Tulshyan, lecturer of communication at the UW, and Tracey Whitten of The Seattle Women's Commission are quoted.01/08/2017 | The Seattle Times -
Increased Diversity Sparked Voters' Implicit Racial Biases: Study
Allison Skinner, a postdoctoral researcher at the UW is quoted.01/07/2017 | News Week