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Crossing the Bosphorus: My Great-Grandmother’s Sephardic Memoir
Dr. Hannah Pressman, Communications Director for the UW Stroum Center for Jewish Studies uncovers the journey of her great-grandmother from the island of Rhodes to Paris.
10/03/2016 -
The Sephardic Jewish Brotherhood of America Celebrates Its Centennial
The Sephardic Jewish Brotherhood of America, which first met in a Lower East Side café in 1915, strives to connect to the youth 100 years later.
10/03/2016 -
Editorial | Moral obligation to not create debtors' traps for poor defendants
Tacking on exorbitant court fines and fees to the criminal conviction of a homeless woman is not justice.
10/03/2016 -
Opinion: Update the Nobel Prizes
If UW's Robert Paine had been a physicist, chemist or cell biologist, he likely would have been in contention for a Nobel Prize for coining the term "keystone species."
10/03/2016 -
Our political divide makes dialogue crucial, but difficult
At a Seattle Town Hall forum with local scholars, some acknowledged polarization driven by rapid social change makes good politics difficult.
09/30/2016 -
Are We Headed Into Another Mass Extinction?
In this TED Talk, Peter Ward, paleontologist and astrobiologist at the UW, explains what we can learn from previous mass extinctions.
09/30/2016 | NPR -
Dance with a Spirit of Anarchy
The UW's Chamber Dance Company will perform early works by Judson Dance Theatre, October 13-16,
09/30/2016 | College of Arts & Sciences -
‘If these shackles could speak’: Charles Johnson’s powerful statement for Smithsonian Magazine feature on new African American Museum of History and Culture
Charles Johnson was asked to write a statement about an item that will be displayed in the new National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington, D.C.
09/29/2016 -
KOMO 4 | Presidential debate
KOMO News interviews Matt McGarrity, principal lecturer of communication at the UW, about whether the conditions of the debate favor one candidate over the other.
09/28/2016 -
Trump could win this, UW prof says
Could Trump win? University of Washington political science professor Christopher Parker thinks he can do it, and says race is a factor.
09/28/2016