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Chantel Prat, associate professor of psychology, has co-authored a new study on reasoning and decision-making.

Take a look back at the last year of the UW's research of and adaptation to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Art H 400, offered in Spring 2021 and taught by Juliet Sperling, an assistant professor in art history, will center around artist Jacob Lawrence.

Ethnomusicology professor Shannon Dudley discusses sound and music immersion.

Kirk Johnson, paleontologist at the Denver Museum of Nature and Science and co-curator of the UW Burke Museum’s new exhibit “Cruisin’ the Fossil Coastline,” describes fellow curator and artist Ray Troll’s images as “extinct animals [that] visit the modern world in daydreams.” This innovative, family-friendly exhibition is at the Burke Museum for all of March and April.

In testimony before the U.S. Senate banking committee on Tuesday, Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell reiterated that the economy is “a long way from the Fed’s employment and inflation goals.” As Congress debates the next round of coronavirus relief funding, some prominent economists have raised concerns about its potential impact on inflation. Fabio Ghironi, professor of economics at the UW, is interviewed.

“Hybrid or all-remote schedules make powerful recruiting tools and look great on paper — carrying the promise of improved equity by giving employees the flexibility to better juggle work and life. But as the head of a women’s college and a cognitive scientist, I have some serious reservations,” writes Sian Beilock, president of Barnard College. A UW study is referenced.

The University of Washington is ranked No. 5 on The Wall Street Journal’s list of top public colleges in the West.

The UW has been included on the list of universities that produced the most 2020-21 Fullbright students. This year alone, 24 UW students received Fullbright awards.

"In early February, The Seattle Times published a report that provides a preliminary glimpse at who has had access to the first set of COVID-19 vaccines that were doled out. As much as I want to tell myself that this is an incomplete picture and that the first set of vaccines is reflective of a strategy to inoculate first responders and medical personnel, I still feel that the preliminary rollout failed to address a key consideration: namely, the disproportionate impact that the pandemic has had on people of color and economically marginalized folks," writes Oscar Rosales Castañeda, a lecturer in American ethnic studies at the UW.