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  • An image from the Digitized Sky Survey showing HS Hydrae in the center.

    A Rarely Observed Stellar Dance

    Two stars in a binary star system eclipsed each other repeatedly over the past century, but that is expected to end this month.

    February 2021 Perspectives
  • UW books in brief: Historian Anand Yang explores British ‘penal transportation’; world music textbooks by Patricia Shehan Campbell

    Anand Yang, professor of history, and Patricia Shehan Campbell, professor of music education and ethnomusicology, have both authored new books.

    02/17/2021 | UW News
  • UW chemist and oceanographer named Sloan Fellows

    Ashleigh Theberge, an assistant professor in the Department of Chemistry, and Jodi Young, an assistant professor in the School of Oceanography, have been named 2021 Sloan Fellows.

    02/17/2021 | UW News
  • UW undergrad’s first novel, optioned for a movie, features big robots and even bigger feelings

    UW student Zoe Mikuta’s first book, “Gearbreakers,” is set to come out June 29. Mikuta has sold the film rights to “Gearbreakers,” and she’s currently working on its sequel, due out in 2022. Shawn Wong, professor of English at the UW, is quoted.

    02/17/2021 | IE Examiner
  • Opinion: Capitol marble

    “Watching the second impeachment trial of Donald Trump, an epochal event in U.S. history, I could not take my eyes from the rostrum. Though attentive to the words being spoken, with their pointed meaning and sharp emotion, I could not unseize my view from the polished stone wall that framed every speaker. It was — and is — as arresting as anything said during this extraordinary, profoundly disturbing trial,” writes Scott Montgomery, lecturer of international studies at the UW.

    02/17/2021 | Global Policy Journal
  • Fights Over Indian Farm Laws Ignore Green Revolution’s Climate And Economic Problems

    Of the two sides in the conflict over India's new farm laws, Nives Dolšak, professor of marine and environmental affairs at the UW, and Aseem Prakash, professor of political science at the UW, write, “Neither camp offers any solution to the most crucial challenge: ensuring that the Green Revolution belt farmers grow less rice, which is economically and ecologically problematic.”

    02/16/2021 | Forbes
  • Jacob Lawrence Legacy Resident Ariel René Jackson’s ‘Descendance’ balances intention and play

    "Descendance," an exhibition by 2021 Jacob Lawrence Legacy Residency and film-based multidisciplinary artist Ariel René Jackson, is on display at the Jacob Lawrence Gallery.

    02/16/2021 | The Daily
  • Enunciating Power: Amanda Gorman and My Battle With Claiming My Voice

    “I caught the live telecast [of the presidential inauguration] just as Amanda Gorman was set to recite her soul-stirring poem ‘The Hill We Climb.’ As she took the stage, radiant in her bright yellow jacket and red headpiece, the morning’s frustrations began to recede. And when she gifted us her words, I could feel the nation let out a collective sigh of relief after four years of weathering trauma,” writes Maya Smith, associate professor of French and Italian studies at the UW.

    02/16/2021 | Yes! Magazine
  • The Trumpiest Republicans Are At The State And Local Levels — Not In D.C.

    The Republican Party’s most-Trump and pro-Trumpism contingent and the forces in the party pushing its growing radical and antidemocratic tendencies are often not national Republicans, but those at the local and state levels. Jake Grumbach, assistant professor of political science at the UW, is quoted.

    02/16/2021 | FiveThirtyEight
  • If Work Is Going Remote, Why Is Big Tech Still Building?

    Google, Facebook and others promise more flexibility to work from home. But they’re charging ahead with plans for more offices. Margaret O'Mara, professor of history at the UW, is quoted.

    02/16/2021 | Wired