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Learn Hindi from the best Universities in the World
The University of Washington is featured in this article about the world's best schools to learn Hindi.
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ArtSci Roundup: Fermented Face with Candice Lin, After Democracy: A Conversation with Zizi Papacharissi, and More
This week at the UW, attend Fermented Face with Candice Lin, the School of Drama's dis/re/connection, and more.
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UW launches Faculty Diversity Initiative
The UW has launched a new initiave to promote faculty diversity, equity, and inclusion, including $5 million for faculty hiring.
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CAS IN THE NEWS
A sampling of recent stories in local and national media featuring College of Arts & Sciences faculty.
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There's a rare yellow penguin on South Georgia island, and biologists can't quite explain it
Black-and-white tuxedos may be the conventional dress code in the penguin world, but one dashing individual is breaking the status quo with an à la mode yellow coat. Dee Boersma, professor of biology at the UW, is quoted.
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Will downtown Seattle bounce back after the pandemic?
After months of deserted streets and shuttered storefronts, the businesses, institutions and individuals that depend on downtown Seattle are desperate to see it come back to life, but have little certainty whether or when it can regain its earlier vitality. Margaret O'Mara, professor of history at the UW, is quoted.
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Seattle touts itself as the country’s most literate, most educated city. Whoa. We used to be pretty rough.
Dig a little, and Seattle’s scrubby past inevitably pops up. We might be all high-tech now, all digital wizards, but back there are the city’s ancestors. They could be rough. Really rough. John Findlay, professor emeritus of history at the UW, is referenced.
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Carbon-Free Electricity Requires Policies To Build And Finance Transmission And Storage
Aseem Prakash, professor of political science, explains why the United States will need to expand its transmission capacity.
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UW partners in new postdoctoral program to diversify the science and engineering faculty at America’s research universities
UW is attempting to combat the severe underrepresentation of minorities in science and engineering faculty through a new postdoctoral program.
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People are more likely to believe sexual harassment claims from women who are young and ‘conventionally attractive,’ UW study says
When two University of Washington researchers asked people to draw two women — one likely to be sexually harassed, and one who would never find herself in such a position — the results were clear: Looks are everything. The UW's Cheryl Kaiser, professor of psychology, Bryn Bandt-Law, a doctoral student in psychology, are quoted. Jin Goh, a former postdoctoral researcher at the UW now at Colby College, is mentioned.