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Angelina Godoy, director of the Center for Human Rights, explains how detainees are being held in close conditions despite the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic.

Jane Simoni, professor of psychology at the UW, talks about the mental health challenges people are experiencing during the winter amidst the pandemic. [Segment begins at :25.]

George Rodriguez (MFA 3D4M 2009) is one of five artists featured in the 12/11/20 Storytellers episode of the PBS Craft in America series.

Professor Curt Labitzke adpated his popular course for the virtual environment.

As chief historian for the National Park Service, Turkiya Lowe (PhD, History, 2010) helps bring history to life.

The classical-music world was counting on Beethoven’s 250th birthday this year as a major selling point. But coronavirus started wreaking its havoc, and countless Beethoven-related events had to be scuttled — or adapted on the fly to constraints no one could have predicted. The UW's Jeffrey Fracé, associate professor of acting; Cristina Valdés, artist in residence in the School of Music; and Rachael Lincoln, assistant professor of dance, are mentioned.

Margaret O'Mara, professor of history at the UW, comments on the antitrust lawsuits against Facebook, and Aseem Prakash, professor of political science at the UW, comments on Amazon's Climate Pledge.

The Conservation Canines program, which is part of the UW Center for Conservation Biology, trains dogs in what might seem at first to be unusual detective work: tracking wild animal scat. Deborah Giles, a research scientist at the center, and Sam Wasser, research professor of biology at the UW and director of the center, are quoted.

Amazon said it has become the world’s largest corporate purchaser of renewable energy after signing agreements Thursday to purchase energy from 26 wind and solar projects around the world. Stuart Adler, associate professor of chemical engineering at the UW and energy storage researcher at the UW Clean Energy Institute, is quoted.

At its final colloquium, the Henry Art Gallery invites academics from the UW and other institutions "to think beyond species."