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With higher education being pressure-tested by financial strains, technological advances, and shifts in the cultural and demographic landscape, there are key questions we must address to ensure the benefits it brings to this nation and its many and varied communities for the future. 

The once small college campus gallery has grown into an eminent artistic center within the Pacific Northwest and a museum for contemporary art and ideas, at the fingertips of students and local residents alike. Given the growth it’s experienced, the Henry, and arts as a whole, continue to provide a unique, non-textbook way to engage and learn about the complex human experiences around us. 

Happy almost-Valentines day to all who celebrate.Its a time for love, of course. For fancy dinners. Cute notes. And hopefully, for some, a time for intimacy. We review some of the research, and get some advice, on our burning questions about sex, love and relationships. Nicole McNichols, associate teaching professor of psychology at the UW, is interviewed.

Under the Trump administrations aggressive deportation agenda, federal immigration agents have been granted an arsenal of surveillance tools to deploy against migrants and citizens. Angelina Godoy, professor of law, societies, and justice and of international studies, as well as director of the Center for Human Rights at the UW, is quoted.

For Valentines Day, relationship experts share a few ways to show our partners that we care. Nicole McNichols, associate teaching professor of psychology at the UW, is quoted.

Indira allegra, the Jacob Lawrence Gallery’s 2026 Legacy Resident, held a reception for their exhibition “The Book of Zero” on Feb. 4. Their time in the School of Art culminated in a multimedia meditative experience focused on cycles of death and rebirth, encouraging participants to let go of what no longer serves them before allowing an era of healing to unfold. 

Kyle Haddad-Fonda, a part-time lecturer of history at the University of Washington, is teaching "Modern Olympic Games" this quarter. The course covers subjects ranging from ideology and national identity to race and the position of women in society.

You cant escape Valentines Day, a social and retail ritual involving exchanges of cards, flowers, chocolates, candy, and an exhaustive, sometimes expensive list of other gifts, many in eye-searing blasts of red and pink. Pepper Schwartz, professor emerita of sociology at the UW, is quoted.

About 100 people rallied on the morning of Feb. 7 exactly 140 years to the day at Hing Hay Park in Seattles Chinatown-International District, where community groups, civic leaders and residents marked the anniversary of the 1886 expulsion that forced more than 350 Chinese residents from their homes and businesses at gunpoint. Connie So, teaching professor of American ethnic studies at the UW, is quoted.

UW News spoke with Lauren Buckley, University of Washington professor of biology, to learn about "functional resurvey" experiments and what they can tell us about how organisms change over time.