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Dress up your Zoom meetings and show your Arts & Sciences school spirit with our digital swag collection.

Music Assistant Professor Anne Searcy's research explores the connections between music, politics and dance.

“General chemistry has a terrible reputation on most college campuses. It’s seen as a killer—a place where dreams of careers in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) go to die. Now the data have spoken, and their message is clear: The bad rep is justified. And the numbers are especially bleak for students who are underrepresented in STEM,” writes Scott Freeman, teaching professor emeritus in biology at the UW.

This week at the UW, join online events ranging in topics from population health to contempary race and politics in the United States.

Alexes Harris, professor of sociology at the UW, weighs in on the divide between police and communities of color and what she says are the best ways to fix it.

From studios in the University and Fremont bridge towers, two local illustrators — E.T. Russian, a physical therapist at the UW Medical Center, and Roger Fernandes, a lecturer of American Indian studies at the UW — draw attention to the region’s history.

Shawn Wong is longtime University of Washington professor of English, but he is also an editor, novelist, screenwriter and activist on behalf of Asian American writers whose voices have been forgotten or marginalized by history.

On Monday afternoon, the Huskies men’s and women’s basketball teams canvassed the UW campus urging folks to register for the upcoming November elections. They wore black T-shirts with a QR code that read: “Scan me. Register to vote.” UW Men’s Basketball Coach Mike Hopkins and UW student Hameir Wright are quoted. Alexes Harris, professor of sociology at the UW, is mentioned.

From studios in the University and Fremont bridge towers, two local illustrators — E.T. Russian, a physical therapist at the UW Medical Center, and Roger Fernandes, a lecturer of American Indian studies at the UW — draw attention to the region’s history.

University of Washington faculty member Ian Schnee, associate teaching professor in the Department of Philosophy, was the featured speaker at the UW’s 37th annual New Student Convocation.