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Implicit bias: Online test captures our hidden attitudes on race
Anthony Greenwald, professor emeritus of psychology at the UW, discusses how the Implicit Association Test can be used as an educational and informational tool for better understanding.
09/20/2020 | King 5 -
Trump and McConnell's Supreme Court plan justifies anything the Democrats do in 2021
Scott Lemieux, political science lecturer, explains the implications of when governance norms are broken.
09/20/2020 | NBC News -
Dinosaurs and more: Burke Museum gives members a peek before it reopens to the public
The Seattle Times shares photos from a member preview event at the UW's Burke Museum. The museum opens to the public on Tuesday.
09/19/2020 | The Seattle Times -
Dinosaurs and more: Burke Museum gives members a peek before it reopens to the public
The Burke Museum will be re-opening to the public soon, with social distanicng measures in place.
09/19/2020 | The Seattle Times -
The Year of Fire and Burning Air
"As I write, my city has been invaded. It is the month when Seattle weather normally gleams with clarity, yet my throat burns and the trees at the end of the block are being dissolved by a Martian haze. Across the street, my neighbor’s house appears as if in a grainy sepia photograph. I can only think that the atmosphere has materialized for us what an excess of carbon really feels like," writes Scott Montgomery, lecturer of international studies at the UW.
09/18/2020 | The Global Policy Journal -
6 ways mail-in ballots are protected from fraud
"One of us is a political scientist at the University of Washington, and the other is a former elections commissioner who now studies voting laws. We can explain why voter fraud is so rare – especially for mail-in ballots," write Jake Grumbach, assistant professor of political science at the UW, and Charlotte Hill, of the University of California Berkeley.
09/17/2020 | The Conversation -
From Washington to Trump, all presidents have told lies (but only some have told them for the right reasons)
"A recent survey of presidential deception found that all American presidents – from Washington to Trump – have told lies, knowingly, in their public statements. As a political philosopher, with a focus on how people try to reason together through political disagreement, I argue that not all lies are the same," writes Michael Blake, professor of philosophy and of public policy and governance at the UW.
09/17/2020 | The Conversation -
Meet KUOW's Summer 2020 RadioActive youth producers
Emily Chua, freshman, is a Summer 2020 producer for KUOW's RadioActive.
09/17/2020 | KUOW -
A BODY IN MOTION
Louis Maliyam, ’21, came to the U.S. for computer science — and along the way discovered dance.
09/15/2020 | University of Washington -
UW political scientist Megan Ming Francis named one of 12 grant-supported ‘Freedom Scholars’ for work on economic and social equity
Megan Ming Francis, University of Washington associate professor of political science, has been named one of 12 grant-supported “Freedom Scholars” in a new $3 million initiative by the Marguerite Casey Foundation and Group Health Foundation, working together. Scholars are recognized for work “shifting the balance of power to families and communities that have been historically excluded from the resources and benefits of society.”
09/15/2020 | UW News