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Kathryn Bunn-Marcuse, Assistant Professor of Art History, explains that there's no history of towering monumental poles being made by the Salish and other Puget Sound region tribes.

For years, alumnus Bill Lord suppressed memories of fighting in Vietnam. Now he explores that period of his life in a new book. 

The University of Washington College of Arts & Sciences and the Office of Minority Affairs & Diversity (OMA&D) announced that the Sara Little Turnbull Foundation has made a $200,000 gift to benefit underrepresented minority, low-income and first-generation students pursuing design degrees within the School of Art + Art History + Design.

An international team of scientists, including some from the UW, have virtually reconstructed a Neandertal skeleton–shedding new light on the posture of ancient humans. 

A paper published in the Royal Society’s journal Interface explores the effects of seawater on protein-based adhesives produced by marine mussels (bivalve mollusks). According to the study conducted by UW researchers, low pH and oxygen conditions in seawater cause the mussel’s adhesive plaques to weaken.

Opinion piece by UW Department of History Professor, Margaret O'Mara.

International cybersecurity expert, Dr. Jessica Beyer, weighs in on potential motivations for election hacking. 

UW archeologist, Ben Marwick, weighs in on a recent discovery.

As the discipline of American Indian studies approaches its 50th year at the UW, a new research center is in the works:

UW physicist Jiun-Haw Chu named Packard Fellow for research on quantum materials.