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Although pay equity for women has improved, men are still paid more for the same work. Why is the problem even worse in King County than elsewhere?

"A major detractor to Americans’ sex lives has been the rising necessity of the two-income family, said Pepper Schwartz, a sociology professor at the University of Washington."

UW School of Art faculty member Akio Takamori, a renowned local ceramics artist, completed his final body of work just a day before dying from pancreatic cancer.

Scientific research that doesn't get communicated to the public may as well not have happened at all, says Scott Montgomery in his updated book, "The Chicago Guide to Communicating Science."

Kozo Yamamura, who taught Japan studies at the Jackson School, died on Feb. 15, 2017. A prolific scholar, he wrote and edited scores of books and articles on the Japanese economy and its history.

Center for Conservation Biology director Dr. Sam Wasser comments on how DNA mapping illegal ivory can illustrate its wider connections to drug trafficking rings. 

This week’s discovery of seven planets around a distant star has a connection right here at the University of Washington. The star is called TRAPPIST-1 and the scientist is Eric Agol.

UW professor Quintard Taylor is blowing students’ minds in class and with his website devoted to black history.

Cluster, their concept which received $85,000 and Amazon product development support, is an online suite of composition tools using comics narratives to teach effective, situated writing.

In April, thousands of scientists will take to the streets to rally on behalf of publicly funded, openly communicated, evidence-based research.