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Chinese parents go to court seeking to register 2nd children
Wan Changru's 6-year-old daughter is legally unregistered because her parents broke China's one-child policy in having her. Kam Wing Chan, a geography professor, is quoted.
12/07/2015 | CBS News -
UW project focuses on fines and fees that create ‘prisoners of debt’
The $3.9 million project, funded by the Laura and John Arnold Foundation, will be the first systematic study of how multiple states implement court-imposed fees.
12/04/2015 | UW Today -
Inventive Messiah at Meany
Handel's Messiah gets a twist in a production at Meany Hall presented by the UW School of Music and Pacific MusicWorks.
December 2015 Perspectives -
NY Times ranks professor's book among notable 100
The book, The Shape of the New: Four Big Ideas and How They Made the Modern World, explores how capitalism, socialism, evolution and liberal democracy broke decisively with the past.12/02/2015 | Jackson School -
Here’s how to make government care about black lives
"The past two years of racial unrest have made clear these protests are not going away," writes Megan Ming Francis, assistant professor of political science at the UW.
12/02/2015 | Washington Post -
UW roboticists learn to teach robots from babies
A collaboration between UW developmental psychologists and computer scientists aims to enable robots to learn in the same way that children naturally do.12/01/2015 -
UW sociology professors part of White House, DOJ events on criminal justice reform
This week, the White House and Department of Justice are bringing together researchers at events on the criminal justice system. Two University of Washington sociologists are among the participants.11/30/2015 | UW Today -
Twenty-one-year-old political science student elected to city council position
Voters overwhelmingly chose Russell Wiita, 21, as Sultan’s newest councilman. He is a senior majoring in political science.11/30/2015 | HeraldNet -
The new race to dominate outer space
Professor Saadia M. Pekkanen’s contribution to Forbes scrutinizes the “counterspace” technologies of countries around the world.
11/27/2015 | Forbes -
Professor Pat Bajari elected Econometric Society fellow
One of only 13 Fellows elected this year to lifetime appointments, Professor Bajari joins an elite group of economic researchers from around the world.
11/25/2015 | Department of Economics