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Dee Boersma is the first UW faculty member nominated for the Indianapolis Prize thanks to her lifetime work studying and advocating for penguins in South America.

Victoria Meadows, director of the UW's Virtual Planetary Laboratory, discusses whether oxygen in an exoplanet's atmosphere is a sign of living beings.

“Many Pentecostals have a broader and deeper commitment to equality than most liberal Protestants,” said James Wellman, chairman of the University of Washington’s comparative religion program.

Twelve political gurus discuss one of the most pressing questions of 2016. Margaret O'Mara, associate professor of history at the UW, is featured. 

After several leaders from the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge occupation were arrested the alarm was sounded on social media. Phil Howard, professor of communication at the UW, is quoted.

In the Iowa caucuses, expectations are nearly as important as votes, say University of Washington professors who are closely watching this year’s presidential race.

I-LABS' Patricia Kuhl helps explain how infants acquire language skills – by losing their ability to discriminate sounds they don’t need.

 "The role of the armed forces in shaping events is at once obvious and mysterious," writes Ellis Goldberg, professor emeritus of political science at the UW. 

UW Biology's Dee Boersma explains how a quick photo of cute penguin can make a big difference for conservation work.

UW Biology's Ben Wiggins details how implicit bias negatively impacts classroom setting and what faculty can do to change that.