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This December, Sven Haakanson Jr., curator of North American Anthropology at the Burke Museum, is creating a full-size replica of an Angyaaq, the Native boat made by the Sugpiat of Alaska.

Sarah Nash Gates, former executive director of the UW School of Drama, was a longtime leader in the Seattle theater community.

Conservation dogs sniff out endangered species.

The evolution of place's names in the Seattle area. Matt Sparke, professor of geography and international studies at the UW, is mentioned. 

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. 

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.

Handel's Messiah gets a twist in a production at Meany Hall presented by the UW School of Music and Pacific MusicWorks.

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.

"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.

A collaboration between UW developmental psychologists and computer scientists aims to enable robots to learn in the same way that children naturally do.