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  • A Pacific Connection, Museum Style

    The Burke Museum served as matchmaker and mentor for a project linking museums in Suquamish, Washington and Palawan Island, Philippines.

    August 2014 Perspectives
  • The Role of a Lifetime

    Sarah Nash Gates reflects on two memorable decades as executive director of the School of Drama and welcomes successor Todd London.

    August 2014 Perspectives
  • The Middle East Crisis and the U.S.

    Professor Joel Migdal sheds light on the Middle East conflict and the U.S. role there in his book Shifting Sands.

    August 2014 Perspectives
  • Prehistoric Emotions in the Modern World

    Fear spiders and love sweets? Blame it on your Pleistocene ancestors. Professor Emeritus Gordon Orians explains the connection in a new book.

    August 2014 Perspectives
  • Exploring the link between unemployment and crime

    Here & Now's Jeremy Hobson talks to Robert Crutchfield, a professor of sociology at UW, and author of the book, "Get a Job: Labor Markets, Economic Opportunity, and Crime" about the increasing stratification of the labor market, and the connections between unemployment and crime.
    08/01/2014 | KUOW.org
  • 'Hold These Truths': Absorbing account of civil disobedience

    A review of Jeanne Sakata's one-man play about Gordon Hirabayashi, a Seattle native, and alumni of the College of Arts & Sciences, who defied internment of Japanese Americans during WWII.
    08/01/2014 | The Seattle Times
  • New protein structure could help treat Alzheimer's, related diseases

    UW bioengineers designed a peptide structure that can stop changes of normal proteins to a state linked to diseases such as Alzheimer's.
    07/30/2014 | UW Today
  • Babies want to speak as early as 7 months

    New UW research suggests talking to babies stimulates their brain well before they utter their first words.
    07/16/2014 | CNN
  • Hamas and Israel step up cyber battle for hearts and minds

    The latest surge in fighting between Israel and militants in the Gaza Strip has seen both sides revive an intense social media battle. Philip Howard, professor of communication, comments.
    07/15/2014 | BBC
  • When the boss says, 'Don't tell your coworkers how much you get paid'

    As a barista and a paralegal, the story was the same: Employers did not want their employees talking about their pay. Jake Rosenfeld, a UW associate professor of sociology, is studying the relationship between pay secrecy and wage discrimination.
    07/15/2014 | The Atlantic