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Nearly 800 students and supporters have signed a petition on Change.org hoping to halt plans to repurpose the Physics-Astronomy Reading Room (PARR) into an eScience Data Science Studio.

The term "ivory tower" dates back to the Bible, but when used to describe academia, it's way off base, says Dean Robert Stacey.

UW students and prison inmates met weekly for a senior seminar—a "mixed enrollment" class in which the two groups worked together as peers.

Biology Professor Jay Parrish offers students in BIOL 413 access to his research lab, where they design and conduct their own genetics experiments.

Audiences delighted in a lively Federico García Lorca play, performed entirely in Spanish by students in SPAN 449: Spanish Play Production.

From discussing the creative process with renowned artists to completing their own artworks, students explore creativity in ARTS 250.

For students on a CHID program in Europe, visits with the Roma community (commonly known as Gypsies) challenged persistent stereotypes.

Benjamin Hall, professor emeritus of genome sciences and biology, and Eric D'Asaro, a senior principal oceanographer at the UW's Applied Physics Laboratory and professor of oceanography, are among the 84 new members and 21 foreign associates elected as fellows the National Academy of Sciences.

Todd London - writer, scholar, and current artistic director of New Dramatists in New York--has been named the new Executive Director of the School of Drama at the UW

Tony-nominated director Wilson Milam leads a talented cast of UW undergraduates in a wild, dark and sexy production of Vaclav Havel's savage political satire. Now through May 4.