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Amazon's Jeff Bezos talks innovation with UW educator
Communication Leadership director, Hanson Hosein sat down with Amazon founder Jeff Bezos to talk about innovation and why the company doesn't really care about it's competitors.09/17/2013 | GeekWire -
Alum opens two films on the same day
Films "Mother of George" and "Blue Caprice" were both produced by UW alum Ron Simons. Both are reviewed in the New York Times.09/13/2013 | The New York Times -
Arts & Sciences faculty named to state academy of sciences
Professors of mathematics, chemistry, and sociology were named to the Washington State Academy of Sciences.09/13/2013 | UW Today -
The artist with the race car in his studio
Rigorously considered, unapologetically masculine and over-the-top ambitious, UW alumnus Matthew Day Jackson's art breaks all boundaries: collaborator and employee, home and work, life and death.09/13/2013 | The New York Times -
Arts Roundup
The Henry Art Gallery and Jacob Lawrence Gallery have new exhibits and the Burke Museum is offering a unique look at New Zealand.09/12/2013 | UW Today -
Why Obama shouldn't care about backing down on Syria
The University of Washington's Jonathan Mercer's book, "Reputation and International Politics," finds that there is no predictable effect of backing down in crisis.09/12/2013 | The Washington Post -
Dance Performances for fall 2013
Dance performances around the Puget Sound area through September-November, including performances by the UW World Series and Dance Program09/11/2013 | The Seattle Times -
Encouraging Young Philosophers in Oaxaca
Philosophy graduate student Amy Reed-Sandoval has spent the past three summers leading a philosophy program for children in Oaxaca, Mexico, guiding conversations on everything from individual rights to the nature of happiness.
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Hands-on Course in Agroecology
Students learned about agroecology from the ground up—literally—as they worked with farmers in an unusual and isolated high-altitude farming community in the Upper Rio Grande.September 2013 Perspectives -
Exploring Sephardic—and Seattle—History
A set of letters dating back to the 1940s led Devin Naar to study the history of Sephardic Jews. Now he heads the UW's Sephardic Studies Initiative and oversees an archive of Sephardic materials that is among the nation's largest.
September 2013 Perspectives