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New research led by the University of Washington challenges the 140-year-old assumption that prehistoric mammals such as horses, rhinos and gazelles lived in grasslands.

University of Washington School of Drama Professor Mark Jenkins is the 2013 recipient of the ACT New Play Award for his play, "Red Earth, Gold Gate, Shadow Sky."

It began as a modest resource to address students' frequently asked questions, but Professor Quintard Taylor's BlackPast.org website now attracts 2.8 million visitors a year with its trusted information about African American history.

Martha Gonzalez and her band Quetzal won a 2013 Grammy for their album Imaginaries. Her work as a recording artist is intertwined with her academic work as a PhD candidate in Gender, Women & Sexuality Studies.

Jim Riswold (1983), whose hugely popular ad campaigns for Nike and other top clients featured household names like Michael Jordan and Bugs Bunny, was recently inducted into advertising's Creative Hall of Fame.

For 50 years, the School of Music's Ethnomusicology Program has advanced the study of music and culture, and has brought world music to Seattle through its Visiting Artist Program.

A&S alumni and siblings Gary and Carver Gayton have led extraordinary lives, following in the footsteps of their great grandfather Lewis Clarke, who escaped slavery to become a well-known abolitionist.

A century ago, plastic was an exciting new discovery. Now it is used everywhere, from toys to food containers to medical supplies. The Burke Museum's Plastics Unwrapped exhibit explores our complicated relationship with plastic.

In a recent TED talk at Caltech, Michael Dickinson—UW biology professor, A&S alumnus, and MacArthur Fellow—spoke passionately and with humor about his research into insect brains and flight.

Drama leads this week's busy UW arts schedule, if by a nose, with the Undergraduate Theater Society's staging of the Cyrano de Bergerac story and the School of Drama's production of "Pentecost" - a play about art, which ought to count double.