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  • The Frye Museum: Seattle's art world MVP

    First Hill's Frye Art Museum is the best-kept secret right under everyone's nose. Its newest exhibit includes private journals, prints and manifestos by UW art students.
    04/25/2013 | crosscut.com
  • Astronomer studies far-off worlds through 'characterization by proxy'

    UW astronomer Sarah Ballard is using Earth's interstellar neighbors to learn the nature of certain stars too far away to be directly measured or observed, and the planets they may host.
    04/25/2013 | UW Today
  • UW student, alumnus among national dissertation winners

    University of Washington doctoral candidate Maria Quintana (History) and alumnus Samuel Anderson (Anthropology, '00) are among the Charlotte W. Newcombe Doctoral Dissertation Fellows for 2013, awarded each year by the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation.
    04/24/2013 | Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation
  • What Does Modern Prejudice Look Like?

    In a new book, Blindspot: Hidden Biases of Good People, Anthony Greenwald, a social psychologist at the University of Washington, and co-author Mahzarin Banaji turn the conventional way people think about prejudice on its head.
    04/23/2013 | NPR.org
  • UW jazz students take off the gown, go out on the town

    ImpFest V features guitarist Bill Frisell, bassist Eric Revis, trumpeter Cuong Vu and drummer Ted Poor in various combinations with their jazz students at the University of Washington.
    04/23/2013 | Seattle Times
  • Professor Hellmann discusses North Korean posturing

    Donald Hellmann, a professor in the Jackson School of International Studies, weighs in on North Korea's recent threats against the U.S., Japan, and South Korea on KUOW's Weekday, hosted by Steve Scher (first 15 minutes of program).
    04/19/2013 | KUOW Weekday
  • UW astronomer finds planet that may hold life

    A team of astronomers announced that they've identified two earth-like planets orbiting a star not too unlike our own. Eric Agol, associate professor of astronomy, is one of the paper's authors.
    04/19/2013 | Geek Wire
  • HuskyFest, Earth Day activities fill Red Square Friday

    Join in Friday during HuskyFest and kick-off activities for Earth Day.
    04/18/2013 | UW Today
  • Astronomers discover five-planet system with most Earthlike exoplanet yet

    A University of Washington astronomer has discovered perhaps the most Earth-like planet yet found outside the solar system by the Kepler Space Telescope.
    04/18/2013 | UW Today
  • Wes Kovarik awarded 2013 Harold W. Rosenthal Fellowship

    Wes Kovarik (JSIS MAIS/JD 2014), is one of 23 graduate-student recipients of the Harold W. Rosenthal Fellowship. He will spend the summer working in the Washington, D.C., office of U.S. Rep. Jim McDermott (D-WA).
    04/18/2013 | Jackson School of International Studies