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  • Searching for Clues in the Kuril Islands

    A team of UW faculty and students, along with Russian and Japanese colleagues, are piecing together a history of the isolated Kuril Islands by studying its archaeological, geological, and biological record. 

    October 2007 Perspectives
  • Journalism Goes Global

    Journalism students spent the summer interning at English-language newspapers abroad--in Sierra Leone, Indonesia, and China--through an unusual scholarship in the UW Department of Communication. 

    October 2007 Perspectives
  • Mixing Art and Nature at Willapa Bay

    The Willapa National Wildlife Refuge includes artworks created by UW students enrolled in a UW public art course. 

    October 2007 Perspectives
  • Finding the Funny

    Drake Witham ('96) has taken his stand-up act to Seattle's Bumbershoot Festival, Comedy Central's Live at Gotham, and U.S. military bases in Iraq. 

    October 2007 Perspectives
  • The Escalating Role of Religion in Politics

    In a new book, Communications professor David Domke looks at important shifts in the use of religion in political messaging, beginning in the 1980s. 

    October 2007 Perspectives
  • Exploring the Sky on the Web

    October 2007 Perspectives
  • Salsa Dance

    Juliet McMains, assistant professor of dance, studies the rise in salsa’s popularity and its transformation over time.

    July 2007 Perspectives
  • Dream Student, Dream Project

    UW junior Alula Asfaw dreamed up The Dream Project, through which undergrads help first-generation, low-income high school students navigation the college application process..

    July 2007 Perspectives
  • Science by Kayak

    UW students and sixth graders at TOPS, a K-8 school, conduct water quality experiments in the classroom and then in kayaks on Lake Washington. 

    July 2007 Perspectives