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  • UW athlete overcomes blindness to compete at the highest level

    KOMO profiles UW social sciences student Eleni Englert, a member of the women's crew team who has a degenerative eye disease and is legally blind.
    05/07/2013 | KOMO-TV ABC 4
  • India rapes show gender inequality persists despite economic growth

    In an op-ed piece, Joshua Eastin, a UW PhD candidate in political science, and Aseem Prakash, a UW professor of political science, argue that economic growth has not necessarily empowered women in India.
    05/04/2013 | The Seattle Times
  • Public and Provocative: Sanctum at the Henry

    Sanctum, an installation outside the Henry Art Gallery, brings viewer engagement to a whole new level as it combines social media, surveillance technology, and LCD monitors to create a provocative, ever-changing artwork.

    May 2013 Perspectives
  • Rethinking Research: What's Ethics Got to Do With It?

    When scientists studying the deadly H5N1 “bird flu” virus reengineered it to be transmissible in humans, the potential for the virus to become a public security threat intensified.

    May 2013 Perspectives
  • Cap and Gown and Pointe Shoes

    After years of balancing UW studies with a demanding full-time dance career, Pacific Northwest Ballet dancer Leah O'Connor will earn a bachelor's degree in sociology in June.

    May 2013 Perspectives
  • Astronomer Discovers Earth-like Planet

    It's not move-in ready, but an Earth-like planet was recently discovered by a UW astronomer using the Kepler Space Telescope. The planet, Kepler 62f, is outside the solar system.

    May 2013 Perspectives
  • Weekday: Winning the White House in 2016 - Rule 5

    Are presidents today more empathetic than they were in the past? UW department of communication chair and professor David Domke explains why that is the expectation now and how it is different from the past.
    05/01/2013 | KUOW
  • Portable planetarium offers night sky view in Forks

    University of Washington astronomy students will offer residents a closer look into the sky with a their mobile planetarium -- a fully functional planetarium that offers many of the same images as the high-tech version at the UW.
    04/30/2013 | Port Angeles Peninsula Daily News
  • Dinosaur predecessors gain ground in wake of world's biggest biodiversity crisis

    Newly discovered fossils from 10 million years after the mass extinction reveal a lineage of animals thought to have led to dinosaurs taking hold in Tanzania and Zambia in the mid-Triassic period, many millions of years before dinosaur relatives were seen in the fossil record elsewhere on Earth.
    04/29/2013 | UW Today
  • How we talk about the Boston Marathon bombing and why it matters

    Sandra Silberstein, professor of English, comments on the use of language in the aftermath of the Boston Marathon bombing.
    04/25/2013 | Time.com