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Imagining the Future of Higher Education & the Liberal Arts
The Futurists, a group of Arts & Science faculty and leadership, are exploring the possibilities for higher education and the liberal arts many decades from now.
You Discover You're on Camera. Now What?
A growing number of people use surveillance cameras inside their home. Interaction design professor James Pierce explores how others spending time in the home are affected.
An Earful of AI
Hearing aid technology is improving all the time with the help of AI and researchers like Shen Yi, professor of speech & hearing sciences.
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Analysis: Sudans civil war: What military advances mean, and where the country could be heading next
The Conversation turned to Christopher Tounsel, associate professor of history at the UW, to explain what the war has cost and where it could turn now. -
Analysis: The enduring power of the Omoro Sshi
"Songs are not mere entertainment if we consider the case of Japan. There, they can be the very essence of life itself," writes Davinder Bhowmik, a UW associate professor of Asian languages and literature. -
UW professor battles a direct, frontal assault on Black history
When Quintard Taylor, professor emeritus of history at the UW, launched BlackPast in 2007, he didnt realize attacks on history would make the site as necessary as it has proved to be.
UW Arts Events
Upcoming College of Arts & Sciences Events
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8th Annual Lee Scheingold Lecture in Poetry and Poetics (Department of English)
04/02/20253:30 p.m -
College of Arts & Sciences: The Big Read 2025
04/07/20252:00 p.m