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Remembrance photography can provide grieving parents with lasting memories of their children's all-too-brief lives. Faustine Dufka explores how such photography can play a role in the grieving process.

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.

A&S alumni, faculty, and students who are passionate about film share their favorite flicks.

Filmmaker Lynn Shelton talks about her late start in filmmaking and her newest feature, Touchy Feely.