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October 1, 2007
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. Read More
October 1, 2007
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. Read More
October 1, 2007
In a new book, Communications professor David Domke looks at important shifts in the use of religion in political messaging, beginning in the 1980s. Read More
July 1, 2007
March 1, 2007
Alumnus Don Logan, who spent years teaching Seattle public schools after earning two history degrees at the UW, has endowed a chair in the Department of History. Read More
March 1, 2007
After 51 years, a Communications Building time capsule will be opened during Washington Weekend, and a new capsule prepared by students will be installed. Read More
March 1, 2007
Tim Egan ('81) has received the National Book Award for nonfiction for a book about the Great American dust bowl. Read More
March 1, 2007
October 1, 2006
UW Professor Jonathan Mayer is "just short of obsessed" with improving health in Nima, a desperately poor neighborhood in Accra, the largest city in Ghana, Africa. Read More
October 1, 2006
Just before graduating last spring, Julia Parker created a community service award for future philosophy students, raising the funds for the award herself. Read More
March 8, 2006
American Indian Studies offers a course on the history and significance of pow wow, which includes working on one of the University's two annual pow wow events. Read More
October 4, 2005
Sociology professor Katherine Stovel studies teens’ sexual behavior and transmission of sexually transmitted diseases. Read More
June 1, 2005
A UW team participating in the National Ethics Bowl, a competition of ethical analysis, finished in first place. Read More
June 1, 2005
Philosophy professor William Talbott’s new book suggests that some rights should be universal, regardless of national, religious, or cultural differences. Read More
October 27, 2003
Award-winning author Sherman Alexie joins the Department of American Ethnic Studies as a senior artist-in-residence. Read More