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Exploring the World — and Global Careers
International studies major Grace Kelly has explored the world, including study abroad experiences in Vietnam and Madrid and an internship with the State Department.
Making Art, Making Connections
Art major Kyra Wolfenbarger has been a researcher, museum intern, and arts writer at the UW. What’s shaped her most are the people she’s met along the way.
The Challenge of Peer-Produced Websites
Professor Benjamin Mako Hill studies why successful peer-produced websites like Wikipedia eventually struggle to maintain their openness to new contributors.
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UW helps bring the cosmos into focus as the Vera C. Rubin Observatory unveils a new glimpse into the solar system
A new era of astronomy and astrophysics began Monday when the first images captured by the NSFDOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory were released, demonstrating the extraordinary capabilities of the new telescope and the worlds largest digital camera.
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Mount Rainiers glaciers are melting whats at stake?
Once an eight-mile network of caves with an entrance in the lower part of Paradise Glacier, the Paradise ice caves were the most-visited tourist spot for decades before glacial melting caused large chunks of ice to begin to fall from the ceiling, endangering visitors and pushing officials to close access. Now, the caves are gone. Janneke Hille Ris Lambers, affiliate professor of biology at the UW, is quoted.
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The man who invented the modern zoo tested out his ideas on people first
Carl Hagenbeck believed that animals should be housed in habitats that mimicked their natural environment. Earlier, hed followed the same guiding philosophy when exhibiting Indigenous people in human zoos. Karen S. Emmerman, affiliate instructor of philosophy at the UW, is quoted.
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