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As part of a Dance Program course on teaching methods, UW undergraduates traveled to Yakima to teach dance to high school teens involved in the GEAR UP Program. 

In presentations led by deans, students, and faculty, learn about studying in the College of Arts and Sciences. Videos are available on demand.

A doctoral student explains how one online hacker can be more powerful than 10,000 soldiers.

Thanks to a UW internship, students are contributing content about Black leaders in the sciences on BlackPast.org. 

The Biology Department has tested teaching methods that keep students engaged and accountable, even in its 700-student classes. As a result, more students are passing the courses—with better grades—than in past years. 

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.

With space as the final frontier, UW faculty are exploring what's needed to shape peaceful prospects in the space race.

With Hey Mentor, an online mentoring program, Kevin Truong (BA, 2016) is helping students prepare for college. 

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.

Two years ago, biochemist Roy Black had an intriguing theory about the origins of life. One problem: he had nowhere to test it.

Markus Teuton, a musician and citizen of Cherokee Nation, explores contemporary Indigenous music through his academic work and as host of “Indigenous Jazz,” a radio show.

UW mentors inspired Deja Edwards (BA, 2019) to accomplish more than she'd ever imagined.

UW mentors inspired Deja Edwards (BA, 2019) to accomplish more than she'd ever imagined.

As a baseline, most arts faculty at the University of Washington are committed to helping students think creatively about the use of…

As divisional dean, acting on authority delegated by the Dean of Arts and Sciences, Gabriel Solis supervises the schools, departments, centers, and other units and programs administratively located in the College’s Arts Division. He broadly supports those units in their teaching, research, and service, and represents them with respect to personnel matters such as faculty hiring, promotion, retention, merit determination, and the awarding of sabbaticals.

Solis belongs to the College of Arts & Sciences’ executive leadership team and, guided by the Dean, engages in collaborative decision-making and financial and strategic planning on behalf of the College. He serves on the Board of Deans and Chancellors for the UW tri-campus system and represents the Arts Division in a range of University and community initiatives. In all his work, he strives to advance the equity, justice, and inclusion mission of the College and the University. 

A professor of music, Solis is an ethnomusicologist and music historian whose work focuses on music, memory, and racialization in the 20^th and 21^st centuries. He came to the University of Washington in 2022 from the University of Illinois, where he had been a professor of music for 20 years, with affiliate appointments in African American Studies, American Indian Studies, and Anthropology. In previous administrative appointments he has striven to develop research capacity in the arts with a focus on intersections between scholarship and practice, and with a core commitment to building more equitable and inclusive approaches to the arts in higher education.

Solis’s research in jazz, popular music, and contemporary Indigenous music in Australia and Melanesia has been supported by fellowships and grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH), Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC), and Mellon Foundation.

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