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A new Classics course looks at conceptions of race in antiquity and how ancient racial categories “put the arbitrariness of race as we know it into relief.”

How do students prepare for a life in music? Faculty and staff in the School of Music discuss the many paths to a music career.

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.

Visit the Arts Divisional Overview to learn more about the College of Arts & Sciences’ Arts Division and ArtsUW for the latest news, events, and initiatives related to the arts on campus.

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As divisional dean, acting on authority delegated by the Dean of Arts and Sciences, Daniel Pollack supervises the departments, centers, and other units and programs administratively located in the College’s Natural Sciences 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.

Pollack 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 Natural Sciences 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 in the Department of Mathematics, Pollack previously served as the interim chair of the Department of Statistics and as chair of the Arts & Sciences College Council. Pollack's areas of research are differential geometry, mathematical general relativity, and partial differential equations. In relativity, he has focused on the study of black holes and initial data for the Einstein equations. These equations lie at the foundation of general relativity, linking the geometry of spacetime with the matter and energy present in the universe.

A native New Yorker, Pollack earned his Ph.D. in mathematics at Stanford University in 1991. He joined the University of Washington in 1996 as an assistant professor, after holding faculty positions at the University of Texas at Austin and the University of Chicago. He has held visiting and research appointments at Brown University, MIT, the Institute for Advanced Study, the Mathematical Sciences Research Institute, and the Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences. He was promoted to full professor in 2006.

Visit the Natural Sciences Divisional Overview to learn more about the College of Arts & Sciences’ Natural Sciences Division.

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For students participating in a simulated negotiation about the Cyprus conflict, the simulation felt very real.

A sampling of recent stories in local and national media featuring College of Arts & Sciences faculty, staff, and alumni.

Industrial design professor Jason O. Germany was part of a team that designed a low-cost ventilator on short notice during the pandemic. 

Identity Unboxed, a podcast created by alums Tiana Cole and Brad Blackburn III, explores the experiences of Black professionals in the Seattle area.

An audio documentary about young activists in the former Soviet Union earns UW faculty a top journalism award.

The College's four Dean's Medalists--the top student in each of the Arts and Sciences' four divisions--have madt of theire the mos UW education, exploring research opportunities and other offerings. The President's Medalist is an A&S student as well. 

Check out opportunities to explore the College of Arts & Sciences from your home through online events, pre-recorded lectures, and more.

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