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Developing EJI-Focused Course Materials through Workshops and Small-Group Cohort Support …

Faculty and students across the College of Arts & Sciences are working at the leading edge of AI, understood as a wide array of…

Beyond the broad college involvement in AI research, we are experimenting with new ways to prepare students for a future in which AI is…

Think of it as Habitat for Penguinity. Working with Parque Nacional Galápagos, Dee Boersma is behind the effort to build nests in the barren rocks of the Galápagos Islands in the hope of increasing the population of an endangered penguin species. Boersma is a UW professor of biology and Wadsworth Endowed Chair in Conservation Science.

The Humanities Division in the College of Arts & Sciences has several different loci for engagement with emergent AI technologies, in…

As associate dean for undergraduate education, Kevin Mihata coordinates undergraduate policy and practice, advising, and curriculum across the four divisions of the College of Arts & Sciences, and coordinates between Arts & Sciences and other colleges and units across the University.

Mihata is also the founding director of C21, whose mission is to reimagine the liberal arts student journey through experiences as diverse as study abroad programs to Spain and Japan, a liberal arts hackathon, a four-week introduction to college exclusively for incoming first-year students, and a pre-professional externship partnership with Microsoft and Amazon. C21 also houses the College’s early career laboratory, gesture, which offers an intensive pre-professional bootcamp, workshops on professional and personal story, and an online video series, all focused on early career skills specific to CAS graduates.

Mihata has been at UW for more than 25 years, completing his Ph.D. in sociology before moving to the College of Arts & Sciences Dean’s Office. He has taught courses in social psychology, culture, research methods, and storytelling with data, and launched the Sociology Practicum program, placing sociology majors in applied projects with external partners, including nonprofit organizations and government agencies.

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The number of Latino voters in the U.S. has been growing steadily over the past two decades. Professor Matt Barreto, an expert on Latino politics, shares his insights on Latino voters' influence in the upcoming election.

A&S students interested in pursuing an academic minor can choose from dozens of options, including seven interdisciplinary minors in fields ranging from diversity to education to human rights.

Professor Ann Nelson, who held the Kenneth K. Young Chair of Physics and was a tireless advocate for diversity in the field, died from a fall while backpacking in the Alpine Lakes Wilderness on August 4, 2019. Professor Nelson was a brilliant theoretical physicist who specialized in particle physics and cosmology and had been at the University of Washington since 1994. She was a member of the National Academy of Sciences and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and was a recipient of the J.J. Sakurai prize for theoretical particle physics from the American Physical Society.

The University of Washington College of Arts and Sciences (CAS) has announced two new leadership appointments. Candice Rai, UW professor of English and faculty coordinator of the UW in the High School writing program, has been appointed to serve as CAS Associate Dean for Undergraduate Education. Anis Bawarshi, the Thomas L. & Margo G. Wyckoff Endowed Professor of English, has been appointed to serve as Director of the C21 Program. 

UW undergraduates in the Legislative Internship Program spend winter quarter in Olympia, learning the intricacies of state politics as they intern for legislators. 

When the economy floundered, Chinese migrant workers were among the largest casualties globally, in part because of a Maoist-era institution known as hukou that continues to function in China today, creating two levels of citizenship.

Danni Lin (2011, 2013) finds her statistics and computational finance & risk management degrees helpful as a wine entrepreneur in the US and China. 

Chemistry professor Alshakim Nelson and his research team use 3D-printing technology to develop new materials with potential real-world applications in medicine, engineering, and sustainability.

“Chinese pre-modern history is a field that holds invaluable lessons for today's world.” And the study of that period is alive and well at the University of Washington thanks to a generous $1.5 million gift from the Tang Research Foundation to establish a professorship in Pre-Modern Chinese History.