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Soon after arriving at the UW at 15, Reid Dale (Mathematics, 2014) thrived in graduate-level courses in math and philosophy.

Juliet McMains, assistant professor of dance, studies the rise in salsa’s popularity and its transformation over time.

Working in teams with seniors from the Pike Market Senior Center, students in a course on qualitative research methods learned to embrace the "organized chaos" that is field research.

International studies professor Mary Callahan’s new book is Making Enemies: War and State Building in Burma. 

Sweet Charity, the inaugural production of the UW's new interdisciplinary Musical Theater program, opens November 14.

It's still spring, but it's already time to think about autumn quarter course registration! Check out these cool Arts & Sciences courses to be offered this fall.

Three graduate students who earned doctoral degrees in spring 2023 received the Graduate Medal from the College of Arts & Sciences. 

UW senior Tisbe Rinehart, a wilderness guide for UW adventures, attended a wilderness therapy program as a teen — a difficult experience she explores in her CHID senior thesis.

Students in the course ”Fashion, Nation, and Culture” may never look at a three-piece suit the same way again. Or stilettos. Or any other article of clothing. The course explores Italian culture from the late medieval period through the present day through the study of clothing. 

Professor Anand Yang grew up on Bollywood films. Now he uses this popular entertainment to teach colonial Indian history. 

In the University of Washington’s College of Arts & Sciences, undergraduates are more than students. They are passionate scholars and researchers like UW History and Comparative History of Ideas (CHID) double-major, Jennifer Smith. 

Dean Stacey discusses the role of data science at the UW and plans for more introductory data science courses in the College.

Visitors to Meany Hall for the Performing Arts will soon encounter a new piece of art when they attend an upcoming performance. Walking through the lobby, patrons will be greeted by a 20 foot wide, 8 foot tall original artwork by one of the most influential American artists of the 20^th century, Robert Rauschenberg. Thanks to the generosity of long-time UW supporters, Marsha and Jay Glazer, UW students and the community will now have access to this significant artist and art work.

Photography professor Rebecca Cummins’ artwork at the Montlake branch of the Seattle Public Library is an aperture sundial that beams colorful circles of light into the building.

Craig Nakagawa (’89) is co-founder of VillageReach, an NGO aimed at improving health care distribution systems in the most distant reaches of developing countries, beginning with Mozambique.