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  • Celebrating Pride Month

    Celebrate Pride Month and the history, progress and power of the LGBTQIA+ community through a collection of works by College of Arts & Sciences faculty, students and alumni.

    06/01/2022
  • A Digital Life for Print Texts

    While studying the impact of the digital revolution on texts, students created digital editions using print publications in UW Special Collections.

    April 2022 Perspectives
  • Dianne Harris named dean of UW College of Arts & Sciences

    University of Washington Provost Mark A. Richards today announced Dianne Harris will become dean of the College of Arts & Sciences, beginning Sept. 1.

    UW News
  • ArtSci Roundup: Exhibitions at The Henry Art Gallery, From ‘Permit Patty’ to ‘Karen’: Black Rearticulations of Racial Humor, and More

    This week at the UW, attend a talk on Gender in the E.U, visit the Henry Art Gallery, and more.

    UW News
  • A People's Song Upon the Waters

    Maya Angela Smith, associate professor of French and Italian studies, discusses the African American roots of the sea chantey.

    Zocalo Public Square
  • Enunciating Power: Amanda Gorman and My Battle With Claiming My Voice

    “I caught the live telecast [of the presidential inauguration] just as Amanda Gorman was set to recite her soul-stirring poem ‘The Hill We Climb.’ As she took the stage, radiant in her bright yellow jacket and red headpiece, the morning’s frustrations began to recede. And when she gifted us her words, I could feel the nation let out a collective sigh of relief after four years of weathering trauma,” writes Maya Smith, associate professor of French and Italian studies at the UW.

    Yes! Magazine
  • The Value of a Non-STEM Major, with Dean Stacey

    College of Arts & Sciences Dean Stacey explains that there is an important civic, political, social, and cultural element to an education and that you can get that in a wide variety of majors.

    01/05/2021
  • Six unique majors that may not be on your radar

    Interested in the College of Arts & Sciences but don’t know what to study? Here are six majors that you may not have discovered yet.

    The Daily
  • UW books in brief: Chinese funerary biographies, skin lighteners through history, NYC neighborhood gentrification study, Arthurian verse-novel in translation

    Recent notable books by University of Washington faculty members look at gentrification and inequity in a New York neighborhood, skin lighteners though history, female agency in Arthurian legend and biographical epitaphs in China across many centuries.

    UW News
  • OPINION: Black Life is Disrupted

    UW students, alumni, and faculty explain how COIVD-19 has disrupted Black life.

    South Seattle Emerald
  • As a Black mother-to-be, I’m already full of heartache

    Maya Angela Smith, associate professor of French, writes about her experience as a Black mother-to-be.

    The Boston Globe
  • From Paris to Penguins

    French and oceanography major Anna Sulc has traveled the world for her humanities and biology research. 

    June 2020 Perspectives
  • A Life Study

    Grace Flott (BA, International Studies | French, 2013) shares her experiences in expressing grief, trauma, and disability through artwork.

    UW Magazine
  • ArtsUW Roundup: Visit the Burke Museum, attend a Sankai Juku performance, and more.

    This week in the arts, attend a Washin Kai recital in classical Japanese, listen to the musical musings of Indigo Mist, converse over coffee, and more.

    UW News
  • Students & Superlatives

    Eight exceptional Arts & Sciences students have been selected as 2019 Dean's Medalists and Graduate Medalists.

    August 2019 Perspectives

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