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After the Ashes
Eric Wagner (MA, English, '04 | PhD, Biology, '11) shares a portion of his book "After The Blast: The Ecological Recovery of Mount St. Helens."
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Expository Writing Program Receives National Award
UW is the only recipient of the 2020 Conference on College Composition and Communication (CCCC) honor.
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UW’s Race Porter and Myles Gaskin are raising awareness about mental health, one broken heart at a time
Comparative History of Ideas senior Race Porter discusses his apparel company, HOMS, and how he's using it to advocate for mental health.
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Infantilizing babies helps them learn language
Naja Ferjan Ramirez, an assistant professor in linguistics, weighs in on baby talk and a research-backed alternative, "parentese."
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Parentese' is not just baby talk. It boosts baby's language skills
Naja Ferjan Ramírez, assistant professor of linguistics, discusses her new research into "parentese," a new style of baby talk.
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ArtsUW Roundup: a Valentine’s Day concert with Mark and Maggie O’Connor, Money can’t buy you HYGGE Presented by Kristian Næsby, and more
This week at UW, see art ranging in topics from Valentine's Day to jazz, both on and off-campus.
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This parenting life hack can boost babies' language skills--study
Assistant professor in linguistics, Naja Ferjan Ramirez, proposes an alternative to standard baby-talk: research-backed "parentese."
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There's a much better way to talk to babies than baby talk
Naja Ferjan Ramirez, an assistant professor in linguistics, discusses "parentese," a research-backed alternative to baby talk.
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‘Parentese,’ not traditional baby talk, boosts a baby’s language development
Naja Ferjan Ramirez, an assistant professor in linguistics, discusses how an updated form of babytalk--"parentese"--can help babies' language development.
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UW’s East Asia Library to be renamed the Atsuhiko and Ina Goodwin Tateuchi East Asia Library
The East Asia Library will be renamed the Atsuhiko and Ina Goodwin Tateuchi Library in recognition of a $6 million gift to the library.
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Parentese,' not traditional baby talk, boosts a baby's language development
Naja Ferjan Ramirez, an assistant professor of linguistics, discusses how "parentese," as opposed to traditional baby talk, is beneficial for language development in babies.
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Race and the Small Screen
In a new course, Professor Stephen Groening explores the factors that have shaped Americans' experience of race on television.
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UW Books in brief: Poetry of India’s Bani-Thani, equitable parent-school collaboration, building military cultural competence — and a 2019 National Jewish Book Award
Recent books by faculty in Cinema and Media Studies, Asian Languages and Literature, and the Jackson School have received high praise and won multiple awards.
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More evidence 'parentese' does help babies learn language
Assistant linguistics Professor Naja Ferjan Ramirez discusses how "parentese" can help young children in learning languages.
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Why Is Cupid the Symbol of Valentine’s Day?
Classics Professor Catherine Connors discusses how and why Cupid became the symbol of Valentine's day.