Social Sciences Division

Mentorship in college has proven to be effective in maintaining retention rates and better performance in careers after degree completion.

University of Washington, Jennifer Laird, wrote a widely cited dissertation, examining the effects of public-sector layoffs on different races

Newer, smaller, and potentially transformative businesses are today bringing forth what can best be described as a revolution in space affairs. 

Ph.D. student Tracey Chaplin published a collaborative op-ed discussing sea level rise, superstorms and drought, and the potential to decouple water rights from tenancy. 

Scott Montgomery analyzes public pressure on the U.S. Treasury to reverse an earlier decision to keep its own founder, Alexander Hamilton, on the $10 bill.

Four University of Washington professors join 172 other academics as newly elected fellows of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the group announced Wednesday.

World leaders gathered in Paris in December to forge a global agreement to limit planet-warming carbon emissions.

Coming changes should be quite different than South Lake Union precisely because of the collaborative, community-centered work done over the past four years.

The study looked at rates of foster care nationwide and found that states with more punitive criminal justice systems tended to remove children from their homes far more often.

There is evidence that suggests non-monogamous relationships can be just as beneficial. Pepper Schwartz, professor of sociology at the UW, is quoted. 

Jackson School faculty member Scott Montgomery says Russia is not what you think. 

Political science professor, Christopher Adolph talks about how things might change following the release of Panama Papers. 

"People are wired for love, that's why they keep coming back, despite heartbreaks and losses," says Pepper Schwartz, professor of sociology at the UW. 

Graduate students from the UW are part of a research project aimed at learning how migrants use new communications technology.

"(The) number of women who had suffered from sexual abuse at the hands of state agents was surprising," writes Hind Ahmed Zaki, doctoral student in political science at the UW.