Social Sciences Division

Thanks to scholarship support, Dashni Amin was able to draw inspiration from her parents’ sacrifices — and prepare herself for a future of helping others.

On Thursday, the UW opened a modern interpretation of a Coast Salish longhouse on the Seattle campus, fulfilling a 40-year-old request by Native Americans to create a space that would allow students to connect with culture and family.

Decades of efforts to end female genital cutting have resulted in some progress, but the ancient tradition stubbornly persists in many places.

Elyse Gordon, a geography doctoral student at the UW, wants to inspire younger people to get involved in their communities.

A 2013 Rasmussen Reports poll found that only 37 percent of surveyed Americans thought daylight saving time was worth the hassle. Hendrik Wolff, an environmental economist at the UW, is quoted.

Legislative Explorer is an interactive tool that lets you explore what actually happens in Congress -- which bills are introduced, where they go, and what their ultimate fate is. UW political scientists Nicholas Stramp and John Wilkerson developed it.

The fifth annual Women Who Rock "unconference" event, to be held Saturday, March 7, at Rainier Valley Cultural Center in South Seattle. The event's theme, Rocking Media Justice, celebrates the use of social media to document the realities of marginalized communities.

David Horsey is a two-time Pulitzer prize-winning editorial cartoonist who graduated from the University of Washington with a bachelor's degree in communication in 1975.

KUOW's Bill Radke asked Hanson Hosein, director of the Communication Leadership program at the University of Washington about the FCC's latest ruling.

The group of 52 plans to see people and places that were key to the civil-rights efforts in the 1950s and 1960s, and are still important today.

Joshua Griffin, doctoral candidate in anthropology at the UW, co-authors a report on Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell's meeting with community elders, hunters, and search and rescue volunteers in Inupiaq, Alaska.

Paul Franco, acting assistant professor of philosophy, considers what a dead German philosopher would say about the drill stuck under Seattle's waterfront.

Columnist Nicholas Kristof writes that as unions wane, it's "increasingly clear that they were doing a lot of good in sustaining middle class life." Jake Rosenfeld, a labor expert at the UW and the author of "What Unions No Longer Do," is quoted.

In a guest piece, Paul Franco, acting assistant professor of philosophy, considers the plight of Bertha from the perspective of Immanuel Kant.

The life of a Bangladeshi garment factory worker is not an easy one. But new research from the University of Washington indicates that access to such factory jobs can improve the lives of young Bangladeshi women.