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Barack Obama’s mother and the UW Department of Anthropology
Stanley Ann Dunham pursued research in Indonesia and her son, Barack Obama, went on to become President of the United States.
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A Second Chance at Following a Dream
Disenchanted with his career as an Audi technician, Simon Walker returned to school and discovered a passion for international studies.
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Yakima Latinos have a historic opportunity for civic engagement
With Yakima's new district-based election system, the Latino community has new-found momentum in its efforts to organize politically. Mark Smith, UW political science professor, is quoted. -
Japan may be the space power to watch
The ambiguities in the dual-uses of space technology blur our understanding of Asia. They mask just who is a competent military space power in Asia today.
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History professor Elena Campbell publishes book on Russia and the ‘Muslim question’
Elena I. Campbell, a University of Washington associate professor of history, has published her first book, which studies Russia’s policies toward Muslims in the 19th and 20th centuries. -
Shedding light on complexities of poverty
The way people think about poverty affects both how important we think fighting poverty is. UW's Victoria Lawson and Sarah Elwood, geography professors, are quoted. -
Seattle has highest percentage of atheist among large metro areas in the U.S.
Ten percent of Seattle residents call themselves atheists. James Wellman, chair of comparative religion says that’s in part because people come here to find cultural freedom.
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UW EcoCAR 3 team to compete on home turf
Seattle will host the third EcoCAR competition from May 29 to June 4, marking the competition's first visit to the city. Communication major, Kate Kitto, manages communications for the UW team. -
Public-sector jobs vanish, hitting blacks hard
Compared to the private sector, the public sector has offered black and female workers better pay, job stability, and opportunities according to UW sociologist Jennifer Laird. -
Students put GIS skills to use on social justice projects
The juniors and seniors in Elwood’s GIS Workshop course are applying lessons learned in class to projects with local nonprofits ranging from food banks to criminal justice organizations. -
The Makah whale hunt seen through the lens of history
Joshua Reid talks about his new book, "My Country is the Sea: The Maritime World of the Makahs." Reid arrives in the fall to be a UW associate professor of history and American Indian Studies. -
UW-led network seeks to reframe poverty locally and globally
Two University of Washington geography professors are leading an effort with what might be considered a staggeringly ambitious goal — to reframe how poverty is perceived and studied around the world. -
Senior Josh Kim Co-authors Paper Published in the "American Economic Review Papers and Proceedings"
Economics senior Joshua Kim is hardly a fan of sports — but his knack for digging up information about the NFL and its players became his ticket to presenting a preliminary paper at the AEA. -
Painting by numbers
A group of "data artists" is creating conceptual works using information collected by mobile apps, scientists and more. Gina Neff, author and associate professor of communication at the UW, is quoted. -
As middle class fades, so does use of term on campaign trail
The once ubiquitous term "middle class" has gone conspicuously missing from the 2016 campaign trail, as candidates and their strategists grasp for new terms for an unsettled economic era.