Social Sciences Division

A collaboration between the UW and the Bellevue School District, designed to improve student engagement and performance in advanced placement (AP) courses, is now finding wider success.

Death Over Dinner is a web resource that encourages people to host dinners for family and friends to discuss end-of-life issues. To date, Death Over Dinner has been the impetus for more than 1,000 dinners in 17 countries.

Are the days of "Hey, hey - Ho, ho," giving way to a world of keyboard typing and mouse double clicking? A new University of Washington study took a look at the changing way we fight for change and found the best way forward.

Death planning is a grim topic, but Michael Hebb, a teaching fellow at the University of Washington, is making that conversation easier. He has developed a project called "Death Over Dinner," which helps relatives, friends and even strangers to gather, break bread and talk about matters such as terminal illnesses, loss of a loved one or how they'd like their own death handled.

History gives expression to the time and place in which the historian is writing. It gets rewritten each generation, with the past determined by the present, says Prof. Ken Pyle.

Pepper Schwartz, reported that in nine out of 10 households that identify themselves as "feminist", the man did most of the driving when both partners were in the car.

Last month, elders and members from 30-plus Washington state tribes, Native American students, and faculty gathered with university officials to break ground on a $3 million modern cedar longhouse on the UW campus.

History suggests that Tacloban and other severely damaged communities will eventually recover, says Vicente Rafael, a professor specializing in Southeast Asian history at the University of Washington.

Digital activism is usually nonviolent and tends to work best when social media tools are combined with street-level organization, according to new research from Philip Howard.

Jake Rosenfeld, a professor of sociology at the University of Washington who studies labor, said that Boeing may not have been negotiating, but rather, looking for a way out of Washington.

The hard-hit Philippines coastal city of Tacloban may now be known for grim images of devastation and shattered lives caused by Typhoon Haiyan. But before the storm hit, the city was a thriving commercial center with a colorful and proud history, says prof. Vicente Rafael.

Matt Barreto says it's common for races to swing a percentage point or two in the days after election night, but this last election was unusual.

Huskies John Timu, Hau'oli Kikaha and Danny Shelton take a weekly independent-study class at the Burke Museum of Natural History and Culture.

Seattle's new council districts were drawn up by former geography professor Richard Morrill. He says they were created with racial fairness as a top priority.

The film "Blue Is the Warmest Color," features long, detailed and explicit sexual scenes which earned it an NC-17 rating, but some critics say teens should see it. UW sociology professor Pepper Schwartz disagrees.