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Capsule's Time Has Come
After 51 years, a Communications Building time capsule will be opened during Washington Weekend, and a new capsule prepared by students will be installed.
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Encouraging Students to Go Beyond the Books
Just before graduating last spring, Julia Parker created a community service award for future philosophy students, raising the funds for the award herself.
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Finding Hope in Nima
UW Professor Jonathan Mayer is "just short of obsessed" with improving health in Nima, a desperately poor neighborhood in Accra, the largest city in Ghana, Africa.
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A Pow Wow Primer
American Indian Studies offers a course on the history and significance of pow wow, which includes working on one of the University's two annual pow wow events.
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A Sobering Map of Sexual Liaisons
Sociology professor Katherine Stovel studies teens’ sexual behavior and transmission of sexually transmitted diseases.
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Human Rights? We're Still Learning
Philosophy professor William Talbott’s new book suggests that some rights should be universal, regardless of national, religious, or cultural differences.
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Ethics Gets Competitive
A UW team participating in the National Ethics Bowl, a competition of ethical analysis, finished in first place.
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Alexie's Lesson: Question Everything
Award-winning author Sherman Alexie joins the Department of American Ethnic Studies as a senior artist-in-residence.
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Homage to an Adventurer
After Frith Maier retraced adventurer George Kennan's 1870 route through the Caucasus Mountains, the journey became the basis of her UW master's thesis and a new book.
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Madness and Reason in the Maximum Security Prison
Anthropology professor Lorna Rhodes explores the challenges faced by prisoners and prison staff in a maximum security prison.
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Border Crossings
Canadian and American students collaborate through an innovative course offered jointly by the UW, Western Washington University, and University of British Columbia.
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Burma's Enduring Military Regime
International studies professor Mary Callahan’s new book is Making Enemies: War and State Building in Burma.
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Celebrating the College's Top Graduates
Meet the Dean's Medalists for 2002, representing the top student in each of the College's four divisions.
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An Insider's View of State Politics
UW undergraduates in the Legislative Internship Program spend winter quarter in Olympia, learning the intricacies of state politics as they intern for legislators.
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A Rhodes Scholar Reflects on her UW Education
An interview with Rhodes Scholar Elizabeth Angell (BA, History, International Studies, 2001).