Social Sciences Division

Jim Riswold (1983), whose hugely popular ad campaigns for Nike and other top clients featured household names like Michael Jordan and Bugs Bunny, was recently inducted into advertising's Creative Hall of Fame.

Martha Gonzalez and her band Quetzal won a 2013 Grammy for their album Imaginaries. Her work as a recording artist is intertwined with her academic work as a PhD candidate in Gender, Women & Sexuality Studies.

It began as a modest resource to address students' frequently asked questions, but Professor Quintard Taylor's BlackPast.org website now attracts 2.8 million visitors a year with its trusted information about African American history.

So do aphrodisiacs really work? Pepper Schwartz, professor of sociology, says the power of pheromones and aphrodisiacs lack the scientific proof to make a believer out of her.

In an op-ed piece, Victor Menaldo, assistant professor of political science, and co-author consider the possibilities for democracy in the Middle East after the Arab Spring.

President Obama's call for universal preschool in his State of the Union address underlines a national shift in thinking about early childhood education. Andrew Meltzoff, co-director of the Institute for Learning and Brain Sciences. is quoted..

Research from the Department of Psychology shows territorial song sparrows use increasingly threatening signals to ward off trespassing rivals.

UW graduate student (Gender, Women, and Sexuality Studies) Martha Gonzalez took home a Grammy for her vocal work on the Quetzal! album "Imaginaries," in the best Latin rock, urban or alternative category

The Bellingham Herald reviews "Blind Spot: Hidden Biases of Good People," by Anthony Greenwald, professor of psychology, and Mahzarin Banaji, of Harvard.

Married men and women who divide household chores in traditional ways report having more sex than couples who share so-called men's and women's work, according to a new study co-authored by sociologists at the University of Washington.

Researchers at the Institute for Learning & Brain Sciences have found that the anatomy of certain brain areas - the hippocampus and cerebellum - can predict children's language abilities at 1 year of age.

Under the roof of the UW Communication Leadership program, a "sister" degree will be created alongside the Master of Communications in Digital Media (MCDM). It's called MCCN: The Master of Communication in Communities and Networks.

Political Science Professor Matt Barreto is quoted in an article on keys to Washington State Governor (and UW alumnus) Jay Inslee's success in his first term.

James Wellman, associate professor of American religion in the Jackson School of International Studies, is the author of the book "Rob Bell and a New American Christianity." He answered a few questions about his book for UW Today.

Children are natural philosophers, says Jana Mohr Lone of the UW Department of Philosophy and author of a new book titled "The Philosophical Child."