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Professor Emeritus Marvin Oliver to Receive UW's 2019 Odegaard Award
Established in 1973, the Odegaard award honors individuals whose leadership in the community exemplifies the former UW president’s work on behalf of diversity.
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People Person: Photographer Bob Peterson's lens has seen it all
From John F. Kennedy to Janis Joplin, the former UW sociology major has a knack for making his subjects feel at ease
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UW teaches students Inuktitut through funding prompted by Sputnik launch
Learn the fascinating history behind why some students at the UW's Canadian Studies Center are learning Inuktitut.
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President Trump Thinks the Shutdown Will Give Him His Wall. Here's How Presidents Have Fared in Past Shutdowns
Experts, including UW political scientists, weigh in on the recent government shut down and what the outcomes of past shutdowns have been.
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A Mentoring Mastermind
With Hey Mentor, an online mentoring program, Kevin Truong (BA, 2016) is helping students prepare for college.
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An Inventive Sewage Solution
Taber Hand (MA, 1983) has found a cost-effective solution for sewage treatment in challenging settings.
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New global migration estimates show rates proportionally steady since 1990, high rate of return migration
Two scientists at the UW unveiled a new statistical method for estimating migration flows between countries
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Character: Jessica Estrada keeps blogging fresh
Communications Alumna Jessica Estrada is featured in Columns.
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UW students demand answers from ICE — the old-fashioned way
The UW Center for Human Rights is teaching a new generation to use the Freedom of Information Act.
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Cheap oil is blocking progress on climate change
Analysis from international studies lecturer, Scott Montgomery
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The End of Privacy Began in the 1960s
Choices that Congress made decades ago allowed tech giants to become as powerful as they are according to UW history professor Margaret O'Mara.
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UW-led philosophy team receives $1.5M grant to study the ethics of neurotechnology research
UW associate professor of philosophy, Sara Goering, to lead team studying how brain-computer interfaces affect whether patients feel they are in charge of their own actions.
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Which motivates independents to get politically involved: Pocketbook issues or fear that Trump is hurting democracy?
Op-ed by UW political scientist, Christopher Parker, on the 2020 elections
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Lessons for Washington from a carbon-tax autopsy
Op-ed by Nives Dolsak, marine and environmental affairs; Aseem Prakash and Steven Karceski, Center for Environmental Politics
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The ‘Swiss Army knife of prehistoric tools’ found in Asia, independent of ancient African or European influence
A study by an international team of researchers, including from the UW, determines that carved stone tools were used in Asia 80,000 to 170,000 years ago.