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Getting Personal with Roma Communities
For students on a CHID program in Europe, visits with the Roma community (commonly known as Gypsies) challenged persistent stereotypes.
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Learning By Performing—in Spanish
Audiences delighted in a lively Federico García Lorca play, performed entirely in Spanish by students in SPAN 449: Spanish Play Production.
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Doug Underwood scouts border between fiction, journalism in new book
Doug Underwood is a University of Washington professor of communication. He answered a few questions about his latest book, "The Undeclared War between Fiction and Journalism: Journalists as Genre Benders in Literary History." -
UW Latin classes expand to local high schools
The UW Department of Classics recently expanded beyond the UW campus and into various high schools in Washington, making the UW the first college in the state to offer Latin university courses to high school students. -
Veterans open up, learn to tell stories under Red Badge Project
English professor Shawn Wong helps discharged veterans learn to tell their story and cope with transition. -
UW Alum receives 2014 Walt Whitman Award
Hannah Park, interviewed by the College after winning the Ruth Lilly Poetry Fellowship in 2013, has now earned another top honor: the 2014 Walt Whitman Award from the Academy of American Poets -
Building Diversity, One Classicist at a Time
The Department of Classics was recently recognized for its efforts to promote equity and diversity in both its faculty and students.
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The Russians Are Coming
The UW School of Music and UW Slavic Languages & Literatures co-host a two-day conference with the Seattle Symphony on music of Russian diaspora. -
'Emery Jones': the adventures of a scientific whiz kid
Emeritus professor at the UW and National Book Award winner Charles Johnson writes a children's book that features an African-American science prodigy who is bullied because he's different. -
When songs trumped rifles
In his new book "The Power of Song," Guntis Smidchens explores what is often dubbed "the Singing Revolution," a passive resistance movement that took hold in the Baltic nations. -
Bridging Language and Technology
He's taught English in Russia and worked on messaging apps at Microsoft. Now Julian Chan ('07) is combining his two passions, language and technology.
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From Burke Volunteer to EMP Curator
EMP Museum curator Jacob McMurray ('95) discovered a passion for museums while working at the UW's Burke Museum as an undergrad.
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Nordic Lights Film Festival feels right at home in Seattle
Andrew Nestingen, professor of Scandinavian studies says the culture in the Northwest is a good fit with the nature of Scandinavian politics. -
The (very) long view on the state of football
NPR profiles Sarah Stroup's class called War Games: Greek Athletes, Roman Gladiators, the Modern Olympics and College Football. -
When Songs Trumped Rifles
When the Soviet Union attacked the newly independent Baltic nations in 1991, Baltic citizens responded by gathering en masse and singing in nonviolent protest. The Soviets eventually backed down.