• 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.

    April 2014 Perspectives
  • 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.

    April 2014 Perspectives
  • 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 Today
  • 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.
    The Daily
  • 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.
    The News Tribune
  • 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
    Poetry.org
  • 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.

    March 2014 Perspectives
  • 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.
    City Arts Magazine
  • '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.
    Seattle Times
  • 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.
    UW Today
  • 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.

    January 2014 Perspectives
  • 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.

    January 2014 Perspectives
  • 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 Seattle Times
  • 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.
    NPR
  • 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.

    December 2013 Perspectives