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UW named top school nationally for LGBTQIA+ students
Best Colleges, an organization that ranks higher education institutions in various categories, cited the Q Center and UW's welcoming admissions fairs as pride points.
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Interrupting Privilege
UW professor Ralina Joesph is teaching people to talk about race across generational and racial lines
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UW’s Pacific Northwest English Study seeking new group of research participants for summer 2019
Is there a Northwest accent? The Pacific Northwest English Study is about to begin a new, three-year research project listening to voices from throughout the region.
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Going beyond guilt trips
KUOW interviews Anu Taranath, faculty member in English and Comparative History of Ideas departments, about her new book called Beyond Guilt Trips: Mindful Travel in an Unequal World.
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Woman in Seattle's Central District to preserve music history with virtual reality
Yolanda Barton (BA, Laws, Societies, and Justice, 2004 | MC, Digital Media, 2018) wants to use virtual reality to preserve the music history of Seattle.
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Exploring Blackness through Art
The Black Embodiments Studio examines how definitions of blackness are produced and expressed through the arts.
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Dani Tirrell moves through space
Dani Tirrell (Dance lecturer) is a self-described "movement guide," and mines both his personal life and the culture around him to create dance performances with something to say.
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These musicians use cardboard boxes, books and rocks to create music focusing on wrongfully convicted prisoners
Allen Otte and John Lane will lead a lecture-performance, with UW Percussion Ensemble, and discussion.
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These artists want to draw the Chinese railroad workers back into history
An artist’s inspiration can come from anywhere. For UW Painting + Drawing Professor Lin Zhi, it happened in August 2001, on a road trip from Missouri to Seattle.
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Alumni Spotlight: Jake Prendez
Meet the American Ethnic Studies alum whose new gallery in White Center celebrates Latinx art and a home for the 'in-between.'
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With ‘Nina Simone: Four Women,’ director Valerie Curtis-Newton wants audiences to see the work of black women
Valerie Curtis-Newton, head of directing program in the School of Drama, is the director of "Nina Simone: Four Women" at the Seattle Repertory Theatre, on stage April 26.
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Indigenous weaving as resistance
Artist Sara Siestreem speaks at the Henry Art Gallery about what it means to be a tribe member, artist, educator
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Jackson School’s Devin Naar featured in documentary premiering March 24 at Seattle’s Jewish Film Festival
Naar and others trace their hidden Sephardic Jewish roots in a new documentary showing at the Seattle Jewish Film Festival.
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A Puget Sound Language Returns
The Southern Lushootseed language, once spoken where the UW now sits, is finding new speakers through a UW course.
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Philanthropy and the NAACP: how 'movement capture' changed civil rights
UW political science professor, Megan Ming Francis, explores how the NAACP and its funders have lessons for philanthropy and activism.