Graduate Education

  • Waging War in Cyberspace

    A doctoral student explains how one online hacker can be more powerful than 10,000 soldiers.

    November 2018 Perspectives
  • Meet the artist: Painter Miha Sarani

    Columns Magazine's June cover is a painting of Orin Smith by Miha Sarani, a BFA alum, current MA student, and former Starbucks employee. What's his painting's secret? Coffee.

    Columns
  • In Israel, Asylum Seekers Find Their Voice

    Oded Oron witnessed a massive protest of aslyum-seeking refugees in Tel Aviv. Then he wrote a PhD dissertation about it.

    June 2018 Perspectives
  • An Optimist Studies Race & Equity

    PhD student Arianne Eason believes that understanding what shapes our views on race is the first step toward positive change. 

    June 2018 Perspectives
  • Powerful Stories About Ocean Sustainability

    Communication Leadership students use storytelling to shed light on humans' dependence on the ocean.

    April 2018 Perspectives
  • A Spanish Language Film Festival, Curated for Teens

    Spanish Studies graduate students are planning a Spanish-language film festival for Chief Sealth High School. 

    April 2018 Perspectives
  • A Quantum Leap

    A physics student explores the possibilities of quantum computing — with help from a Microsoft Research Fellowship.

    March 2018 Perspectives
  • Two Days to Solve an International Crisis

    For students participating in a simulated negotiation about the Cyprus conflict, the simulation felt very real.

    September 2017 Perspectives
  • Renaissance Art to Theoretical Physics

    Four graduate students are receiving the A&S Graduate Medal along with their PhDs.

    June 2017 Perspectives
  • Early human fossils found in South African cave system

    An international team of scientists, including one from the UW, has announced the discovery of additional remains of a new human species.

    UW Today
  • Every Spring, a Guatemalan Clinic

    “It felt like a whole quarter-worth of clinical experience in ten days," says a Department of Speech & Hearing Sciences grad student who volunteered in Guatemala.

    May 2017 Perspectives
  • Bollywood & Bolsheviks Visit Suzzallo

    A Suzzallo Library exhibit created by history grad student Jessica Bachman highlights Cold War-era cultural ties between India and the USSR. 

    March 2017 Perspectives
  • Two Passions, One Vision

    Mary and Allan Kollar have combined their passions for writing and art through a graduate fellowship that honors both disciplines. 

    December 2016 Perspectives
  • A Gift for Saving Lives

    UW Psychology researchers have developed a remarkably effective therapy for people at high risk for suicide or with other behavior disorders.

    December 2016 Perspectives
  • A True Gift of Creativity

    Grad students in diverse creative fields collaborated through a summer colloquium, Multiplying Mediums. 

    September 2016 Perspectives