Graduate Education

Ginny Burton, who is graduating with a degree in political science, shares her inspiring story about overcoming addiction.

Incoming art assistant professor Sangram Majumdar explains his journey to the UW School of Art + Art History + Design.

How the Department of Gender, Women & Sexuality Studies continues to address the most critical issues of our time.

Robert Stacey, who served on the faculty of the Department of History for 33 years and retires after serving as dean of the College of Arts & Sciences, is honored.

Master of Fine Arts student Payton Cahill's thesis project, "Ancient Future," "transcends the limits of the gallery space through a prompting of collective reflection."

Ada Limón, who graduated from the UW with a degree in Drama in 1998, has been chosen as the School of Drama's graduation keynote speaker.

Tony Geist, former chairman of UW Spanish and Portuguese Studies and founding director of the León Center discusses the lease renewal of the Center through 2025.

Bryn Bandt-Law, UW researcher and graduate student in psychology, discusses her new research on sexual harassment.

The usual video game plot is that you’re some kind of hero going to some kind of castle or stronghold, to defeat an evil villain and save someone. Very rarely do you see racism as the primary enemy in a video game. But that is the villain at the center of a new game from Chanhee Choi, a doctoral student in digital arts and experimental media at the UW. [This is the third segment on "The Record"]

Since 1994, alumni and friends in the Multicultural Alumni Partnership have worked together to promote diversity at the UW and address issues of equity and diversity on our campuses and in our community. This year’s promising scholars range from early undergraduates who are still zeroing in on a major to those pursuing graduate and professional degrees.

Several UW faculty members, researchers, and students are involved in the FASER collaboration, which studies interactions of high-energy particles.

"It’s no secret that the media eagerly reports potential technical breakthroughs with hyperventilating headlines ... [but] the media often fails to clearly indicate the preliminary nature of the findings they trumpet. Even worse, they seldom report when the studies they hyped previously fail to pan out," writes Executive Editor Leland Teschler. The UW's Jevin West, associate professor in the UW Information School, and Carl Bergstrom, professor of biology at the UW, are quoted.

The pandemic saw a spike in xenophobia against Asians. Digital artist Chanee Choi, a doctoral student in digital arts and experimental media at the UW, decided to fight back in a way only she could.

Grace Funsten (Classics PhD candidate) and Adriana Vazquez (who received her PhD in classics in 2017) have won the 2021-22 Rome Prize, a year-long residential fellowship at the American Academy in Rome.

Testing is still a valuable tool in our COVID-19 prevention toolkit, but the technologies and motivations behind it are shifting. We’ll also have to shift our understanding of test results and metrics. A tool developed by the UW's Carl Bergstrom, professor of biology, and Ryan McGee, a graduate student in biology, are quoted.