Graduate Education

From the University of Washington’s Jacob Lawrence Gallery comes a new exhibit of art created by nine graduate students from the School of Art + Art History +Design. This new exhibit will examine neglected realities, repressed traumas, and invisible contagion through instillations and paintings, to name a few mediums. 

Proving that creativity can flourish in the face of adversity, at least six new art spaces have opened across King County in recent months, despite and in some cases inspired by COVID-19 closures. The works of Luke Armistead and Stefan Gonzales, recent graduates of the Master of Fine Arts program in the UW School of Art, are available for view in socially distanced settings. The work of Gonzales is on display at the UW’s Jacob Lawrence Gallery as part of a residency and is accessible online.

This five-year, $1.8 million training program at the UW will fund 25 academic-year graduate fellowships, develop a new training curriculum and contribute to methodological advances in health research at the intersection of demography and data science.

Chanee Choi, a doctoral student in digital arts and experimental media at the UW, has created “Pandemic,” which is both a video game and work of art. It is a first-person 3D video game in which the player is the coronavirus, moving through a virtual environment.

Associate Professor of Philosophy Carole Lee’s interdisciplinary research exploring racial disparities in grant funding gained traction with a letter published in The Lancet.

The Jacob Lawrence Gallery and School of Art + Art History + Design welcome The Black Embodiments Studio (BES) as a resident program for the next two academic years.

The Jacob Lawrence Gallery and School of Art + Art History + Design welcome The Black Embodiments Studio (BES) as a resident program for the next two academic years.

The Department of English has introduced its new “Literature, Language, Culture” Dialogue Series, a series of podcasts and YouTube videos in which UW humanities faculty discuss their research and teaching — “including the ways our work contributes to how we experience and seek to understand this time of global crisis.”

Scott Freeman, principle lecture emeritus, and Elli Theobald, assistant teaching professor of biology, explain why lecturing actively harms underrepresented minority and low-income students.

Patricia Louie, professor of sociology, explains bias in medical textbooks and how it endangers BIPOC.

The UW has ranked #16 in the world in the 2020 Academic Ranking of World Universities.

Stephen Bader (UW IxD BDes 2014) and Alanna MacGowan (UW MFA 2010) work at Microsoft Envisioning and explore how people will live, work, and play five to seven years in the future. 

 Dr. Ekin Yasin was named director of the University of Washington’s Communication Leadership graduate program.

The International Examiner concluded its Advocacy Journalism Fellowship Program. Fellows, including Isabel Wang, a communication student, reflects on their experiences.

The UW Seattle and Bothell campuses have been ranked very highly on CNBC's "Make It" list and Times Higher Education list.