Research

UW alum and lecturer Graham Pruss lived in an RV for five months as part of the research for his anthropology PhD, and discusses the feelings of unwelcomeness it brought from his community.

Shannon Dudley, School of music ethnomusicology professor, discusses what makes a song.

In a study of transgender children, researchers with the Department of Psychology found that transgender children "experience gender just as strongly as cisgender" children.

Through the Early Buddhist Manuscripts Project, led by UW professor emeritus Richard Salomon, scholars study the oldest known Buddhist texts to understand how Buddhism developed and spread.

Jake Grumbach, assistant professor of political science, talks about what makes for an effective campaign. 

Dr. Pepper Schwartz, a UW sociologist, explains where the Seattle Freeze came from and what we can do to fix it.

Ben Marwick, associate professor in anthropology, talks about container platforms -- standardized computational environments that can be shared and reused. 

In the late '60s, a couple of UC Berkeley students, including UW English Professor Shawn Wong, were in search of Asian-American writers, when they learned about the work of John Okada.

Curious about spiders? This video features Rod Crawford, the curator of arachnids at the Burke Museum.

Julianne Dalcanton, professor and chair of astronomy at the UW, led the team that captured an image that may look like a ghostly apparition, but it is not.

A satellite smaller than a loaf of bread will, if all goes well, launch this weekend on its way to low-Earth orbit. It will be the first student-built satellite from Washington state to go into space.

Eric Shea-Brown, professor of applied mathematics, discusses the mathematical relationship in the brain’s representations of sensory information.

UW Biology Professor Adam Summers and Doctoral student Karly Cohen are on a team researching when and how piranhas replace old dull teeth for new ones. 

A UW-led study finds that Deaf infants of Deaf parents demonstrate strong gaze-following behavior, which establishes a social connection between parent and child.

Affiliate Professor of Biology Sue Moore has explored how the interplay between scientific and indigenous knowledge can deepen our understanding of the world.