Research

Opinion piece by UW Department of History Professor, Margaret O'Mara.

UW physicist Jiun-Haw Chu named Packard Fellow for research on quantum materials.

As the discipline of American Indian studies approaches its 50th year at the UW, a new research center is in the works:

Stephen Groening, Professor of Cinema and Media, has studied how inflight entertainment might have unique effects on travelers.

Learn how sociologist Katherine Beckett's research on racial bias contributed to the abolishment of the death penalty in WA State. 

A new book by University of Washington history professor George Behlmer seeks to improve understanding of the British colonial era.

As all things pumpkin spice arrive in grocery store aisles and on restaurant menus, a new UW study describes the earliest-known use of nutmeg as a food ingredient.

“I want to recover these moments in which women were stepping out into the streets, onto the screen, and behind the camera and mobilizing."

Two UW scientists, Abigail Swann (assistant professor, biology and atmospheric sciences) and Marlies Kovenock (biology doctoral student),  have discovered that plants with thicker leaves may exacerbate the effects of climate change because they would be less efficient in sequestering atmospheric carbon, a fact that climate change models to date have not taken into account.

UW Psychology research study finds that practicing mindfulness benefits parents and their children.

Dudley teaches music of Latin America and the Caribbean, American popular music, Music and Community, Comparative Musicianship and Analysis, and graduate seminars in Ethnomusicology.

"What we're looking at is something like a settler colonial situation where an entire generation is lost," said Darren Byler, a researcher of Uighur culture at UW.

Margaret O'Mara explores the impact of a December 1968 computer presentation that came to be called “the mother of all demos” in an episode of a new podcast series.

Funding to support the teaching and study of world regions and foreign languages, and generate public engagement in international affairs.

Biology faculty and students will soon fill the UW's new Life Sciences Building along Stevens Way.