Research

Mark Smith, a professor of political science, was recently featured in the New Books in Political Science podcast where he talked about his book "Secular Faith."

John Cramer, a professor emeritus in the UW Department of Physics, has created two different renditions of what the big bang might have sounded like.

Eric Agol, professor of astronomy, will receive the 2016 Lecar Prize from the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics.

Dee Boersma, professor in Biology has studied Magellanic penguins there for more than 30 years.

Matthew Powers, assistant professor of communication at the UW, writes about Greenpeace journalist posing as energy company representatives to expose academics-for-hire. 

Joshua Reid, author of "The Sea Is My Country: The Maritime World of the Makahs," and associate professor of history, will give a presentation Thursday afternoon.

UW Biology Professor Janneke Hille Ris Lambers and student Leander Anderegg release new study.

Assistant professor Megan Ming Francis discusses what Americans can learn from the history of lynching in the U.S. 

China said it would normalize the status of millions of people who had lived on the margins of society. Kam Wing Chan, professor of geography at UW, is quoted. 

Through a pilot program, parents learn how they can help their children develop the skills of self-regulation and effortful control.

Recently honored by the Western Museum Association, Burke Museum Executive Director Julie Stein discusses her years at the museum.

The Internet is making it easier for older women to get outside their social circles for dating and romance, but it can make them more vulnerable to deception.

Wan Changru's 6-year-old daughter is legally unregistered because her parents broke China's one-child policy in having her. Kam Wing Chan, a geography professor, is quoted. 

The $3.9 million project, funded by the Laura and John Arnold Foundation, will be the first systematic study of how multiple states implement court-imposed fees.

The book, The Shape of the New: Four Big Ideas and How They Made the Modern World, explores how capitalism, socialism, evolution and liberal democracy broke decisively with the past.