Research

An exorbitant interest rate on court fines and fees help create modern-day debtors’ jails. Alexes Harris, associate professor of sociology, is quoted.

Two teams of University of Washington researchers were members of the multinational, decades-long scientific groups that won.

UW Psychology Professor Sapna Cheryan,discusses why high school girls don't pursue math and science. 

A discussion on why the UW is suing the CIA over documents requested under the Freedom of Information Act about an alleged massacre in El Salvador.

"My research indicates that ... pledges of abstinence do not necessarily make for an easy transition to a married sexual life," writes Sarah Diefendorf, UW sociology doctoral student, in The Conversat

"China has hailed Xi’s trip a success, [and] ... Washington state played a big role in his achieving his agenda," writes Assunta Ng for Northwest Asian Weekly. Professor David Bachman, is quoted.

The UW Center for Human Rights announced it is suing the CIA for withholding information on a United States-trained El Salvadoran commander who has been implicated in civilian deaths.

Earth-like exoplanets may have magnetic fields capable of protecting life according to researchers at the Virtual Planetary Laboratory based at the UW.

Seeking justice for survivors of a massacre in El Salvador, the Center for Human Rights is suing the agency over withholding public records

Anthropology's Donald Grayson says evidence that humans hunted mammoths is friarly rare. 

Rural communities that host prisons support punitive criminal laws and policies because they profit prison growth, writes Rebecca Thorpe, assistant professor of political science.

Astronomers from the Virtual Planetary Laboratory have created a way to rank exoplanets to help prioritize which of the thousands discovered warrant close inspection in the search for life.

Christopher Parker, an associate professor at the University of Washington, talks about how the political conversation may shift if change averse elements of the Republican party take control.

Blue jeans, beards, body adornments, natural foods, legal marijuana, gay marriage, and single parenthood — it is now clear that the hippies won the culture wars.

A UW human rights project is suing the Central Intelligence Agency for refusing to declassify and turn over documents relating to the U.S. role in El Salvador’s civil war.