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Diverse groups join forces against oil terminal
City councils, local businesses and Indian tribes have turned against plans for the nation’s largest oil terminal at the Port of Vancouver. -
UW alumnus Benjamin Lee selected as Carnegie Junior Fellow
For 2015 University of Washington graduate Benjamin Lee, the opportunity to participate in the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace Junior Fellowship program is a dream come true. -
Following Our Students' Steps Through Rome
An A&S board member shares her experience of traveling in Rome with English professor Shawn Wong and Office of Minority Affairs and Diversity students.
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The new urban agenda needs to tackle water discrimination
Ph.D. student Tracey Chaplin published a collaborative op-ed discussing sea level rise, superstorms and drought, and the potential to decouple water rights from tenancy.
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University of Washington named a ‘top producer’ of Fulbright students
Almost all of the UW Fulbright scholar are majors with the College of Arts & Sciences. -
See new discoveries at the mysterious City of the Jaguar
An excavation of an ancient city in Honduras has yielded a trove of remarkable stone artifacts. Two UW anthropology students are part of the team.
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China, Revisited
Jane Yang, a UW sophomore who grew up in Shanghai, is teaching the UW men’s basketball team about her language and culture. Now, she’s looking at her home — and herself — with fresh eyes. -
Monkeying Around in Remote Indonesia
For 20 years, UW students have participated in field research on a tropical island that's home to more than a thousand monkeys.
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‘Access to Information as a Human Right’ public conference Oct. 5
The University of Washington Center for Human Rights will hold a daylong conference Oct. 5 at the UW School of Law, underscoring a crucial international theme. -
Congratulations Class of 2015!
A new video looks back on the outstanding work of our students, faculty, and alumni in 2015.
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A passion for global study
A first-generation Latina student from Yakima, WA, Annabel Cholico, ’08, is an alumna of the Rome Academic Enrichment Program sponsored by the Office of Minority Affairs & Diversity.
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UW students search for El Salvador children
KING 5 reports on the work of students who are helping search for children disappeared in El Salvador during violent conflict in the early 1980s.
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Video: Honoring March 29, El Salvador’s Day of the Disappeared Child
Students in the University of Washington's Center for Human Rights honor El Salvador's "Day of the Disappeared" with a report and videos about some of the thousands of children who were disappeared. -
Jason and Walter's Excellent Arctic Adventure
During a visit to the Canadian Arctic to study Inuktitut, the Inuit language, students experienced firsthand the language's connection to the land.
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Experiencing the Real Tahiti
Undergraduates in an immersive summer program in Tahiti looked beyond the tourist appeal of French Polynesia to the implications of it being a French colony.