Undergraduate Education

This article highlights the Clean Energy Bridge to Research program, with special focus on Vanessa Zambrano, for whom the program helped kickstart her career.

Students share their experience with the ART 496 museum guide program, a year-long paid internship at the Henry Art Gallery.

Instructors of two different sections of DANCE 232, Alana Isiguen, the department of dance artist in residence, and dance instructor Roel Seeber, explain the distinct iterations of their unique course.

Three Seattle drama programs, including the UW's program, are collaborating to present a new project, "UNCHARTED WATERS."

Many professors addressed the recent coup in their class, including assistant professor of political science Jake Grumbach.

In honor of MLK Day, the UW asked Black students, staff, and faculty to respond to the prompt, “What does MLK Day mean to you in 2021?”

Through PR2ISM, chemistry postdoc Tam'ra-Kay Francis and others are focused on helping STEM students persist and succeed.

UW senior Owen Oliver grew up on the UW campus. Now he wants others in his community to feel at home at the University.

DANCE 345: “Boogie, Break, Blues: American Popular & Social Dance Histories” explores the history of social dance movements.

The University of Washington is recognized as one of the top universities in the world that offers Hindi courses.

Teachers across the state waded into lessons about the attack on the U.S. Capitol and other conversations about racism and politics, seeing these events as opportunities for critical thinking and their classes as important spaces to tackle misinformation and hate speech. Jake Grumbach, assistant professor of political science at the UW, is quoted.

Last year, when it became clear that 2020 would be like no other, a group of University of Washington professors launched a program for freshmen called “2020: The Course.” The article links to a video of Ed Taylor, vice provost and dean for Undergraduate Academic Affairs; Karam Dana, associate professor of interdisciplinary arts and sciences at UW Bothell; Hilary Godwin, dean of the UW School of Public Health; Sharon S. Laing, assistant professor of nursing and health care leadership at UW Tacoma; Kate Starbird, associate professor of human centered design and engineering at the UW; and Joe Janes, associate professor at the UW Information School.

Owen L. Oliver, senior studying American Indian Studies, has developed an Indigenous walking tour of the UW.

Twenty moments from a year like no other — captured through the lenses of UW photographers.

Through hours of Zoom meetings, University of Washington vice provost and dean of Undergraduate Academic Affairs Ed Taylor found himself nervously folding paper off screen. As he helped the university make high-stakes decisions about its pandemic future, his fingers kept busy shaping origami cranes. Taylor's collection of about 300 cranes tells the story of how he coped with this year, and they will constitute his entry to a virtual time capsule, the culmination of a class he led called "2020: The Course." Taylor; Kate Starbird, UW associate professor of human centered design and engineering; Theodore Myhre, UW assistant teaching professor of law; and Iisaaksiichaa Ross Braine, the UW’s tribal liaison, are quoted. Hilary Godwin, dean of the UW School of Public Health; Dr. Benjamin Danielson, UW clinical professor of pediatrics; Robert Stacey, dean of the UW College of Arts and Sciences; Alexes Harris, UW professor of sociology; Carolyn West, professor of social, behavioral and human sciences at UW Tacoma; and Megan Ming Francis, UW associate professor of political science, are mentioned.