Undergraduate Education

Audiences delighted in a lively Federico García Lorca play, performed entirely in Spanish by students in SPAN 449: Spanish Play Production.

Biology Professor Jay Parrish offers students in BIOL 413 access to his research lab, where they design and conduct their own genetics experiments.

UW students and prison inmates met weekly for a senior seminar—a "mixed enrollment" class in which the two groups worked together as peers.

The roots of some of today's most successful global health initiatives can be traced back to less-than-noble colonial ventures.

President's Medalist Megan Kufeld is both an athlete and a scholar."I want people to realize that it is possible to be both," she says.

Three creative thinkers—an artist, an art historian, and a neuroscientist—are collaborating on Art and the Brain, a DXARTS course that explores the potential melding of art and neuroscience.

Next time you watch the Huskies do battle on the football field, imagine the cheering crowd wearing togas. War Games, a Classics course, highlights some surprising connections between ancient and contemporary athletics.

A&S students interested in pursuing an academic minor can choose from dozens of options, including seven interdisciplinary minors in fields ranging from diversity to education to human rights.

Students learned about agroecology from the ground up—literally—as they worked with farmers in an unusual and isolated high-altitude farming community in the Upper Rio Grande.

When a foot injury sidelined dancer Anna Zemke (BA, Dance, Biochemistry), she gave up one dream to pursue another. But she never lost her passion for dance, even as she pursued a second degree in biochemistry.

"I find theory of computation and logic extremely beautiful," says Sam Hopkins (BS, Mathematics, Computer Science), whose fascination with mathematics and philosophy have informed his computer science research.

An interest in social justice led Sam Nowak (BA, Geography) to the Department of Geography, where he pursued research on issues of inequality, particularly among Seattle's homeless and other marginalized populations.

For Mimi Cagaitan (BA, English, Comparative History of Ideas), an unusual family history was the motivation for her research and a class she led about international marriage migration—the so-called "mail-order bride" industry.

After years of balancing UW studies with a demanding full-time dance career, Pacific Northwest Ballet dancer Leah O'Connor will earn a bachelor's degree in sociology in June.

The new Dean of  the College of Arts and Sciences shares his thoughts about his role, the value of the liberal arts, and the state of higher education.