UW and the Community

The Sacred Breath series features Native American writers and storytellers, with an upcoming event on May 10.

Professor of sociology, Alexes Harris, leads a team of researchers at nine universities who are exploring the role of monetary sanctions in the criminal justice system. 

UW history professor, Jim Gregory, on the election, activism, and historical perspective.

Tell a Congressional staffer that you’re visiting to talk about public support for the humanities and you see waves of both puzzlement and relief wash across their face.

The Seattle Globalist, founded at the UW, reports on pressing political and social issues through the lens of diverse contributors. 

Dept. of Linguistic's Alicia Wassink answers the Local Wonder question, "Why do so many people born and raised in this region pronounce the name of the state as 'Wershington'"?

A Suzzallo Library exhibit created by history grad student Jessica Bachman highlights Cold War-era cultural ties between India and the USSR. 

UW professor Quintard Taylor is blowing students’ minds in class and with his website devoted to black history.

Cluster, their concept which received $85,000 and Amazon product development support, is an online suite of composition tools using comics narratives to teach effective, situated writing.

During a celebration of her work, the term "incremental heroism" was used to describe the career of Beth Sellars, now the namesake of the biennial Anne Focke Arts Leadership Award (AFALA)

Ruchika Tulshyan, lecturer of communication at the UW, and Tracey Whitten of The Seattle Women's Commission are quoted.

In order to make international students’ journey in America more meaningful, UW's Wei Zuo devotes herself to creating the bridge to help international students adapt. 

UW Psychology researchers have developed a remarkably effective therapy for people at high risk for suicide or with other behavior disorders.

When the election's over and the dust clears, a panel of UW political science faculty will help make sense of it all on November 16.

This year, the Nobel Prize in Physics went to three men — all born in Britain, but working at U.S. universities.