UW and the Community

School of Drama Associate Professor Scott Magelssen  returned from Norway’s Kon-Tiki Museum...

From the Lyon Opera Ballet to Simone Dinnerstein, prepare yourself for the rest of spring quarter because it’s looking bright!

Last month, Erasmo Gamboa, a UW professor of history and Latin American studies, returned to his hometown of Sunnyside to salvage the walls and rooftops of three farm-labor cabins.

School of Art adjunct professor Michael Cepress (MFA '06) makes his mark on the Seattle style scene.

They could have spent their week off at a beach. They could have gone home to see family. Instead, five University of Washington students spent their spring break helping in the classroom.

Katherine Beckett, a UW professor of sociology, tells how the Rethinking Punishment Radio Project got started.

The Labor Archives of Washington is creating an online resource called the Minimum Wage History Project to document the 2013-2014 campaign that succeeded in mandating a $15 minimum hourly wage.

A new study by a UW psychology professor looks at transgender children ages 5 to 12.

Texts and Teachers bridges the gap between high school and college through parallel courses and campus visits.

A first-generation student from a migrant farming family, Salvador Gomez is donating his spring break to the Pipeline Project, tutoring and mentoring children in rural Washington.

The Henry Art Gallery on the University of Washington Seattle campus brought summer in with a video/yoga event.

Nora Strothman talks about a bench placed at the University of Washington in honor of her husband Bill, a graduate of economics and communication who died in a helicopter crash.

The University of Washington series bill: Youssou N’Dour, Sō Percussion, Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, Garrick Ohlsson, Martha Graham Dance Company and Jeremy Denk.

Paul Franco, acting assistant professor of philosophy, considers what a dead German philosopher would say about the drill stuck under Seattle's waterfront.

The Jacob Lawrence Gallery's new director, Scott Lawrimore, talks about the practical ideas he hopes to bring to the Jake as well as his theoretical thoughts about art here on the University of Washington Seattle campus. Find out what's been going on at the Jake since it re-opened in October and what to expect from it in the future.