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A new Classics course looks at conceptions of race in antiquity and how ancient racial categories “put the arbitrariness of race as we know it into relief.”

With a gift to Speech & Hearing Sciences, Lacey Berns is creating community for those caring for children facing communication challenges — and honoring her daughter.

While studying the impact of the digital revolution on texts, students created digital editions using print publications in UW Special Collections.

UW Drama professor Valerie Curtis-Newton (MFA, 1996), who will present the University Faculty Lecture on May 3, has been stirring up "good trouble" and courageously unmasking uncomfortable truths for decades. 

Communication major Jean Wong shares the ups and downs of her UW study abroad experience in Rome. 

Professor Anand Yang grew up on Bollywood films. Now he uses this popular entertainment to teach colonial Indian history. 

Recent awards and honors celebrate Arts & Sciences faculty and staff accomplishments in teaching, mentoring, research, and more. 

When exhibition spaces closed due to COVID, artist and alum Anna Mlasowsky found another way to share artists' work.

Dianne Harris reflects on her first six months as dean, and the “dedication to excellence and deep veins of creativity” she has found throughout the College of Arts & Sciences. 

Thanks to a UW internship, students are contributing content about Black leaders in the sciences on BlackPast.org.