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75 years after WWII, those who lived it share how it changed them, Seattle
John Findlay, history professor, is quoted in this article about the effects of WWII on Seattle and its citizens.
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Transforming How We Live, Work, and Play
Stephen Bader (UW IxD BDes 2014) and Alanna MacGowan (UW MFA 2010) work at Microsoft Envisioning and explore how people will live, work, and play five to seven years in the future.
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Local students have an eco-friendly alternative to plastic stickers on your fruits/veggies
Nature’s Label is a start-up created by five enterprising college students — Sophie Ye, Khoi Ha, Siddhant Jain and Alyssa Mell from the UW and Arya Mathew from Seattle University.
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Seattle Now: What the Fourth of July is and isn't
Quintard Taylor, a history professor emeritus and the founder of BlackPast.org, talks about the history of celebrating the Fourth of July.
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Police the Public, or Protect It? For a U.S. in Crisis, Hard Lessons From Other Countries
Megan Ming Francis, associate professor of political science, weighs in about policies that were intentionally put in place to oppress new citizenship rights of newly freed Black people.
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UW Honors students use art to disrupt the narrative on homelessness
Students in the Interdisciplinary Honors class “Citizen Acts to Challenge Poverty” collaborated with Real Change to bring the exhibit Portraits for Change.
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Studying Seattle’s Roaring ’20s history might help us get through this next decade
History Professor James Gregory discusses how looking back at Seattle's 1920s may help us in the 2020s.
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This Year in Focus: 19 for 2019
Students and professors show the diverse research, opportunities, and learning at the UW through this photoset.
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Not so far, far away: How the Star Wars galaxy falls short of the real-life search for planets
Rory Barnes, assistant professor of astronomy, discusses the feasibility of aspects of the galaxy in which sci-fi movie series Star Wars takes place in.
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The Story of the Great Japanese-American Novel
In the late '60s, a couple of UC Berkeley students, including UW English Professor Shawn Wong, were in search of Asian-American writers, when they learned about the work of John Okada.
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A Power Law Keeps the Brain’s Perceptions Balanced
Eric Shea-Brown, professor of applied mathematics, discusses the mathematical relationship in the brain’s representations of sensory information.
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ArtsUW Roundup: New Burke Opening, Marianne Stecher lectures for Scandinavian 30, Composite Gestures closing soon, and more
This week in the arts, attend a Chamber Dance Company concert, view photographs from the Henry’s collections, reflect on the race of contemporary ballet, and more.
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Hugo House documentary ‘Where the House Was’ to debut Sept. 21 at Northwest Film Forum
This film, four years in the making, was produced by Frances McCue, a senior lecturer in English, and directed by Ryan K. Adams, a filmmaker with Continuum College.
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30 years later, the human chain that 'unshackled' the Baltic nations still matters
Guntis Šmidchens, head of the Baltic Studies program, reflects upon his personal experience of this moment.
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ArtsUW Roundup: Creating Alternative Worlds, Bulrusher, Final Week of James Coupe: Exercises in Passivity and more!
Celebrate the accomplishments of the 2019 Summer Institute in the Arts and Humanities undergraduate researchers, attend Bulrusher - directed by Valerie Curtis-Newton, and more!