Undergraduate Education

  • Students put GIS skills to use on social justice projects

    The juniors and seniors in Elwood’s GIS Workshop course are applying lessons learned in class to projects with local nonprofits ranging from food banks to criminal justice organizations.
    05/21/2015 | UW Today
  • Senior Josh Kim Co-authors Paper Published in the "American Economic Review Papers and Proceedings"

    Economics senior Joshua Kim is hardly a fan of sports — but his knack for digging up information about the NFL and its players became his ticket to presenting a preliminary paper at the AEA.
    05/15/2015 | Department of Economics
  • Shedding the Blockers

    How massive Washington defensive tackle Danny Shelton worked through an unimaginable tragedy and became a top-flight NFL prospect

    04/22/2015 | Grantland
  • UW Stroum Center to host Spring Research Symposium May 1

    The UW Stroum Center for Jewish Studies will host its third annual Spring Research Symposium 9:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. Friday, May 1, in room 214 of the HUB.
    04/20/2015 | UW Today
  • Join Koru @ UW A&S to jumpstart your career!

    The University of Washington College of Arts & Sciences is teaming up with Koru to host a two-week, immersive career accelerator. 

    04/17/2015 | College of Arts & Sciences
  • College Confidence in the High School Classroom

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

    March 2015 Perspectives
  • Student wins prestigious Luce Scholarship

    Varsha Govindaraju, a senior student majoring in anthropology and law, societies, and justice with minors in human rights and diversity was recently selected as a 2015-16 Luce Scholar.

    Undergraduate Academic Affairs
  • Jumpstart Your College Experience

    Through immersive and intensive freshman study abroad in León, Spain you can take your first steps toward a transformative undergraduate experience at UW.

    02/27/2015 | College of Arts & Sciences
  • From the Dean

    A&S Dean Robert Stacey discusses the College's plans to prepare undergraduates for employment—long before they graduate.

    January 2015 Perspectives
  • A Bumpy Road for Citizenship

    Would you have been eligible for U.S. citizenship in the late 1700s? The late 1800s? A new course looks at evolving citizenship laws and what they say about our nation.

    December 2014 Perspectives
  • A Creative Marriage of Art and Math

    A mathematician and artist, married for decades, teach a course that explores the creative process at the core of both disciplines.

    October 2014 Perspectives
  • A Sweet Milestone for Musical Theater

    Sweet Charity, the inaugural production of the UW's new interdisciplinary Musical Theater program, opens November 14.

    October 2014 Perspectives
  • What the *#@$&*?

    Got your attention? Turns out swear words provide unique insights into how language works.

    October 2014 Perspectives
  • Experiencing the Real Tahiti

    Undergraduates in an immersive summer program in Tahiti looked beyond the tourist appeal of French Polynesia to the implications of it being a French colony.

    September 2014 Perspectives
  • From the Dean

    Dean Robert Stacey reflects on his stay in León, Spain, where he spent time with entering freshmen through a new Arts & Sciences program.

    September 2014 Perspectives