UW and the Community

After leaving a job as a television news producer in 1990, Dr. Sheila D. Brooks (Communication, ’78) started her own company producing news stories and documentaries. 

Study abroad programs are back, and with them comes the opportunity to become studious explorers in a new location. To see what adventures might await you on your own trip, join photographer Claire McCreery as she walks us through her time in the Czech Republic with the Comparative History of Ideas program, "History, Memory, and Human Rights in Central Europe.”

“Seattle is perfectly positioned to have a thriving fringe theater scene,” said Nikki Yeboah, who last year became the University of Washington School of Drama’s new assistant professor of playwriting, the school’s first full-time faculty hire in playwriting since 1993. “That’s an amazing opportunity for artists to make works that are nontraditional or challenging or different.”

The 1998 drama graduate receives the nation's highest poetry honor.

Maya Sonenberg, professor of English at the University of Washington, highlights common feelings that are often silenced due to shame and societal expectations in her new short story collection, "Bad Mothers, Bad Daughters."

Abdiel Jacobsen, a graduate in the Department of Dance and a former Martha Graham dancer, found freedom in hustle, which offers a progressive, gender-neutral vision of partnered social dance.

Ada Limón, a UW School of Drama alum, is the 24th U.S. poet laureate.

Ada Limón, a UW School of Drama alum, is the 24th U.S. poet laureate.

“I’m gobsmacked,” says Bruce Balick, professor emeritus of astronomy at the University of Washington, of the images from the James Webb Space Telescope.

Federalism, queer history, the impact of the Russian Revolution on Jewish communities, and the evolution of Filipinx American studies are among the subjects of recent and upcoming books by UW faculty.

New research led by University of Washington professors James Krieger and Melissa Knox found that sweetened beverage taxes redistributed dollars from higher- to lower-income households.

Abdiel Jacobsen, a former Martha Graham dancer, found freedom in hustle, which offers a progressive, gender-neutral vision of partnered social dance. Abdiel Jacobsen, a graduate student at the UW, is quoted.

James Bardeen, who helped elucidate the properties and behavior of black holes, setting the stage for what has been called the golden age of black hole astrophysics, died on June 20 in Seattle. He was 83. Bardeen was professor emeritus of physics at the UW.

A roundup of Washington public figures' reactions to the overturn of Roe v. Wade. Bettina Judd, associate professor of gender, women and sexuality studies at the UW, is quoted.

Bettie Luke and others last week denounced Sound Transit (ST)’s plans to build through the CID and keep the area occupied with noise, pollution, traffic, and business blockages for a decade. This is yet another invasion in a long series of assaults upon their community. Connie So, teaching professor of American ethnic studies, is quoted.