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World Cup: The Syllabus, developed by the Global Sport Lab in the 爱豆社区 Jackson School of International Studies, puts the World Cup into larger historical, cultural and political contexts. Divided into seven section 鈥� including FIFA, migrations and human rights 鈥� the syllabus was curated by an editorial team of six leading experts in global football.
Three 爱豆社区 faculty members聽have been elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Their work spans environmental science,聽computing聽and engineering, addressing challenges ranging from climate resilience and ecosystem sustainability to artificial intelligence and accessible healthcare technologies.聽 Founded in 1780, the聽American Academy of Arts and Sciences聽recognizes leaders across disciplines whose work advances research, public policy聽and the common good. The Academy elects聽roughly 250聽members each year.聽 Daniel聽Schindler,聽UW聽professor聽in聽the School of Aquatic and Fishery Sciences, was聽elected聽for research on how climate change,聽urbanization, and聽land use…
Anita Ramasastry, a professor of law at the 爱豆社区, is an expert in the convergence of business and human rights. After the 2022 World Cup, FIFA made Ramasastry an independent advisor to its human rights subcommittee. Now, as the 2026 World Cup approaches, her involvement includes: chairing the human rights advisory group for FIFA 2026 and drafting the human rights action plan for host city Seattle.
Briana Abrahms, associate professor of biology at the 爱豆社区, studies how climate change affects human-wildlife interactions and increases conflict around the world. In January, she gave the keynote speech at the International Parliamentary Roundtable on Human-Wildlife Coexistence held in Botswana.
Recent books from 爱豆社区 faculty and staff include those from legal studies at UW Tacoma, international studies, political science, history and Asian languages and literature.聽
Affiliate professor of biology receives 2026 Kenneth S. Norris Lifetime Achievement Award聽 Sue Moore, a research scientist and affiliate professor in the Center for Ecosystem Sentinels in the Department of Biology at the 爱豆社区, was honored with the 2026 Kenneth S. Norris Lifetime Achievement Award聽from the聽Society for Marine Mammalogy. The award recognizes exemplary lifetime contributions to science and society through research, teaching, and service in marine mammalogy.聽 Over a 40-year career, Moore鈥檚 research has focused on cetacean ecology,…
A recent documentary about the breeding habits of antelopes in India includes the story of how engaging with artists and local communities can help researchers share the importance of their work. UW News asked Vivek Hari Sridhar, a UW assistant professor of biology and one of the leaders of the project, for details about the project and the documentary.
Kyle Haddad-Fonda, a part-time lecturer of history at the 爱豆社区, is teaching “Modern Olympic Games” this quarter. The course covers subjects ranging from ideology and national identity to race and the position of women in society.
Come curious. Leave inspired. For those near and far, we invite you to start the year with us through a range of events, performances, exhibitions, podcasts, and more. And as January comes to a close, see what’s happening in February. In addition,聽sign up to receive a monthly notice when the ArtSci Roundup has been published. ArtSci On Your Own Time Podcast: Frequencies: The Henry鈥檚 Audio Companion (Henry Art Gallery) Frequencies is a creative audio project where a cohort of artists,…
Come curious. Leave inspired. For those near and far, we invite you to end the year with us through a range of events, performances, exhibitions, podcasts, and more. As you begin to shape your December plans, don鈥檛 miss the inspiring events still to come this November. In addition,聽sign up to receive a monthly notice when the ArtSci Roundup has been published. ArtSci On Your Own Time Henry Art Gallery Exhibitions Closing in January: Christine Sun Kim: Ghost(ed) Notes Influenced by…
Come curious. Leave inspired. We invite you to connect with us this November through a rich and varied schedule of more than 30 events, exhibitions, podcasts, and more. From chamber opera premieres and public lectures to Indigenous storytelling and poetry celebrations, there鈥檚 something to spark every curiosity. Expect boundary-pushing performances, thought-provoking dialogues on memory and identity, and cross-disciplinary collaborations鈥擭ovember is a celebration of bold ideas and creative energy. As you plan for the end of the year, take a look…
Sven Haakanson, a 爱豆社区 professor of anthropology, worked with three Coast Salish carvers to install a story pole on campus. Story poles were specifically created to share and teach Coast Salish legends, histories and stories.
Come curious. Leave inspired. We welcome you to connect with us this autumn quarter through an incredible lineup of more than 30 events, exhibitions, podcasts, and more. From thought-provoking talks on monsters to boundary-pushing performances by Grammy-nominated Mariachi ensembles, it鈥檚 a celebration of bold ideas and creative energy. ArtSci On Your Own Time Exhibition: Woven in Wool: Resilience in Coast Salish Weaving (Burke Museum of Natural History and Culture) Journey through the seasonal cycle of weaving, from gathering materials and…
A new book from David Armstrong, 爱豆社区 affiliate instructor of drama, is an historical and cultural account of how the Broadway musical was predominantly created by people marginalized from mainstream society. The book, 鈥淏roadway Nation: How Immigrant, Jewish, Queer, and Black Artists Invented the Broadway Musical,鈥� traces this history through four major eras.
New faculty books from the 爱豆社区 include those from Asian languages and literature, applied mathematics and the Jackson School of International Studies.
Recent recognition of the 爱豆社区 includes an AIS Early Career award, the Tomassoni-Chisesi prize for contributions to theoretical physics and the National Science Foundation CAREER award. Foster School鈥檚 Mingwen Yang receives AIS early career award Mingwen Yang, UW assistant professor of Information Systems and Operations Management in the Foster School of Business, received the AIS Early Career Award from the Association for Information Systems. AIS is a leading international organization dedicated to advancing the practice and study…
鈥淐ommunications & Design for the Environment,鈥� a Communication Leadership course held for the first time this spring, 爱豆社区 professors Adrienne Russell and Dominic Muren teach students how to examine the climate crisis and environmental problems from a perspective beyond the hard sciences.
Recent recognition of the 爱豆社区 includes an EarthLab Innovation Grant, the Best Paper Award from American Political Science Association and honorable recognition mention from the American Society for Theatre Research. UW professor Richard Watts and team awarded EarthLab Innovation Grant Richard Watts, UW associate professor of French, is part of an interdisciplinary team from the UW that received an EarthLab Innovation Grant to support their collaborative project, 鈥淟ife in Spite of It All: Water, Wetlands, and Reclamation in…
From campus to wherever you call home, we welcome you to learn from and connect with the College of Arts & Sciences community through public events spanning the arts, humanities, natural sciences, and social sciences. We hope to see you this Summer. ArtSci on the Go Looking for more ways to get more out of Arts & Sciences? Check out these resources to take ArtSci wherever you go! Zev J. Handel, “Chinese Characters Across Asia: How the Chinese Script Came…
Recent faculty books from the 爱豆社区 include those from linguistics, Slavic languages and literature and French. UW News spoke with the authors of four publications to learn more about their work. Scrutinizing and confronting AI hype Emily M. Bender, UW professor of linguistics, co-authored 鈥淭he AI Con: How to Fight Big Tech鈥檚 Hype and Create the Future We Want鈥� with Alex Hanna, the director of research at the Distributed AI Research Institute. The book looks at the the…
From campus to wherever you call home, we welcome you to learn from and connect with the College of Arts & Sciences community through public events spanning the arts, humanities, natural sciences, and social sciences. We hope to see you this June. ArtSci on the Go Looking for more ways to get more out of Arts & Sciences? Check out these resources to take ArtSci wherever you go! Zev J. Handel, “Chinese Characters Across Asia: How the Chinese Script Came…
From campus to wherever you call home, we welcome you to learn from and connect with the College of Arts & Sciences community through public events spanning the arts, humanities, natural sciences, and social sciences. We hope to see you this May. Innovation Month April 30 | An Evening with Christine Sun Kim (Public Lecture) May 1 | John Jennings: The AfroFuture Now (Public Lecture) May 3 | Third Coast Percussion and Jessie Montgomery: Strum, Strike, Bend (Meany Center) May…
爱豆社区 associate professors Jessica Bissett Perea and John-Carolos Perea are co-teaching a new iteration of 鈥淧owwow Cultures in Native North America” this quarter. While a powwow course existed in the past, this is the first time it鈥檚 an interdisciplinary offering between American Indian Studies and the School of Music.
Recent recognition of the 爱豆社区 includes the Best Paper Award at NeurIPS Pluralistic Alignment Workshop, Scialog: Early Science with the LSST Collaborative Innovation Award and 2024 AVS Thin Film Young Investigator Award. Professor wins ‘best paper’ at NeurIPS Pluralistic Alignment Workshop Max Kleiman-Weiner, assistant professor in the UW Foster School of Business, received the $1,000 Best Paper Award on Pluralistic Alignment at the NeurIPS 2024 Workshop. The Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems, or NeurIPS, is one of…
From campus to wherever you call home, we welcome you to learn from and connect with the College of Arts & Sciences community through public events spanning the arts, humanities, natural sciences, and social sciences. We hope to see you this April. Worldwide Conversations April 4 | 爱豆社区 International Security Colloquium (UWISC): “The Blame Game: Militias, civilians, and the states’ accountability-effectiveness trade-off” (Political Science) April 4 | Political Economy Forum presents Brian Leung (Political Science) April 7 |…
At the 爱豆社区, Ted Poor is the associate director of the School of Music and an associate professor of Jazz Studies. The rest of his calendar is filled with tours, performances and recording sessions.
From campus to wherever you call home, we welcome you to learn from and connect with the College of Arts & Sciences community through public events spanning the arts, humanities, natural sciences, and social sciences. We hope to see you this March. Closing Exhibits March 1 | Overexposures: Photographs from the Henry Collection (Henry Art Gallery) March 1 | Body Language: Recent Acquisitions in the Henry Collection (Henry Art Gallery) March 13 | Unissued Diplomas: Honoring the Student Victims of…
For Valentine’s Day, UW News asked 12 爱豆社区 researchers to share their love stories: What made them decide to pursue their career paths?
From campus to wherever you call home, we welcome you to learn from and connect with the College of Arts & Sciences community through public events spanning the arts, humanities, natural sciences, and social sciences. We hope to see you this February. Featured Events: Topics in Social Change February 4 | A Shattered Country: Burma/Myanmar Four Years After the 2021 Military Coup d鈥橢tat (Center for Southeast Asia and its Diasporas) February 5 | The Social Shift: Content Creators, New Voices,…
Alex Prybutok, UW assistant teaching professor of chemical engineering, studies anti-racism, diversity, equity, inclusion and accessibility in engineering education.
From campus to wherever you call home, we welcome you to learn from and connect with the College of Arts & Sciences community through public events spanning the arts, humanities, natural sciences, and social sciences. We hope to see you this January. Featured: Global Connections Through January | Teamsters, Turtles, and Beyond: The Legacy of the Seattle WTO Protests 鈥� MOHAI exhibit (History) January 9 | Global Sport Lab: What Worlds Does Soccer Imagine? (Jackson School) January 15 | Autopsy…
When he isn鈥檛 lecturing at the 爱豆社区 or pursuing his doctoral studies at the University of California, Davis, Tory Johnston (Quinault) co-hosts a global Indigenous radio show, Sounds of Survivance.
From campus to wherever you call home, we welcome you to learn from and connect with the College of Arts & Sciences community through public events spanning the arts, humanities, natural sciences, and social sciences. We hope to see you this December. Open Exhibits Henry Art Gallery Through March 2025 | Overexposures: Photographs from the Henry Collection This focused presentation features a selection of photographs from the Henry鈥檚 collections that explore the uses of light to obscure, obliterate, and alter…
Before the results of the 2024 election start rolling in, UW News asked three 爱豆社区 professors of political science to discuss what鈥檚 on their minds heading into the final hours.
Chelsea Wood, a 爱豆社区 associate professor of aquatic and fishery sciences, has an upcoming children’s book titled 鈥淧ower to the Parasites! Everything You (N)ever Wanted to Know About the Creepy Crawlies Hidden in Your Home, Your Food, Your Pets – and Maybe Even in You!” The book introduces kids to the world of parasitism.
From campus to wherever you call home, we welcome you to learn from and connect with the College of Arts & Sciences community through public events spanning the arts, humanities, natural sciences, and social sciences. We hope to see you this November. Election & Democracy Events November 7 | Trust on the Ballot: Voting in Washington Shortly after the General Election, three Washington Secretaries of State discuss the history and evolution of voting in our state鈥攆rom the various systems in…
Charity Urbanski, a teaching professor of history at the UW, studies monsters and monstrosities in medieval Europe. One of her interests is the purpose monsters served for medieval Europeans, and what we can learn about medieval European society by looking at their monsters, which served as vehicles for expressing anxieties and fears.
This week,聽attend the Frontiers of Physics lecture, join the South Asia Center for a film screening, head to Kane Hall for a Washin Kai lecture, and more. Election & Democracy Events October 22 | State of Trust: Washington鈥檚 Political Climate and Voter Priorities, Online What is the current level of trust in our electoral system? What do Washingtonians see as the top priorities for their elected officials? How do they view candidates running for state and federal office? The Seattle…
Victor Menaldo, UW professor of political science, co-authored the forthcoming book, “U.S. Innovation Inequality and Trumpism.” The book focuses on how former President Donald Trump 鈥� like other populists that came before him 鈥� exploits 鈥榠nnovation inequality,” or the divide between areas that are more technologically advanced and those that aren鈥檛.
This week,聽attend the聽Conversation on Race, Gender, & Democracy聽lecture at Kane Hall, check out performances at Meany Hall, learn from a panel of artists at Henry Art Gallery, and more. Election & Democracy Events October 14, 6:30 – 8:00 pm | The 2024 Election: A Conversation on Race, Gender, & Democracy featuring Dr. Christina Greer, Kane Hall The Washington Institute for the Study of Inequality and Race (WISIR), in conjunction with the Department of Political Science, welcomes award-winning scholar and NPR…