The College of Arts & Sciences is home to many distinguished researchers, faculty, and students. Their work and contributions have been featured in media outside of the UW and across the country. Take a look at some ArtSci features from this past Winter Quarter. From new telescopes to UW in high schools, ArtSci in the Media has something for everyone!
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Yoli Ngandali received the Wenner-Gren's Engaged Research Grant for 2022. The award will support Yoli's dissertation research and collaborative partnership, "Meaning is in the Making: (Re)connecting with Museum Collections for Indigenous Art Revitalization." Yoli's collaboration with the Confederated Tribes of Grand Ronde and Columbia River carvers and artists is part of the first cohort of grantees for the WG Engaged Research Grant, a new grant program that WG established in…
By Stevan Harrell, Professor Emeritus
When I arrived at the University of Washington as a brash, green assistant professor in 1974, Charles “Biff” Keyes took me under his wing. He was an associate professor then, already a well-known scholar of Thai society and religion, schooled by years of field research in several regions of the country. His stature and reputation continued to grow for decades after that, and his scholarly output grew to (by rough count) 21 books and innumerable articles and…
By Stevan Harrell, Professor Emeritus
The Anthropology Department lost one of its most valuable and colorful members when Principal Lecturer Emeritus James Green died last May. Jim was a celebrated teacher, author of two widely-used textbooks, a pioneer in international educational exchanges, an athlete, a storyteller, a great-grandfather, and a faithful friend and revered mentor to many generations of students and junior faculty.
Jim was from the other other Washington—Spokane to be precise—…
Gov. Jay Inslee has named Leonard Forsman to the University of Washington Board of Regents. Forsman is the first native person to serve as a UW regent. He is chairman of the Suquamish Tribe, where he has served on the tribal council for more than 30 years. Forsman obtained a BA at the University of Washington in Anthropology in 1987.
Featured on Washington Governor Jay Inslee News
The Department of Anthropology mourns the passing of two members of our community: Dr. William Haglund and Dr. Katherine Taylor. As biological anthropologists with a focus on forensic anthropology, both devoted their lives to giving a voice to the voiceless, providing (some) answers to families, and ensuring that the perpetrators of great violence were held accountable for their crimes.
After working for the King County Medical Examiner’s Office and earning a PhD in then-physical (and now…
Since 1994, alumni and friends in the Multicultural Alumni Partnership have worked together to promote diversity at the UW and address issues of equity and diversity on our campuses and in our community. This year’s promising scholars range from early undergraduates who are still zeroing in on a major to those pursuing graduate and professional degrees.Featured on UW Magazine
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David Carlson, a PhD student in archaeology, received the Graduate School Presidential Dissertation Fellowship for 2020-21 for his dissertation entitled, “Residence, Resistance, and Racialization: A Historical Archaeology of Japanese American Daily Life at Barneston, Washington.”
Erin Gamble, a PhD student in archaeology, received an NSF Dissertation Improvement Grant for her dissertation research, “Trade and Entanglement in Precolonial Hokkaido: The Formation of the Okhotsk…
