News: Community Impact

UW anthropologist connects communities to archive of Khmer Rouge-era Cambodia
March 8, 2019
An incredible group of birth professionals and advocates from the local Somali-American community on the completion of the Safe Mother Project Great Start Professional Community Childbirth Educators Workshop (#StrongFamilies) conducted with Parent Trust
Profs. Chapman and Pfeiffer Collaborate with the Somali Health Board on a research and advocacy project for immigrant and refugee communities in Southeast SeattleSeattle
February 22, 2019
Journey behind bars to aid in prisoners' learning
August 6, 2018
Photo taken at WMCA's youth-led community event Beautify the Block. Photos are by Sara Bernard from the Seattle Weekly
Anthropology at Work in the World … Somali-style
May 9, 2018
Nuclear trauma still fresh for Seattle’s Marshallese community on 64th anniversary of Bikini Atoll tests
March 6, 2018
Nuclear Fallout in the Marshall Islands
December 26, 2017
Why Australians Keep Getting Older
December 6, 2017
The Ancient One returns home 
June 7, 2017
Burke Museum, Research Family, and the Disney film, Moana
June 7, 2017
Cooking in the Husky Den Kitchen Kathryn Steele, unidentified student, Kirsten Lirio, Diane Guerra (undergraduate advisor), Gabrielle Son, Morgan Hale (assistant undergraduate advisor), Kyla Hasenpflug Photo by Ema Simion
The Kitchen Classroom: Service Learning at Tent City 3
June 7, 2017
Workshop 1 Collaboration on Heritage in the Salish Sea. Panel Discussion facilitated by Sara Gonzalez. Photo credit: Sven Haakanson
New Collaborations in Indigenous and Community-Based Archeology: The Preserving the Past Together series
June 7, 2017
1950's photo of two women in front of a house, with faces blurred
A Cup of Kindness: Janelle Taylor Researches Dementia and Friendship
June 5, 2017
Early human fossils found in South African cave system
May 9, 2017
Why treating animals may be important in fighting resurgent tropical disease
April 13, 2017
Steve Goodreau
The Impact of PrEP
September 19, 2016
The completed Angyaaq frame in the Burke, December 2015
Conversation with Sven Haakanson — The Angyaaq Project
June 16, 2016
Nuclear summit held in Oregon
June 9, 2016
Vita Vea
Portrait of a researcher
June 8, 2016
4 UW professors elected as fellows in the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
April 20, 2016
UW Awards of Excellence
Big honors to A&S in UW Awards of Excellence
March 28, 2016
UW Intellectual House
UW increases focus on Indigenous knowledge
March 7, 2016
Men and women give different answers when asked who’s the smartest in class
February 16, 2016
See new discoveries at the mysterious City of the Jaguar
February 9, 2016
The UW Chamber Singers rehearse Handel's Messiah.
A Vision for the Burke
December 8, 2015
Barack Obama’s Mother … and the UW Department of Anthropology
April 1, 2015
Faustine Dufka, wearing a Soulumination T-shirt
Anthropology Honors Program Gains University-wide Reputation
April 1, 2013
Faustine Dufka, wearing a Soulumination T-shirt
Undergraduate Honors Program—Faustina Dufka
April 1, 2013
Faculty | Staff News 2013
April 1, 2013
Peter Nute, In Memoriam
April 2, 2012
Foraged urban foodstuffs on a plate
Foraging Wild Foods in Urban Spaces
April 1, 2011
A man hanging over the side of a dumpster
Dumpsters, Forbidden Fruit, and the Social Afterlife of Things
April 1, 2011
Hare skeleton drawing
Every Hare Counts: Culinary Processing of Jackrabbits at Antelope Cave, Arizona
April 1, 2011
Student practicing field archaeology
Collaborations in Southeast Asian Archaeology Flourish
November 29, 2010
People in line at a "health camp" in Nepal
The Politics of Nepal's "Health Camps"
April 1, 2009
Dissertation Writing Workshop Participants
Dissertation Writing Workshop in Indonesia
April 1, 2009