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Faculty | Staff News 2020
(May 12, 2020)
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Seeking Mama Amaan (Safe Motherhood) in Seattle
(May 12, 2020)
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From the Chair — Spring 2020
(May 11, 2020)
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We All Live in Bubbles Now. How Safe Is Yours?
(April 17, 2020)
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Western states band together in response to the coronavirus. And no, you can’t just visit one friend
(April 14, 2020)
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Visiting ‘just one friend’ could undo goal of social distancing, UW researchers say
(April 14, 2020)
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Feel like visiting ‘just one friend’ during COVID-19 lockdown? UW illustrates damage it could cause
(April 13, 2020)
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Visiting even 'just one friend' puts everyone at higher risk for coronavirus
(April 13, 2020)
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UW team illustrates the adverse impact of visiting ‘just one friend’ during COVID-19 lockdown
(April 13, 2020)
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Taiwan Is Beating the Coronavirus. Can the US Do the Same?
(March 18, 2020)
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Oversize vehicles offer tenuous home amid U.S. housing crisis
(March 4, 2020)
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Seattle's lack of housing forces families to live in their cars: "I reached a point where I didn't see any hope"
(March 2, 2020)
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Evolving an arch across the foot’s width helped hominids walk upright
(February 26, 2020)
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Ancient aboriginal aquaculture system older than Stonehenge uncovered by Australia wildfires
(January 21, 2020)
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This Year in Focus: 19 for 2019
(December 23, 2019)
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Mindful travel, Silicon Valley’s evolution, Schumann on viola, Seattle history — UW-authored books, music for the Husky on your list
(December 19, 2019)
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10 years after the Nobel Prize, telomeres are still a murky lead in longevity research
(December 19, 2019)
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A shower, beds for the kids and ‘French Toast Wednesdays’: New blessings for a grateful Eastside family
(November 30, 2019)
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Secret documents: China detention camps to ‘prevent escapes’
(November 24, 2019)
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As more people use RVs as homes, should cities find a place for them?
(November 23, 2019)
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Make code accessible with these cloud services
(November 5, 2019)
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The following is a statement from Dr. Holly Barker, Principal Lecturer in the UW Department of Anthropology
(October 18, 2019)
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UW books in brief: Tribal sovereignty and the courts, mentoring through fan fiction, UW Press paperback editions
(August 22, 2019)
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Faculty | Staff News 2019
(June 11, 2019)
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The Age of the Kampuchea Picture
(June 11, 2019)
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The Age of the Kampuchea Picture
(June 11, 2019)
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Visible on Ancestral Lands
(June 11, 2019)
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16 UW students awarded Fulbright fellowships
(May 30, 2019)
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High radiation levels found in giant clams near U.S. nuclear dump in Marshall Islands
(May 29, 2019)
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From the Chair — Spring 2019
(May 9, 2019)
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Men who have children later in life may prime their kids for longevity
(April 25, 2019)
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Whiting Public Engagement Seed Grant awarded to Anthropology's Jenna Grant
(April 5, 2019)
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After Mass Detentions, China Razes Muslim Communities to Build a Loyal City
(March 25, 2019)
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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
Immigrant and refugee communities in Southeast Seattle
(February 22, 2019)
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Study reconstructs Neandertal ribcage, offers new clues to ancient human anatomy
(October 30, 2018)
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Journey behind bars to aid in prisoners' learning
(August 6, 2018)
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Mexican-Origin Foods, Foodways, and Social Movements: Decolonial Perspectives receives best edited book prize from ASFS
(June 21, 2018)
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The rise and fall of a Seattle megachurch through the eyes of anthropologist
(June 18, 2018)
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Anthropology professor focuses book on the bonds between humans, animals
(June 13, 2018)
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SpongeBob's Bikini Bottom is based on a real-life test site for nuclear weapons
(June 4, 2018)
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Anthropologist explores China's changing art scene in 'Experimental Beijing'
(May 25, 2018)
A figure stands in the ruined E.J. Roye Building in Monrovia, Liberia, in 2012. All photos courtesy Danny Hoffman.
Learning to Inhabit Ruins in Postwar Liberia
(May 21, 2018)
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Faculty | Staff News 2018
(May 9, 2018)
Assistant Professor Melanie Martin
New Faculty Profile: Melanie Martin
(May 9, 2018)
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Donald K. Grayson — Renowned UW Archaeologist and Quaternary Ecologist Retiring after 43 years
(May 9, 2018)
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From the Chair — Spring 2018
(May 9, 2018)
Sex and Death on the Western Emigrant Trail: The Biology of Three American Tragedies
In Press: Sex & Death on the Western Emigrant Trail: A Biology of Three American Tragedies
(April 2, 2018)
Book cover of Experimental Beijing, by Sasha Su-Ling Welland
In the Press Experimental Beijing: Gender and Globalization in Chinese Contemporary Art
(March 15, 2018)
A Canadian scientist and amateur hunter has recreated the arrowheads used 8,000 years ago: narrow bone heads, composite bone and obsidian heads and pear-shaped flaked stone points JANICE WOOD/UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON
Stone Age man’s top tips for felling prey
(February 7, 2018)