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Through public events and exhibitions, connect with the UW community every week! This week, attend gallery exhibitions, watch recorded events, and more.

This week at the UW, attend a lecture on revolutionary reforms to the metric system, "Asian American Women Rising: NOT the Model Minority," and more.

This week at the UW, attend a Sports & Civil Rights History Panel, Drive-In at On the Boards, and more.

This week at the UW, attend a talk on Gender in the E.U, visit the Henry Art Gallery, and more.

Dr. Valentina Zaitseva, senior lecturer in the Russian language department, discusses the benefits of learning multiple languages.

KOMO Radio's Herb Weisbaum interviews Daniel Bessner, assistant professor of international studies at the UW, about Russian relations with the U.S.

Professor Daniel Chirot is the Herbert J. Ellison Professor of Russian and Eurasian Studies at the University of Washington’s Henry M. Jackson School.

The United Kingdom has voted by a close margin to leave the European Union.

World leaders gathered in Paris in December to forge a global agreement to limit planet-warming carbon emissions.

Jackson School faculty member Scott Montgomery says Russia is not what you think. 

Europeans should look to Brussels — not Moscow — for the source of their extremism problem, says Scott Radnitz, a professor in the Jackson School.

Daniel Chirot, a professor of Russian and Eurasian Studies at the UW’s Henry M. Jackson School, has just returned from a month in Paris and reflects on recent violence in that city.

The world has been horrified but also puzzled by the rise of ISIS. How does one comprehend its brutality and success? What is its likely path?

Professor Scott Radnitz on what will happen in the region when the current crop of leaders leave the stage.

“Yes, there is life after retirement, though sometimes I think it will be the death of me,” jokes Dan Waugh, who continues to travel to far-flung locations for his research. Waugh is one of four emeritus faculty, all from the College of Arts and Sciences, selected as Mellon Emeritus Fellows.