Diversity

Selin Gülgöz, psychology professor, discusses the results of a UW study on gender identity in transgender children.

The University of Washington's graduate school will be getting a new Indigenous studies program, housed within the College of Arts and Sciences.

Dr. Devin Naar, chair of the Sephardic studies program at the Jackson School, discusses Ladino, a language spoken by Sephardic Jews, many of whom lived in the Seattle area.

Charles Johnson, a professor in English, is featured on new American Psychological Association diversity posters.

The School of Art + Art History + Design's Jacob Lawrence Gallery is delighted to announce that Marisa Williamson will be its 2020 Jacob Lawrence Legacy Resident.

Curators at the Burke Museum are also academic faculty, which translates to unparalleled opportunities for UW students.

In the late '60s, a couple of UC Berkeley students, including UW English Professor Shawn Wong, were in search of Asian-American writers, when they learned about the work of John Okada.

UW senior Racquel West has always loved museums. Now she spends nearly every day in one.  

College of Arts & Sciences faculty won the Best History in the 2019 Association for Recorded Sound Collections Awards of Excellence for their bilingual book.

This week in the arts, attend a Chamber Dance Company concert, view photographs from the Henry’s collections, reflect on the race of contemporary ballet, and more.

Valerie Curtis-Newton, a leading Seattle director and UW drama professor weighs in on the surge of Black Women playwrights producing in Seattle.

Programs to support current and future Native American students, along with both undergraduate and graduate research in the Indigenous humanities, will benefit from this grant.

How the self-proclaimed lover of life, Jordan Nicholson (BA, Drawing & Painting, 2012), followed his passions to become an accomplished photographer, artist and man about town.

Professor Ann Nelson, who held the Kenneth K. Young Chair of Physics and was a tireless advocate for diversity in the field, died from a fall while backpacking in the Alpine Lakes Wilderness on August 4, 2019. Professor Nelson was a brilliant theoretical physicist who specialized in particle physics and cosmology and had been at the University of Washington since 1994. She was a member of the National Academy of Sciences and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and was a recipient of the J.J. Sakurai prize for theoretical particle physics from the American Physical Society.

'Butterfly Lovers' is presented by American Asian Performing Arts Theater, a local nonprofit founded by dancer/choreographer Li Hengda, a UW MFA graduate.