Graduate Education

The UW has launched a new initiave to promote faculty diversity, equity, and inclusion, including $5 million for faculty hiring.

UW is attempting to combat the severe underrepresentation of minorities in science and engineering faculty through a new postdoctoral program.

Ian Kretzler, a Ph.D. anthropology graduate, and Samson Jenekhe, professor of chemical engineering and chemistry, have been recently awarded honors.

Graduate student writing projects can be massive and isolating. Odegaard Writing & Research Center offers programs to help.

“Although extensive literature on leadership skills and practices already exists, here we reflect on and define the main roles of higher education leaders in the time of crisis through the lens of the ongoing global events,” write Audeliz Matias of New York Empire State College, Yoly Gonzalez and Jerusalem Rivera-Wilson of State University of New York at Buffalo, Christina Vargas of Suffolk County Community College, Dalia A. Muller of Dutchess Community College, Angela Rios of the University at Albany and Anibal Torres of SUNY Morrisville. UW President Ana Mari Cauce is mentioned.

Brianna Yamasaki, Ph.D. student in psychology, explains why adults can have a harder time learning a new language.

Brianna Yamasaki, Ph.D. student in psychology, writes on why it can be more difficult for adults to learn a new language.

E.J. Koh, a doctoral student in English at the UW, has translated all 49 letters from her Korean mother into English and used them as the skeleton for her brief, but time- and continent-spanning memoir, “The Magical Language of Others,” published in early 2020 with Portland publisher Tin House.

In honor of MLK Day, the UW asked Black students, staff, and faculty to respond to the prompt, “What does MLK Day mean to you in 2021?”

A new UW study has found that "prototypical" women who look and act more feminine are more likely to believed when making allegations of sexual harassment.

A University of Washington-led study, involving more than 4,000 people, found that people were more likely to think “prototypical” women — who are conventionally attractive and appear and act feminine — would be harassed. Bryn Bandt-Law, a doctoral student in psychology at the UW, and Cheryl Kaiser, professor of psychology at the UW, are quoted.

Women who don’t fit female stereotypes of look or personality are perceived as less credible when lodging sexual harassment claims, according to a study published Thursday in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. Bryn Bandt-Law, a doctoral student in psychology at the UW, and Cheryl Kaiser, professor of psychology at the UW, are quoted.

The University of Washington is recognized as one of the top universities in the world that offers Hindi courses.

Twenty moments from a year like no other — captured through the lenses of UW photographers.

The College of Arts & Sciences is featured in this collection of video highlights produced by UW News in 2020.