Study Abroad

For Martin Horst, with majors in French and linguistics, language is a bridge to other cultures.

Amid the attempted military coup in Turkey, the UW has confirmed the safety of one of three students in the area. Resat Kasaba, director of the UW’s Jackson School of International Studies, is quoted.

As tanks and protesters flood the streets of Istanbul and Ankara, the University of Washington is attempting to reach three students and one faculty member in the country.

City councils, local businesses and Indian tribes have turned against plans for the nation’s largest oil terminal at the Port of Vancouver.

For 2015 University of Washington graduate Benjamin Lee, the opportunity to participate in the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace Junior Fellowship program is a dream come true.

An A&S board member shares her experience of traveling in Rome with English professor Shawn Wong and Office of Minority Affairs and Diversity students.

Ph.D. student Tracey Chaplin published a collaborative op-ed discussing sea level rise, superstorms and drought, and the potential to decouple water rights from tenancy. 

Almost all of the UW Fulbright scholar are majors with the College of Arts & Sciences.

An excavation of an ancient city in Honduras has yielded a trove of remarkable stone artifacts. Two UW anthropology students are part of the team.

Jane Yang, a UW sophomore who grew up in Shanghai, is teaching the UW men’s basketball team about her language and culture. Now, she’s looking at her home — and herself — with fresh eyes.

For 20 years, UW students have participated in field research on a tropical island that's home to more than a thousand monkeys.

The University of Washington Center for Human Rights will hold a daylong conference Oct. 5 at the UW School of Law, underscoring a crucial international theme.

A new video looks back on the outstanding work of our students, faculty, and alumni in 2015.

A first-generation Latina student from Yakima, WA, Annabel Cholico, ’08, is an alumna of the Rome Academic Enrichment Program sponsored by the Office of Minority Affairs & Diversity.

KING 5 reports on the work of students who are helping search for children disappeared in El Salvador during violent conflict in the early 1980s.