“Inuit with our fellow Indigenous Peoples are not stakeholders. We are the main players.” This is how J. Okalik Eegeesiak, current chair of the Inuit Circumpolar Council, ended her February

The passing of the Arctic Council chairmanship gavel from Canada to the U.S. in 2015 was a highly anticipated event. The last two chairmanship terms were headed by two extraordinary individuals: the

“While Aung San Suu Kyi remains, for many, a powerful symbol of the struggle for democracy, the time has come for stronger international pressure to condemn her moral abstention regarding

“…being able to converse in ‘Taglish,’ the commonly spoken combination of Tagalog and English, has allowed people I’ve spoken with to represent their experience accurately, without being white-washed.” Hannah Bassett,

“It seemed truly like the ending of a world. Seabirds were dying by the thousands in the muck. Vast stocks of salmon and herring and halibut would perish next.” This description in National

Many thought he was sick; some feared he was dead. But in October 1987, after 51 days spent planning in seclusion, Soviet Union leader Mikhail Gorbachev emerged in Murmansk and

Studying Arabic with the FLAS has also impacted my experience here by allowing me to build friendships and make connections with Arabic-speaking students on a deeper-level. Perry Keziah is a

“My UW experience provided me with the intellectual community and fieldwork opportunities to combine my unique perspectives as a mountaineer and development scholar to fight for a more thoughtful and

“Learning Hebrew has opened the door to Israel Studies, but also to languages like Ladino and Yiddish, which are often written in Hebrew letters. Knowledge of the Hebrew alphabet has

“To the best of my ability, I completed my task whilst abroad. I met new people, I learned more Russian, and I feel that I have come to understand the