The Center is very pleased to welcome our new work study student, Lucas Contreras. Lucas has just started his first year at the University of Washington. His intended major is microbiology. He is interested in disease research and public health. Lucas went to Niagara Falls once as a child, and this has been his only

In July 2018 Consul for Political, Economic and Public Affairs from the Consulate General of Canada, Seattle, Robert Kerr, provided a Canadian perspective on global populism at the 2018 Community College Master Teacher Institute.

The Korea Maritime Institute (KMI), Canadian Studies Center, Global Studies Center, and East Asia Center, and the Aleut International Association (AIA) partnered to offer a workshop “Unangax̂: Maritime People in a Modern World” held in Unalaska in the Aleutian Islands. The workshop brought together representatives from KMI, AIA, and local Aleut organizations to better understand

From June 18 to 27, 2018, the Pacific Northwest Canadian Studies Consortium (PNWCSC) led a professional development training—a ten-day experiential field course to many sites on the Upper Columbia River in Washington State and British Columbia. Participants included four academics, four graduate students, and two independent scholars from PNWCSC organizations. It was supported by the

2 June 2017 – International Policy Institute Arctic Fellows Symposium on Indigenous Influences in Arctic Affairs.