“The University of Washington has received a $750,000 grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation for its area studies programs, enabling eight Title VI National Resource Centers (NRCs) in the Jackson School of International Studies to continue their programs for students, educators, and the community.” See College of Arts and Sciences press release.

Canadian Studies Center, March Report, 2013 According to The Economist, “the resource-rich Arctic is changing faster than anywhere on Earth, and its biggest transformation is just ahead. Due to climate change, the polar ice cap is shrinking and floating summer ice is projected to disappear altogether, setting alarm bells ringing for environmentalists, but opening up

Originally posted: March 2013 According to The Economist, “the resource-rich Arctic is changing faster than anywhere on Earth, and its biggest transformation is just ahead. Due to climate change, the polar ice cap is shrinking and floating summer ice is projected to disappear altogether, setting alarm bells ringing for environmentalists, but opening up new perspectives

Originally posted: March 2013 Sarah Segal, a teacher at Hood River Middle School in Oregon, attended the National Council for the Social Studies Conference in Seattle, WA this year for the wonderful professional development opportunities offered there. New Social Studies Content Standards were recently adopted by the Oregon Department of Education (ODE) and include a

Originally posted: March 2013 Joël’s talk looked at how Canada’s foreign policy for the circumpolar world started to emerge in the 1950s as part of bilateral Canadian and American defense relations in the North American Arctic. While both countries continued to engage bilaterally in that region throughout the 1960s till the 1980s, mainly (but not

The University of Washington and Fulbright Canada are partnering to host two scholars in 2012-13 – a Fulbright Canada Visiting Chair in Canadian Studies, Sari Graben, Queen’s University, and a Fulbright Chair in Innovation, Yan Cimon, l’Université Laval. Sari Graben, LL.B. LL.M. Ph.D., currently serves as an Arctic Policy Post-Doctoral Fellow at the Queen’s Institute

Cody Case, FLAS student 2007-2008, is the new Global Awareness Program coordinator for the Office of International Programsat the University of Kansas. He received his bachelor’s and master’s degrees in ethnomusicology, the anthropology of music, from the University of Washington and conducted various research projects in Tunisia, France, Canada and Ghana. Case is a strong advocate

Jennifer Grosman did not foresee that the highlight of her studies would continue after her graduation but found that Canadian Studies is just too irresistible! As a general international studies major, Jennifer chose to join the Task Force on Arctic Governance with little knowledge of the area but a desire to understand more on the emerging

Original posting: February 2013 University of Washington (UW) undergraduates will now have more opportunities to study in British Columbia, Canada, thanks to the Gary and Consuelo Corbett Canada U.S. Fellowship Program. The program will provide funding for a full academic year abroad at either the University of British Columbia (UBC) or the University of Victoria