I am a German track member of the nationally-ranked Certificate of International Studies in Business Program (CISB) at the University of Washington Foster School of Business. I, along with 13 other CISB students, attended the 2011 Pacific Northwest Economic Conference thanks to the sponsorship of the UW’s Global Business and Canadian Studies Centers. The event

I am a third-year law student and recipient of a 2010-11 Canada Studies’ Foreign Language and Area Studies Fellowship. I am particularly interested in the fields of immigration and international human rights law. This year, I will be completing a research project in which I analyze how both the United States and Canada use immigration

My research compares education reform in the United States, Canada, and France. I’m particularly in interested in the interaction between national reform policies and discourses and local initiatives – as I have been finding, there is a great deal of international and intranational specificity within the general thrust of market-based reform. The Foreign Language and

While migrating from California to Alaska, whales transit a number of local, regional, national and international jurisdictions, and the laws in these locations affect the way we manage and protect whales and their habitat. Dr. Rob Williams, 2009-10 Canada- U.S. Fulbright Visiting Research Chair, will spend six months at University of Washington (UW), writing about

With the support of a Center FLAS Fellowship, and the generosity of the Musqueam people of Vancouver, British Columbia, I was able to spend the year studyinghәńq’әmińәm, the downriver dialect of Halkomelem, a Coast Salish language spoken along the Fraser River and the east side of Vancouver Island. My aim is to develop a deeper

Originally Posted: Winter 2010 C’était un beau samedi d’automne. Le soleil était au rendez-vous et de nombreux partisans des Huskys convergeaient sur l’Université de Washington. Vêtus de pourpre et d’or, les couleurs de l’équipe de l’université, ils étaient venus assister au match de football. Toutefois, dans un autre coin du campus, des professeurs de français

by Charlotte Coté The Book Launch Event on October 28th for Spirits of Our Whaling Ancestors was a great success! Tleko (thank you) to my family from Canada who came to support me and shared our beautiful Tseshaht songs and dances with the audience. I also want to thank the University of Washington Press and

Lucy Jarosz’s research project, “How Local Food Systems Address Hunger” compares how hunger is addressed through community gardening and urban farming in Vancouver, British Columbia, and Seattle, Washington. Through a series of interviews with gardeners, urban farmers, food distribution and food banking directors, it examines the motivations and experiences of the people working to produce

Nadine Fabbi was awarded a Leadership Award from the Education Leadership and Policy Studies program at the University of British Columbia to support her research on political activism occurring in the Arctic with a focus on the role of Canada’s Inuit and Arctic higher education. Arctic Aboriginal peoples are engaged in Arctic foreign policy and

Morna McEachern completed her PhD in social welfare policy in June and has been hired to teach history and policy courses in the Master’s of Social Work program at the University of Washington’s (UW) School of Social Work. Her primary research focuses on comparing Canadian and U.S. sexual health education policies and their relationship to