In mid-April 2023, a team met in Fairbanks, Alaska as part of the research project, “Connectedness for Arctic Indigenous Child, Family and Community Wellbeing: Curriculum Development for Nome Eskimo Community,” a Strategic Research Fund award from UW’s Information School. PIs included: Patricia Johnson, former JSIS Banting Fellow (2020-22) and Assistant Professor, University of Calgary, Edmonton; Tram

This quarter over 100 UW undergraduates will study our relationship to the world’s oceans including wind energy in the Salish Sea and Inuit concepts of management. The School of Marine and Environmental Affairs (SMEA), Program on the Environment, and the Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies (JSIS) are offering the course Society and the Oceans 103 this

K-12 educator and Ph.D. student Paulette Thompson (Multicultural Education) presented on teaching Black Canadian histories at the Washington State Council for the Social Studies Conference in March 2023. African/Black Canadian educators and artists have been embracing “Sankofa”, an Akan concept loosely translated as “go back and get it”. In this spirit, Paulette Thompson began her

In September, the “International Indigenous Paths: Building Community Across the Canada-U.S. Border” project kicked off in partnership with the 2022-23 Native UW Scholars cohort. Funded by World Learning and the U.S. Department of State, this project aims increase Indigenous student participation in study abroad programs by developing student confidence in the study abroad application process,

The Western Washington University Children’s Literature Conference is back in person after a two year pandemic hiatus, and with a new addition: the Inaugural Canadian Children’s Literature honoree, Sydney Smith. Thanks to a Title VI grant from the U.S. Department of Education, the conference will bring a notable Canadian Children’s author or illustrator as one of four presenters

Samantha Farquhar was awarded a U.S. Department of Education’s Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad to research fisheries and food insecurity in Nunavik, Canada. Samantha Farquhar was awarded two Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS) fellowships to study French by the Canadian Studies Center for the Summer of 2018 and the 2018-19 academic year. She graduated

Earlier this month the Title VI Centers in the Jackson School hosted a reception to celebrate the current FLAS fellows including a presentation partially delivered in Nuu-chah-nulth. The 1st Annual Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS) Reception was held on January 6th at the University of Washington to celebrate the Summer 2022 and 2022-23 academic

Elena Campbell, Department of History and Jason Young, Information School will serve as the University’s Council Representatives for University of the Arctic. The University of Washington has been an institutional member of University of the Arctic since 2008. Since that time Center managing director Nadine Fabbi has largely served in the role of UW Council

During autumn quarter 2022, Hedwige Meyer, teaching professor of French, brought Michel Jean, author of the award-winning novel, Kukum, to her FRENCH 301: Language in the Francophone World course via Zoom. The students read Kukum prior to the visit by the author. The 90-minute meeting allowed the students to deepen their understanding of the book and

Co-Designing Civic Education for the Circumpolar North is a NSF project headed up by PIs from the Information School, College of the Environment and Canadian Studies. In October 2022, the collaborators of the project met in Finland to visit University of the Arctic, Inari and the Sámi Education Institute. They hosted an in-person workshop in