This year’s graduate student symposium celebrated and reflected upon the cultural, political and ecological significance of transboundary dynamics as seen in and around the Salish Sea, a body of water that includes both Canadian and U.S. waters. The symposium attracted students from across the UW in all stages of research to discuss their work and

Kristen Olson just graduated with an undergraduate degree in International Studies. She was part of the Winter Quarter Task Force on Arctic Sovereignty and wrote her chapter on Russia’s involvement in the Arctic. Kristen just left Seattle to serve with Teach for America. The Twelfth Annual UW Undergraduate Student Symposium is an opportunity for undergraduates

by Stan de Mello, Professor and Morna McEarchern Above: Students in SOC WF 312/405 spent a day in Vancouver visiting social service agencies and gaining a greater understanding of Canada-US differences in social welfare policy. At the end of the day the students relaxed at the Katmandu Café in Vancouver’s East Side where the owner

This quarter, research pertaining to my FLAS fellowship has been two-fold. I have been studying the Dane-zaa language, a First Nations language spoken in northern British Columbia and Alberta, through the use of stories and conversations that I have helped collect over the past four years. Additionally, I am exploring the importance of geography in

It’s not news that the world wide web has become the preferred information portal for students and faculty doing research. With the web now being the biggest service point for many organizations, libraries and other government agencies around the world have ramped up digitization projects. Two recently completed digitization projects that will be of interest