This spring, Center director Nadine Fabbi launched two new undergraduate Arctic courses — ARCTIC 210: Inuit, the Arctic, and Global Change; and ARCTIC 410: Self-determination in Canada and Beyond: Inuit Rising. These classes, which count towards the Arctic Studies Minor, introduce students to the history of governance in the region, the role of Inuit leaders

Ava Moore (Global and Regional Studies, 2024) has spent this spring as an intern at the Center for Maritime Strategy (CMS) in Washington, D.C. During her time at UW, she participated in the 2024 Transnational Task Force on the Arctic and contributed to a student-led policy report. The Task Force’s expert evaluator, Whit Fraser, suggested

UW students may now declare the Jackson School’s newly revised Arctic Studies minor focused on Arctic peoples and environments with over 20 electives to choose from. The second minor in Arctic Studies in the United States was founded at the University of Washington in 2014. Since that time dozens of students have benefited from courses

UW students can now study at many of the institutions that are members of University of the Arctic via a partnership developed by UW Study Abroad and Canadian Studies. North2north is the mobility program of the University of the Arctic (UArctic), a network of universities, colleges, research institutes and other organizations focusing on education and

The Government of Canada is supporting the winter quarter 2024 Task Force on the Arctic with a $25,000 grant from the Global Arctic Leadership Initiative.  Task Force is a unique undergraduate capstone that offers Jackson School students practical experience making policy recommendations. Each Task Force report is produced by teams of student researchers and evaluated

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

The Center wishes to welcome Spencer Thompson, a major in biology, to the interdisciplinary minor in Arctic Studies. He introduces himself below: I am a marine biology major, and the many fascinating animals I have learned about from the Arctic inspired me to pursue a minor in the subject! I have a passion for helping

During her studies at University of St. John’s, Natasha Haycock-Chavez (2016) worked with former UW Fulbright Canada Arctic Chair Joel Heath in Sanikiluaq, Nunavut.  — After graduating from UW in the spring of 2016 with a BA in Economics and minor in Arctic Studies, I kept in contact with Joel Heath, who at the time

Quinn Wyatt’s paper, “Increasing the Cultural Competence of Inuit Education” was one of five class papers selected for publication. As part of the Arctic Initiative in the Canadian Studies Center, senior research scientist Jason Young oversees the scholarship-to-policy initiative for the Arctic Studies minor. Quinn’s paper was one of just five selected from the fall

In the 2020-21 academic year Marika Vihko enrolled in an Arctic minor course quarterly while working towards an MA in Computer Science in Finland. When UW courses went online last spring, it provided the Center with the opportunity to tap into its membership with University of the Arctic (UArctic) opening up UW courses to UArctic