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

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

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

Canadian Studies Center managing director Nadine Fabbi and the Jackson School’s 2020-22 Banting Fellow, Patricia Johnston, co-edited a special edition the American Review of Canadian Studies. The special edition of the American Review of Canadian Studies on “Social Services, Supports, and Well-Being in Arctic Canada and Beyond” was published in September of 2021. The publication, groundbreaking in focusing on Arctic wellness as

Kayla Stevenson is a graduate student at the UW studying at the School of Marine and Environment Affairs and the Jackson School for International Studies. She received her Bachelor’s in Politics and Government and Environmental Policy and Decision Making from the University of Puget Sound. Kayla is currently serving as a Research Assistant for the Navigating the New

In March 2022, fourteen members of the collaborating team, the three PI’s and a research assistant for a Navigating the New Arctic grant met on zoom to begin discussions on the project, “Co-Designing Civic Education for the Circumpolar North.”  In the workshop three questions were discussed concerning civic education: how do we define Arctic civic

The Center is currently offering a public lecture series “Health Equity, Diversity, Inclusion in Arctic Indigenous Communities in Canada and the U.S.” Thanks to funding from a UW Global Innovations Grant from the Office of Global Affairs, the Center is providing a six-part lecture series on wellness in Arctic Indigenous communities in Canada and Alaska.

The International Policy Institute at the Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies acquired over 200 blog postings from Arctic in Context that were formerly housed with the World Policy Institute. Since 2015, the Center has been provided two sub-awards from the Jackson School’s Carnegie Corporation of New York grants totaling over $200,000 to build an Arctic

Jason Young is PI on a grant from the iSchool for the project “Co-Designing Open Educational Resources: Indigenous Wellbeing in the Arctic.”  The primary objective of the grant project is to build the capacity of an interdisciplinary team to develop and carry out research related to Indigenous mental health services in the Arctic. The research

In February of this year, the Center sponsored a panel discussion with three founding visionaries of the Arctic Council, moderated by Tony Penikett, former premier of the Yukon Territory and UW’s 2013-14 Fulbright Canada Chair in Arctic Studies. In the decade leading up to the official launch of the Arctic Council countless meetings occurred among