Originally from Toronto, Canada, I completed my undergraduate degree at Occidental College in Los Angeles, CA. My past experience was focused on projects in marine ecology and conservation as I worked in Southern California Fisheries management and kelp forest/ intertidal restoration. Currently, I am about to finish a Master’s degree at the UW School of

Fulbright Canada and the University of Washington announced the renewal of their partnership on May 19, 2023. This marks the third signing of the five-year memorandum of understanding (MOU) between the two organizations. Since 2013, the University of Washington has hosted a Fulbright Canada Visiting Research Chair in Arctic Studies. The partnership promotes research on

The International Indigenous Paths project kicked off spring quarter with a whirlwind trip to the University of British Columbia (UBC). 11 students from the Native UW (NUW) Scholars program, together with Todd Clark (Program Manager, Center for American Indian and Indigenous Studies) and Marion Ferguson (Exchange Programs Manager, Canadian Studies Center), traveled to UBC to

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