By Mary Kelleher, Contributing Writer The election of Donald Trump has prompted a variety of reactions throughout both the nation and the globe as a whole. For this reason, UW students, professors, alumni, and community members packed into Kane Hall to discuss the reactions to the new presidency and potential changes to expect in the

The 2016 UW Study Abroad Fair on November 8th saw a vibrant crowd as over 2000 students came to explore the diverse learning and funding opportunities offered at through UW to study overseas. A total of 109 exhibitors were presented at the fair, allowing students to interact with alumni of study abroad programs, UW advisers, and representatives

  On November seventeenth at the Pagoda Union Building (room 9208)  in Shoreline Community College, Robin Twyman British Consul for Business and Government Affairs at the Seattle office, and Philip Shekleton Lecturer at the Foster School of Business at the University of Washington will be holding a lively discussion on the historic UK vote of

Jackson School Alumnus Matt Bannick (B.A., International Studies and Economics, 1987) was featured on Nov. 4 in The New York Times article “Philanthropy in Silicon Valley: Big Bets on Big Ideas.” Bannick is the managing partner of the Omidyar Network, a philanthropic investment firm focused on investments in both for-profit businesses and nonprofit organizations that are drivers for positive social

                    Leading litigators, human rights attorneys and activists were brought into conversation  at a one day conference convened by University of Washington School of Law, UW Center for Human Rights, and cosponsored by The Jackson School for International Studies Center for Global Studies and other sponsors. Named “Human Rights Abuses: Expose the

By: MONIQUE THORMANN “I think you have to go back 70 years ago to find a time when we have been so challenged around the world. It’s a complex time,” said former Ambassador and Harvard Kennedy School Professor Nicholas Burns speaking on “Memo to the Next President: Challenges for the U.S. in a Complex World” for

The Center for Global Studies helped support FIUTS over the summer as they ran a series of events to connect elementary school children in Seattle with University of Washington students from around the world so that they can learn about new countries, cultures, and peoples.       From April to May, FIUTS ran an afterschool speaker series,

Undergraduate Henry Milander was a recipient of the CGS Summer Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS) Fellowship in both 2015 and 2016 to develop his skills in Arabic. He spent the summer of 2015 studying Arabic at the Qasid Institute in Amman, Jordan, and the summer of 2016 studying Arabic at the Arabic Language Institute in Fez (ALIF),

Jackson School Associate Professor Sunila Kale recently spoke with Rice anthropologists Dominic Boyer and Cymene Howe about energy politics in India. Kale shares insight into India’s power system as she discusses her book, Electrifying India (Stanford, 2014). “Sunila’s new collaborative research focuses on how India is coping with a growing abundance of expensive green electricity, innovations

Arctic and International Relations Institute In April 2016, the Center for Global Studies co-hosted the  inaugural Arctic and International Relations Institute as part of the Arctic and International Relations Initiative. The event was hosted alongside the International Relations Initiative and held in collaboration with Trent University, Ontario and the World Policy Institute, New York. The Institute