Japan and outer space expert Professor Saadia Pekkanen interviews Japanese entrepreneur Yuya Nakamura, Founder and CEO of Axelspace, a company that recently launched a small satellite, which will collect and relay data on sea ice

Alumnus Freeman Halle (B.A., International Studies, 2017) is heading to Ottawa and Quebec in September to help build a policy brief on Youth in the World, thanks to winning a

During spring quarter, one of the Jackson School’s Applied Research Program student teams was given a daunting task – help Microsoft think about Brad Smith’s call for a Digital Geneva Convention. In addition to weighing in on current Microsoft strategy, the students found out that they were working on the exact same research task that Microsoft had asked RAND to tackle. The project was the fifth product of a Jackson School Applied Research collaboration with Microsoft’s Global Security Strategy & Diplomacy Team.

Alumnus Hunter Marston (M.A. Southeast Asia Studies and MPA Public Affairs, 2013) argues in “It’s time for the U.S. to pressure Burma on human rights — once again” that Burma’s

The passing of the Arctic Council chairmanship gavel from Canada to the U.S. in 2015 was a highly anticipated event. The last two chairmanship terms were headed by two extraordinary individuals: the

Jackson School Alumnus Benjamin C. Lee (B.A., International Studies and Chinese, 2015) is among 11 UW students and alumni who have been awarded a 2017-2018 U.S. Fulbright Program Scholarship. His Fulbright Research Fellowship

“While Aung San Suu Kyi remains, for many, a powerful symbol of the struggle for democracy, the time has come for stronger international pressure to condemn her moral abstention regarding

Ensuring accountability and transparency in the distribution of refugee aid has always been a herculean task. Mismanagement of funds is rife and more often than not, aid is swallowed up

When most people think about sailing, they dream about cruising on a sleek sailboat in warm, crystal-blue waters with the sun on their faces and not a care in the

“…being able to converse in ‘Taglish,’ the commonly spoken combination of Tagalog and English, has allowed people I’ve spoken with to represent their experience accurately, without being white-washed.” Hannah Bassett,