August 17, 2020
The University of Washington’s Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies has been awarded a $200,000 grant from Carnegie Corporation of New York. This grant will support bridging the gap
March 31, 2020
By Nadine Fabbi, Managing Director, Canadian Studies Center, and Michelle Koutnik, Research Associate Professor and glaciologist, Earth and Space Sciences, University of Washington This year’s Arctic Task Force was on sea ice and
March 11, 2020
By Monique Thormann Through the courses we offer under our Donald C. Hellmann Task Force Program, we build bridges across academia and the policy world, between the interests and priorities
March 15, 2019
“Today we’re facing a crisis and an opportunity of a magnitude unknown in recent human history,” said University of Washington Provost Mark Richards in his opening remarks as moderator for a
January 31, 2019
Fourteen undergraduate students, led by Dr. Michelle Koutnik and graduate student John Christian from the Department of Earth and Space Sciences (ESS), as well as co-instructor Dr. Hans Christian Steen-Larsen
April 11, 2018
Current Canada Fulbright Visiting Chair in Arctic Studies Mark Mallory is featured in an article in Canada’s The Chronicle Herald titled “Study warns seabirds not adapting to shifting climate“. Malloy and a
January 16, 2018
Popular Science article “Seagulls are eating all of our garbage” reports a paper co-authored by Mark Mallory, 2017-2018 UW Canada Fulbright Chair in Arctic Studies. The paper, published originally in the Archives
December 21, 2017
Scott Montgomery, Jackson School Lecturer, writes about why after decades of bitter struggle, the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge seems on the verge of being opened to the oil industry with the
October 19, 2017
As I fly over the southern tip of Greenland en route to the Arctic Energy Summit (September 18–20, 2017 in Helsinki, Finland), I can’t help but reflect on the unique
October 19, 2017
Resilience, resistance, and strength. The history of the Sámi from medieval times to the present is one of not only colonization but also Indigenous survival and resistance, which is sometimes