April 24, 2019
Job and Gertrud Tamaki Professorship Saadia Pekkanen is the lead guest editor for a group of essays addressing the new space race issues published online this month in the American Journal of International
February 1, 2019
Challenges and Possibilities of Creating Inclusive Societies in Japan and the U.S. February 21 at 7 PM in Kane Hall 225 Free and open to the public. Register HERE. Panelists
October 11, 2018
Professor Saadia Pekkanen, an outer space expert, is quoted on the pressing issue of space debris in an article as part of the “Axios AM Deep Dive” that lists 10
October 1, 2018
Professor Saadia Pekkanen is quoted in the article “Trump’s Space Force aims to create ‘American Dominance in Space’ by 2020,” analyzing that while Trump’s proposed Space Force may become a new branch
August 16, 2018
Jackson School Professor Saadia Pekkanen, a space policy expert, has weighed in on the “space force” in a Popular Science article “Trump’s Space Force aims to create ‘American dominance in space’
August 3, 2018
Jackson School Professor Saadia Pekkanen is interviewed for the cover story “The US-Japan Space Alliance — the Most Critical Bilateral Relationship for Peace & Prosperity” of Japan Spotlight, a Japan Economic Forum
June 21, 2018
The Jackson School of International Studies and the Department of History honored two faculty members, Hwasook Nam and Kyoko Tokuno, who retire from the University of Washington at the end of this
May 14, 2018
Professor Saadia Pekkanen, an expert in outer space governance, security and policy, comments on the venture of a new Seattle-based startup EarthNow, that plans to build a network of several hundred camera
May 8, 2018
Mary Hammond Bernson, director of the Jackson School’s East Asia Resource Center for over 20 years and former president of the Japan-America Society in Washington state, has been awarded an Order
April 2, 2018
Jackson School Professor Saadia Pekkanen, an expert in outer space and international relations, explains the cultural shift in thinking about outer space, where countries are openly moving from merely space situational