Arts
The Arts and Creativity Initiative aims to bring together students, artists, scholars and audiences in state-of-the-art facilities to catalyze creative discovery.
Humanities
At the intersection of technology and scholarship, the Digital Humanities initiative increases the accessibility of knowledge and builds community.
Natural Sciences
Researchers at the DIRAC Institute are using data intensive, computationally-driven science to explore fundamental questions about the origins and evolution of our universe
Social Sciences
The Center for Communication, Difference and Equity seeks to change the structures of power around us through research, classes, networking and mentorship
Estimating the global impact of COVID
To estimate the number of excess deaths due to the COVID pandemic, the World Health Organization brought together an international research team led by Jon Wakefield, UW professor of statistics and biostatistics. The team’s estimate of nearly 15 million excess deaths by the end of 2021 was almost triple the number of COVID deaths reported by countries individually.
Understanding a protest through theater
Nikki Yeboah, assistant professor of drama, wrote the play “11th and Pine” to capture the complexities of Seattle’s 2020 Capitol Hill Occupied Protest (CHOP). Yeboah and a research team of UW graduate and undergraduate students reviewed media coverage of the protests and conducted in-depth interviews with dozens of CHOP participants in preparation for writing the play.
Exposing human rights violations
Ongoing research by faculty and students at the UW Center for the Human Rights (UWCHR) has confirmed disturbing human rights violations at the Northwest Detention Center, a privately run facility operated on behalf of US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). UWCHR, housed in the Jackson School of International Studies, has published a series of reports outlining its findings.