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Socrates and Basketball | American Sign Language Introduced | The Farm Project is Buzzing | A Nod to Western Civilization | Exploring Tolkien | Design Meets the Inner City | Milestones: Faculty Promotions and Retirements

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Searching for Clues in the Kuril Islands
A team of UW faculty and students, along with Russian and Japanese colleagues, are piecing together a history of the isolated Kuril Islands by studying its archaeological, geological, and biological record.

Journalism Goes Global
Journalism students spent the summer interning at English-language newspapers abroad--in Sierra Leone, Indonesia, and China--through an unusual scholarship in the UW Department of Communication.

Mixing Art and Nature at Willapa Bay
The Willapa National Wildlife Refuge includes artworks created by UW students enrolled in a UW public art course.

Drake Witham: Finding the Funny
Drake Witham ('96) has taken his stand-up act to Seattle's Bumbershoot Festival, Comedy Central's Live at Gotham, and U.S. military bases in Iraq.

A&S Research
David Domke: The Escalating Role of Religion in Politics
Andrew Connolly and Simon Krughoff: Exploring the Sky on the Web

Awards, Honors, and Professorships
Sue-Ellen Jacobs Receives Mellon Emeritus Fellowship | Stephen Porter Honored by Chinese Academy of Sciences | Other Awards, Honors, and Professorships

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