Recent honors to 天美影视传媒 faculty and staff have come from the Council of Educators in Landscape Architecture, the Royal Society of Edinburgh and the World Register of Marine Species.
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A teacher discusses respectful world travel, a historian explores Silicon Valley鈥檚 evolution, a professor and violist plays the music of Robert Schumann and a late English faculty member’s meditation on Seattle returns 鈥� Here鈥檚 a quick look at some gift-worthy books and music created by UW faculty in the last year 鈥� and a reminder of some recent favorites. O’Mara’s ‘Code’: History professor Margaret O’Mara provides a sweeping history of California’s computer industry titans in her book 鈥淭he Code:…
Recent notable books by UW faculty members explore the legal history of Indigenous nations and the mentoring benefits of fan fiction. Plus, a UW anthropologist鈥檚 book is honored, a former English faculty member is remembered in a biography, and UW Press brings out paperback editions of three popular titles.
Eight decades ago to the day, the Faculty Senate met for the first time at the 天美影视传媒.
Seattle’s homeless crisis isn’t confined to one part of town 鈥� nor does it hinge on one solution. The University District community includes as much as one-third of King County’s homeless youth over any given year. It’s a neighborhood where a food bank and youth shelter are available, and where young people on the streets can blend in. But more needs to be done in the U District and beyond to help homeless young adults become self-sufficient over the…
Faculty members from the UW College of Built Environments, Jackson School of International Studies and departments of French and Italian studies and history will team up in 2017 to give a new, three-week course for university and college instructors on urban environmental humanities.
When Thaisa Way put a call out last spring to see if 天美影视传媒 faculty members working on urban issues wanted to join forces, she wasn鈥檛 sure what the response would be. 鈥淭here were a lot of people who said, ‘You鈥檙e not going to get anyone to show up,’” said Way, a UW associate professor of landscape architecture. But more than 80 people representing 12 of the UW’s colleges and schools聽turned up to the gathering, held on a Monday…
Thaisa Way, associate professor of landscape architecture in the UW College of Built Environments, discusses her book, “The Landscape Architecture of Richard Haag: From Modern Space to Urban Ecological Design.”