February 12, 3:30 – 5:00 pm | ��Smith Hall

As part of the History Colloquium, Professor La Tasha Levy will discuss “Black Soldiers and the Racial Debilitation of Slavery and the Civil War.” Levy is a Black Studies scholar who currently serves as an Assistant Professor in the Department of American Ethnic Studies

The History Colloquium aims to encourage greater intellectual exchange within the UW community by discussing works in progress from faculty members and graduate students.

Free |��

February 12, 5:30 – 7:30 pm | Thomson Hall

Join the Department of Asian Languages & Literature for a series of films exploring diversity and inclusion in Japanese society. “Whole” is a short drama created by Writer Usman Kawazoe and Director Bilal Kawazoe depicting Haruki, a biracial student who decides to quit college and travel to Japan, and Makoto, a construction worker raised in the projects of Kansai who is also biracial. Haruki and Makoto grow closer and begin their journey from “Half” to “Whole.”

The film is in Japanese with English subtitles and will be followed by a brief discussion.

Free |

February 12, 7:30 pm | Meany Hall

Dynamic duo Cuong Vu and Cristina Valdés straddle the worlds of contemporary classical music and free improvisation, premiering works for trumpet and piano by Oliver Schneller, Wang Lu, and Skúli Sverrisson, and performing music by Huck Hodge and Eva-Maria Houben.

Tickets |

February 13, 5:00 – 6:20 pm | Architecture Hall

Join the Jackson School of International Studies for a Middle East Lecture Series with Marc Lynch, Professor of Political Science and International Affairs at the George Washington University, on Regional Repercussions of the War.��

This event is part of��War in the Middle East, a series of talks and discussions on the aftermath of October 7, the war in Gaza, and responses worldwide.

Recordings of past lectures are available on the .

Free |

February 13, 6:30 pm | Building Scyborgs. An evening on decolonization, Town Hall Seattle & Livestream

Join scholar, organizer, and co-conspirator K. Wayne Yang as he shares stories about decolonizing endeavors from past, present, future, and speculative somewheres. Yang will discuss monsters, machines, mortals, and how people are the objects of colonization and agents of decolonization.

Free | More info & Registration

February 14 & 15, 11:00 am – 3:00 pm | Husky Union Building Street/Lyceum

February 15, 6:00 – 8:30 pm | Kane Hall

The Simons Laufer Mathematical Sciences Institute is joined by the Departments of Applied Mathematics, Mathematics, and Statistics for the film screening of Journeys of Black Mathematicians: Forging Resilience.

The film, by George Csicsery, traces the cultural evolution of Black scholars, scientists, and educators. Follow the stories of prominent pioneers, and the challenges and accomplishments reflected in today’s working Black mathematicians. Their mathematical descendants are now present day college and K-12 students across the US, learning they belong in mathematics and STEM.

The screening will follow with a Q&A with Director George Csicsery.

Free |

February 15 – 17, 8:00 pm | Meany Hall

A symphony of acrobatics, sound, and light, Humans 2.0 is next level circus by the Australian contemporary circus group Circa. Ten bodies appear in a flash of light. They move in harmony for a fleeting moment and then descend into a sinuous trance. Created by circus visionary Yaron Lifschitz, with pulsing music by composer Ori Lichtik and dramatic lighting by Paul Jackson, Humans 2.0 is intimate, primal, and deeply engaged with the challenge of being human.

Tickets |

February 15, 4:00 – 5:30 pm | Thomson Hall

The UW South Asia Center invites Elora Shehabuddin, professor of Gender & Women’s Studies and Global Studies at the University of California, Berkeley, to present a unique and engaging history of feminism as a story of colonial and postcolonial interactions between Western and Muslim societies.

Stretching from the eighteenth-century Enlightenment era to the War on Terror present, Sisters in the Mirror shows how changes in women’s lives and feminist strategies have consistently reflected wider changes in national and global politics and economics.

Free |

February 15, 7:30 pm | Brechemin Auditorium

Craig Sheppard, Robin McCabe, and Cristina Valdés lead students from the UW piano studios to perform works from the piano repertoire.

Craig Sheppard is Professor of Piano and Head of Keyboard at the UW School of Music. He is also Professor of the Advanced Innovation Center at the China Conservatory in Beijing.

Celebrated pianist Robin McCabe has established herself as one of America’s most communicative and persuasive artists. McCabe’s involvement and musical sensibilities have delighted audiences across the globe.

Pianist Cristina Valdés presents innovative concerts of standard and experimental repertoire, and is known to “play a mean piano.” A fierce advocate for new music, she has premiered countless works, including many written for her.

Free |

February 16, 3:00 pm | Brechemin Auditorium

UW Strings students perform concerto movements for outside judges, competing��for a chance to perform with the ����Ӱ�Ӵ�ý Symphony.

Free |

February 20, 1:00 pm | Husky Union Building South Ballroom

The College of Arts & Sciences welcomes the UW community of faculty, staff, and students to participate in the second annual “Big Read.”

Tune into the conversation with Dr. Joy Buolamwini, founder of the Algorithmic Justice League and author of Unmasking AI: My Mission to Protect What is Human in a World of Machines and��Dr. Emily M. Bender, UW Professor of Linguistics and Director of the Master’s Program in Computational Linguistics.

Free |

February 22, 4:00 pm | Climate Crisis: Our Response as Artivists, Walker Ames Room, Kane Hall

Appearing onstage at the UW’s Meany Center in February, “Small Island Big Song” is an immersive concert experience that celebrates the seafaring cultures of the Pacific and Indian Oceans, and features Indigenous musicians from the frontline of the climate crisis.

The UWAA and Meany Center are excited to gather a UW College of the Environment alumna, a current student (Majoring in geography) and creators of “Small Island Big Song” to talk about issues of climate change, advocacy, art and culture. Our panelists each come to these topics from different vantage points and will share their reflections on how these topics all impact one another.

As the climate crisis quickly rises to the top of world concerns, different sectors — including artists — scramble to figure out ways to respond to its impending pressures. We all have a vital role to play. Join the conversation as we explore ways we can use our voices to push the needle on political, economic, social and cultural questions at the root of this global concern.

UWAA hosted reception to follow.

Free | More info & Registration

Have an event that you would like to see featured in the ArtSci Roundup? Connect with Kathrine Braseth (kbraseth@uw.edu).

It’s once again mini fridge season at the ����Ӱ�Ӵ�ý, as thousands of students move into campus housing and prepare for the new academic year. About 8,500 students, including 78% of this year’s freshman class, are expected to move into UW residence halls and apartments this week. ��

“This is a very exciting week at UW,” said Pamela Schreiber, assistant vice president for Student Life and executive director of UW Housing & Food Services. “The on-campus living experience is an important part of building community for students and supporting their academic success.”��

This week has been carefully choreographed, with a team of more than 500 UW employees spread across campus to direct traffic, share directions and prepare students’ first meals on campus. On Friday, UW President Ana Mari Cauce will greet students outside the dorms near Denny Field at the north end of campus.����

As always, move-in week will end in style with Sunday’s Convocation ceremony. President Cauce and other campus leaders, including the Board of Regents and deans of all 16 UW schools, will officially welcome the new class of Huskies and their families and help set students on the path to academic success. The ceremony will start at 1:30 p.m. in Alaska Airlines Arena at Hec Edmundson Pavilion, and will also be .��

Fall quarter classes begin Wednesday, Sept. 27. ��

For more information on move-in week, contact Alden Woods at acwoods@uw.edu. To learn more about Convocation, contact Alex Bartick at abartick@uw.edu. ��

The ����Ӱ�Ӵ�ý today announced that PepsiCo will become its official beverage partner beginning July 1.

PepsiCo’s relationship with the UW is built on a commitment to enhancing the student experience, innovating around sustainability, supporting the UW’s diversity, equity and inclusion goals, and creating more positive impacts for all.

UW will offer the full suite of PepsiCo products in its three main campuses, hospitals and athletics venues for the next 10 years. The relationship is valued at more than $24.92 million, with an additional $2.4 million in PepsiCo products.

“We’re very pleased to welcome PepsiCo as a partner and sponsor. Their commitment to supporting core UW values — the Husky Experience; diversity, equity and inclusion; and sustainability —��will expand our capacity to provide a world-class education for students and increase access to the UW,” UW President Ana Mari Cauce said.

A committee of representatives from across the University — including all three campuses, UW Medicine and Intercollegiate Athletics — unanimously selected PepsiCo in a competitive bidding process.

“We at PepsiCo are excited and honored for the opportunity to partner with the ����Ӱ�Ӵ�ý as their exclusive beverage provider,” said Shay Hobby, senior vice president of Commercial, PepsiCo Beverages North America – West Division.��“Through this partnership, we are committed to making a positive impact on the Husky student experience and community.�� We are grateful for UW’s collaboration and excited to share this news with our passionate Pepsi teammates who live in that community.”

By becoming a ����Ӱ�Ӵ�ý signature partner, PepsiCo will:

• Support the student experience by funding scholarships that uplift diversity, equity, and inclusion and for students serving in the military at UW Bothell, UW Tacoma and on the Seattle campus
• Boost student exposure to career opportunities, with specialized programming at UW Bothell, UW Tacoma, and on the Seattle campus through Student Life and the Office of Minority Affairs & Diversity. PepsiCo also will provide real-world job experience by hiring student ambassadors to represent its brand at the UW.
• Help fight food insecurity among the UW student population with direct support to the Any Hungry Husky food assistance program
• Limit and reduce beverage packaging and single-use containers, seeking solutions to minimize waste and shift toward clean energy by endowing an on-campus innovation fund
• Provide UW Athletics with Gatorade sports beverages and offer UW coaches access to the Gatorade Sports Science Institute, a team of researchers working to optimize sports nutrition. PepsiCo also will support the Athletics Impact Fund in Intercollegiate Athletics.
• Promote more positive impacts, pledging that two-thirds of PepsiCo’s product line will contain 100 calories or fewer per 12-ounce serving by 2025 all as a part of its pep+ (PepsiCo Positive) transformation initiative, which centers on sustainability and inspires positive change for the planet and people

PepsiCo equipment is scheduled to be installed across the UW campuses this summer. For more information click here or contact uwnews@uw.edu.

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Here’s what other UW leaders said about the new partnership:

“Pepsi’s commitment to invest in diversity, equity, inclusion and belonging at the UW will help the university advance important efforts across the three campuses,” said Rickey Hall, the university’s diversity officer and vice president of the Office of Minority Affairs & Diversity. “Investing in these programs places a college education in reach for more students, from more parts of Washington, and will help with efforts to create more accessible and welcoming campuses.”

“PepsiCo’s commitment to supporting the Husky student experience is terrific! From scholarships to career opportunities, this partnership will benefit UW students for years to come,” said Denzil Suite, UW Vice President for Student Life.

“We are excited to welcome Pepsi to UW,” said Pamela Schreiber, assistant vice president for Student Life and executive director of UW Housing & Food Services. “We look forward to a partnership with shared values and priorities, and ensuring a variety of product options across our campus dining operations.”

“We are excited about bringing PepsiCo and their full range of product offerings to the UW,” said Jen Cohen, director of Athletics. “We know our partnership will be extremely beneficial for our student-athletes, staff and Husky Nation, and the opportunities that are created from our collective collaboration will make an incredible impact both on campus and in the community.”

“We commend PepsiCo’s movement towards healthier drinks and wellness and its commitment to sustainability, equity and diversity for a better future,” said Cynthia Dold, interim president of Hospitals & Clinics, UW Medicine.

“Gatorade is a trusted brand in the sports beverage industry that is backed by the work they do at the Gatorade Sport Science Institute,” said Mike Dillon, associate athletic director for Health & Wellness. “We are thrilled to have access to their extensive product line that spans hydration, fueling and recovery as well as direct access to the research and support from GSSI. Gatorade has a long-standing history in the world of sports and constantly prioritizes the overall student-athlete experience.”

“The announcement of this partnership is perfectly timed with the opening of our Terrace Dining Pavilion later this summer,” said Scott James, vice chancellor for the Division of Enrollment Management & Student Affairs, UW Bothell. “We welcome PepsiCo to the UW Bothell campus and look forward to collaborating on ways to enrich opportunities for our students.”

“We are excited to partner with PepsiCo to punch up the flavor of the student experience on the UW Tacoma campus. Their support for scholarships, internships, sustainability initiatives and events like Convocation will immeasurably strengthen the Husky community,” said Mentha Hynes-Wilson, vice chancellor for Student Affairs, UW Tacoma.

(Editor’s note: Due to an internal miscommunication, the original content of this news release was edited after publication. The full, original text has been restored.)

May 16 – 17, 11:00 AM – 3:00 PM | , HUB Street/Lyceum/Lawn

Free |

May 16, 11:30 AM – 1:00 PM | ��Communications Building

Join the UW Translation Studies Hub for two short talks and conversation:

“Against Translation as Metaphor: Sultanic Languages of Sovereignty in Late 19^th Century Morocco”
Sam Kigar (Islamic Studies, Department of Religion, University of Puget Sound) challenges a scholarly tradition of describing religions as languages that can be translated into one another. He examines the translation of two letters by Sultan Hassan I (r. 1873-1894) about his journeys to the Sūs region of southern Morocco. The Sultan was not translating forms of Islamic sovereignty into “foreign” territorial terms, instead, he was participating in the territorialization of the Sūs.

“Decentering French to re-center Wolof: Translation as a Nationalist Performance in Boubacar Boris Diop’s Work”
Rokiatou Soumaré (French and Francophone Studies, University of Puget Sound) proposes that Senegalese novelist Boubacar Boris Diop positions himself in his work as a nationalist linguistic activist by writing in Wolof instead of French, Senegal’s lingua franca. For Diop, translating these essential pieces initiated an ambitious political project that aligns with his nationalistic views, and his rejection of French hegemony.

Free |

May 17, 7:30 PM | Meany Hall

This project was born from a collaboration between Abigail Jara (choreographer and dancer) and Juan Pampin (sound artist and composer). The work was created during a residency of MUSSE DC at the Department of Digital Arts and Experimental Media (DXARTS) at the UW Seattle campus in April 2022.

The performance is an exploration of the territory based on sound maps. The use of sensors enables the performers to carry out a space-time reconfiguration of the forest based on its sounds, which has the body as its axis, and movement and time as its organizing principle. In turn, the performers are part of an audiovisual ecosystem in which their bodies are captured by infrared cameras – similar to those used by scientists to investigate the presence of animals in the forest.

In each section of the work, the performers explore this interactive audiovisual space based on certain concepts related to the forest, such as the animal, the arborescent, the vegetal, the aviary, and the spectral.

Free |

May 17 – May 21 | ,��Meany Hall

Join the Department of Dance for their first-ever concert in the round. Six premieres by current graduate students, including one film, explore topics from Artificial Intelligence to the concept of Yin and Yang.

$10 Tickets |

May 17, 7:30 – 9:00 PM | ��Kane Hall

The Frontiers of Physics Lecture Series brings renowned scientists to the UW to offer free lectures on exciting advances in physics with the goal of fostering an appreciation of science and technology in our community. This spring the Department of Physics is honored to welcome 2017 Nobel Laureate in Physics, Kip Thorne.

Free |

May 18, 4:00 – 5:30 PM | ��Communications Building

This lecture series and colloquium advance crucial conversations on world language and literature study on the UW Seattle campus through an interdisciplinary, multi-departmental speaker series focused on issues of race, identity, colonialism, and migration within a broad European context. These approaches to national literatures offer effective frameworks for undergraduates, graduate students, and faculty to grasp the intersectional complexity of power configurations in literary and visual cultures.

Free |

May 18, 7:30 PM | Meany Hall

Indian Classical vocalist, educator, and composer, Srivani Jade��presents “Ritu Chakra: Ragas of the Six Seasons of North India” in��the��culminating��recital of her artist residency at the UW School of Music. She��is accompanied by Deepashri Joglekar (Harmonium), Ravi Albright (Tabla), Suchitra Iyer (Vocal Saath), and Tanpura. Her UW students present a short opening act of Ragas and bandish compositions they learned during the quarter.

Srivani Jade identifies deeply with the Khayal and Thumri traditions of North India, and devotional repertoire from the Bhakti movement. Her performances have received critical acclaim in the 2014 Sawai Gandharva Festival and 2016 Earshot Jazz Festival, and she has many albums, film and musical scores to her credit.

$10 – $20 Tickets |

May 18, 7:30 PM | Kane Hall

Christopher Ozubko is a Canadian-American designer, educator, and former Director of the School of Art + Art History + Design at the ����Ӱ�Ӵ�ý. He completed his BFA at the University of Alberta, and his MFA at the renowned Cranbrook Academy of Art, then under the direction of Katherine and Michael McCoy. After his appointment to the Design faculty at the UW in 1981, Ozubko established his own atelier in Seattle, Studio Ozubko, which garnered numerous regional, national, and international design awards.

Ozubko’s poster designs are in the collections of the George Pompidou Museum, Paris; the US Library of Congress; the Museum of Applied Art, Helsinki; Dansk Plakatmuseum, Arhus, Denmark; and IPT Toyama, Japan.

As an educator, Ozubko developed and led the UW summer “Design in Rome” program for more than a decade, which exposed students to photography, history, epigraphy, traditional craft, and industrial technology.

Free |

May 18, 7:30 PM | Husky Union Building

Come to the Husky Union Building and listen to Yevgenia Albats, Distinguished Journalist in Residence, Jordan Center for the Advanced Study of Russia, talk about Putin’s Wars. The speech is followed by a public Q&A.

Yevgenia Albats is a Russian investigative journalist, political scientist, author, and radio host. She has been Political Editor and then Editor-in-Chief and CEO of The New Times, a Moscow-based, Russian language independent political weekly, since 2007. On February 28, 2022, Vladimir Putin blocked its website, just days after Russia invaded Ukraine. Despite that, Albats continues to run the newtimes.ru, and she kept reporting from Russia until she had to leave the country in the last week of August 2022 after she was fined for her coverage of the war with Ukraine and pronounced a foreign agent. She graduated from Moscow State University and holds a Ph.D. in Political Science from Harvard University. Additionally, she was a full-time professor at Moscow’s Higher School of Economics.

Free with Registration |

May 19, 11:00 AM – 5:00 PM | Undergraduate Research Symposium, Kane Hall

The Undergraduate Research Symposium is an opportunity for undergraduates to present what they have learned through their research experiences to a larger audience. It is also a space for students, faculty, and the community to discuss cutting-edge research. This event is held on UW’s campus and is open to all students, faculty, and community members to attend.

The event includes poster, visual arts and design, performing arts, and oral presentations by students from all academic disciplines and all three UW campuses, plus invited student presenters from peer institutions.

Free |

May 19, 5:00 – 6:30 PM | , Livestream

Join together with students – past and present – to celebrate and commemorate the 55th Anniversary of the Black Student Union (BSU).

This panel conversation is an opportunity for our campus community to hear from BSU founding members��James P. Garrett, Larry Gossett, Kathleen Haley, Carl Miller, and Leathia Stallworth-Krasucki, who demanded changes in how the UW served students of color. From their 1968 occupation of the UW administration building (now Gerberding Hall), to the myriad ways they have been leading voices in justice and equity over the years, these visionary leaders have shaped this university and our greater community.

The panel will be moderated by UW alum and��former Black Student Union leader��Dr. Marc Arsell Robinson, Assistant Professor of History from California State University, San Bernardino.

Registration for in-person attendance is��at capacity��and is only open for the livestream.

Free |

Have an event that you would like to see featured in the ArtSci Roundup? Connect with Lauren Zondag (zondagld@uw.edu).

The ����Ӱ�Ӵ�ý’s campus again is bustling as students began moving into residence halls on Tuesday and will participate in annual fall activities for incoming undergraduates. About 10,000 students are expected to move into campus housing this week.

“There’s definitely a lot of energy and everyone is excited to be back on campus,” said Andrew Line, a student with the UW Residential Community Student Association.

Provost Mark Richards greeted students near north campus residence halls Tuesday while UW President Ana Mari Cauce welcomed students on Wednesday at the dorms near Denny Field. Move-in days are an all-hands-on-deck effort for UW Housing & Food Services, and dozens of staff and student leaders helped students move into their new homes over the course of the week.

On Sunday, President Cauce and other campus leaders will officially welcome the new class with Convocation, this year held in-person at Alaska Airlines Arena at Hec Edmundson Pavilion for the first time since 2019. Immediately following Convocation, students will form a giant ‘W’ on Husky Field.

Fall quarter classes begin on Wednesday, Sept. 28. See a .

The ����Ӱ�Ӵ�ý’s Seattle campus saved more than 5 tons of food from being thrown away in 2020, preventing unnecessary waste and helping feed people in the community who struggle with food security.

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency recognized the achievement by selecting the UW for a in the 2021 Food Recovery Challenge. The award is given to select institutions and businesses that voluntarily set data-driven goals, implement targeted strategies to reduce wasted food in their operations, and then report the results to the EPA. The UW is recognized as a national leader for its deep commitment to sustainability on its campuses and in the community. UW’s Seattle campus recovered 10,720 pounds of food in 2020 that would have otherwise been wasted, a 13% increase over 2019 and a 26% increase from 2018.

The success comes from the UW’s food recovery efforts across dining facilities, the the UW Food Pantry, and its partnership with . works with local food banks, including the one on campus, to divert excess food purchased or overproduced at dining facilities.

The programs also support the UW’s waste reduction goal under the . Working to minimize food waste has been a major part of the efforts toward of reducing the amount of waste generated 10 percent by 2025.

It’s been about 18 months since the ����Ӱ�Ӵ�ý led the nation in pivoting to largely online learning and working as the COVID-19 pandemic took hold.

While campus operations never halted completely, many students and UW staff have been based elsewhere, studying and working remotely.

Now, with autumn quarter set to begin at the end of this month and many UW staff beginning their return to on-campus work on Sept. 13, officials are making final preparations.

“We can’t wait for everybody to come back,” said Lou Cariello, UW’s vice president of facilities. “People are going to come back to a campus, and buildings on this campus, that have never been more clean, never been more beautiful and shiny.”

Throughout the pandemic, heating, ventilation and cooling engineers have worked to ensure that air is properly flowing through buildings and classrooms. Filters are being changed more frequently, airflow machines are running longer and air purifiers have been added to many locations.

“Our facilities team has been on campus every day, through the entire pandemic,” Cariello said. “We really haven’t skipped a beat.”

Window washers, plumbers, electricians, custodians, power plant operators, gardeners and more have been working to maintain the buildings and the 634-acre grounds. Facilities teams worked with experts across the university to determine the best way to adapt and keep campus safe. They deep-cleaned floors and carpets, dusted even in hard-to-reach places, power-washed, and scoured restrooms.

“We’re making sure that the systems are working effectively,” Cariello said. “We listen to what the guidance is on what will keep people safe. And we do the cleaning and disinfecting. We make sure that our ventilation systems are operating as best as they possibly can be.”

Also receiving a lot of attention: doorknobs, railings, elevator push buttons – places that people come into contact with the most.

“Those high-touch-point surfaces get cleaned on a more frequent basis than they did pre-pandemic,” he said. “That’s as a result of mitigating our safety and health risks for the people on campus.”

Campus housing is expected to return to full capacity this year, said Pam Schreiber, assistant vice president for Student Life and the executive director of Housing & Food Services.

“For many of our students it’s going to feel like a brand-new experience,” she said. “We cannot wait for our students to return. We are looking forward to it. We know the power of the residential experience and how much it adds to the student’s time at the UW.”

About 10,000 students are expected to move into the residence halls this year. This includes first-year students and returning second- and even third-year students whose on-campus living experience was interrupted by the pandemic. Demand for on-campus housing was so great that Haggett Hall, which closed in 2019, has been reopened. And isolation rooms are reserved throughout the residence halls to provide a safe space, should a student need to quarantine.

Teams are planning to make life safe and simple for students elsewhere on campus. Many dining halls will have grab-and-go prepared meals, and officials are expanding the use of , an online, mobile food-ordering system.

Most important, housing and food service crews recognize that they’re providing much more than a service, Schreiber said; they’re creating a welcoming space where students can feel at home.

“We recognize that they’ll need a lot of support, need a lot of help, directions, they’ll have a lot of questions. We need to have a lot of patience to support them and make sure they really get everything out of the experience of being on campus that they can,” she said. “We’re way more than just buildings and serving food, we’re really here to create this community for students and to help them connect with the UW, and have this really tremendous collegiate experience.”

Cariello said he’s eager to see the campus bustling once again.

“We’re going to get back to it, and it’s going to be terrific,” he said.

Still, he points out that everyone has a role to play in keeping the UW safe by heeding the calls of public health officials, and following vaccination and masking requirements.

“The most important thing we can do to mitigate risks of the virus spreading is to get vaccinated, to mask up indoors and to always practice good hygiene,” Cariello said. “Just wash your hands a lot.”

Around 4,000 students are moving into the residence halls at the ����Ӱ�Ӵ�ý this week. This number is less than half the UW’s normal residence hall capacity.

Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, a number of special precautions are being taken to ensure minimal contact and proper physical distancing during the move-in process. These include��requiring facemasks in all indoor spaces, per campus policy, and outside whenever appropriate physical distance cannot be ensured, plus limiting the number of vehicles and family members present during move-in. Volunteers and staff helping with move-in also are following safety guidelines with proper PPE and distancing.

“Because of the situation with COVID, we have made a lot of changes to the move-in process this year,” said��Megan Baffaro, student move-in volunteer coordinator with UW Housing & Food Services. “I think we focused a lot on making sure it’s a welcoming experience while also making sure that it’s safe for both volunteers and residents.”

Fall quarter begins Sept. 30, and about 90% of classes will be held remotely.

To welcome students — whether they will be living on UW campuses, in the community or at home with their families — the university sent each of them two reusable UW facemasks, along with the��Husky PACK Pledge. Developed with undergraduate and graduate student leaders on all three campuses, the pledge promotes a culture of safety by outlining the responsibilities that students, instructors and staff have to each other.

For students living in campus residence halls,��a number of�� are in place,��including setting aside spaces for residents who test positive to be supported as they isolate.

“When students made the decision that they did want to live in residences, we were very excited, and we also understood that to mean they have trust in us, and this is where they want to be,”�� said��Pam Schreiber, executive director of UW Housing & Food Services.

Additionally, many students are returning to housing in nearby neighborhoods, even as they take all their courses remotely. For those students, the university has offered a��sample roommates agreement. Additionally, Student Life continues to work closely with the Greek community to promote health and safety.

����Ӱ�Ӵ�ý students living in residence halls began moving in on Tuesday, and about 4,000 students total will move in this week. This number is less than half the UW’s normal residence hall capacity. Move-in usually happens over two days, but will take place over a four-day period this year to ensure minimal contact and proper physical distancing.

Fall quarter begins Sept. 30, and about 90% of classes will be held remotely.

Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, a number of special precautions are being taken to ensure minimal contact and proper physical distancing during the move-in process. Among these:

Facemasks are required in all indoor space, per campus policy, and outside whenever appropriate physical distance cannot be ensured.

A limit of two people can arrive with students to help with moving in. No pets are allowed during move-in.

Only one vehicle can be used per student to move in.

Carts will be available for students and their families to move belongings from the check-in location to their rooms. Carts will be sanitized between each use using EPA-registered disinfectants. Hand sanitizer will be available for use near elevators.

All staff and volunteers assisting during move-in will be required to wear surgical masks. There will be student volunteers assisting with the loading and unloading of residents’ belongings.

In each community, one elevator will be designated to move carts to floors and one elevator will be designated for resident and guest use. No more than two people (or three people from the same household) will be permitted in an elevator at a time.

Soundbites:
Ainsley Jordan, first-year student from Everett
Rachel Oommen, first-year student from Sammamish
Megan Baffaro, student move-in volunteer coordinator
Pam Schreiber, executive director of UW Housing & Food Services

B-roll:
Students and families arrive, pick up housing assignment information
Unloading cars, moving belongings into residence halls
Unpacking in individual rooms
Students visiting UW dining facilities
An example of the isolation rooms available for students, if needed

At the ����Ӱ�Ӵ�ý’s food pantry, the shelves are stocked with cans, jars, boxes and bags, but not for customers to browse. The storefront on the street level of Poplar Hall is open, but only for shoppers to grab and go.

And business? Steady.

This is the new UW Pantry: Still providing free food to anyone with a Husky Card, but for the all-remote spring quarter, accepting only . With fewer students currently living in the University District and on campus, the number of orders is half of normal — about 150 a week — but has stayed consistent. Nearly one-fourth of recent customers are new.

“The people who were financially struggling before all of this have in no way stabilized their situation,” explained Sean Ferris, manager of student success for the UW Division of Student Life. A recent survey of pantry users found that many have lost jobs or had their hours cut, or now live with a family member who is out of work and rely on the pantry to get by.

“We work with students, an audience that is often overlooked in policy decisions such as unemployment benefits or basic-needs food assistance. And the expectation is that somehow they are self-sufficient, which is a challenging expectation,” Ferris said. “It doesn’t take much to move from food secure to food insecure, and that’s what’s happened.”

Under circumstances that have upended students’ academic and personal lives, changes to the pantry are just one of the ways the university community – students, staff, donors and alumni – is rethinking traditional programs and services to try to meet the needs that arise.

A primary need is financial: Applications are up for emergency aid grants, which provide funds for tuition, supplies, technology lost wages,��even basic household needs such as food security.��Since March 6, more than 500 grants have been requested across all three campuses, compared to 366 grants requested during the entire 2018-2019 academic year. So far, the number of grant applications from UW Bothell students was two-thirds the campus’ total for all of 2019.

“The fund helps students in every way possible,” said Tomitha Blake, assistant vice provost for advancement, academic and student affairs. “We’re recognizing that distance learning is impactful for every student, and even more so for students who have overcome significant hurdles to be at the UW. Students are in need, and it’s unprecedented for them and their families.”

Students and identify which campus they attend. A financial aid counselor contacts the student, and staff then route the request to the appropriate office. Response times have slowed slightly due to the volume of requests, but staff try to contact students within four to five days.

Sometimes other groups on campus, such as a student’s academic home department, might be asked to contribute. During the pandemic, however, many groups have simply redirected their resources to the fund. UW Tacoma’s class of 2020 decided to dedicate its class gift to the emergency assistance for Tacoma students.

A broader campaign has launched to support all students and add to UW resources and federal grants.��The UW also will be��receiving $19.8 million in student financial aid from the U.S. Education Department as part of the federal CARES Act to be distributed to students who have the most significant need.

Meanwhile, some of the university’s strategic partners, AT&T, BECU and Coca-Cola, are supporting the Seattle and Tacoma food pantries by donating money, supplies and resources. (Starbucks, another of the university’s strategic partners, continues to donate excess food from its campus locations to the food pantry.) AT&T contributed $50,000 toward needs at both pantries, and at UW Tacoma will also support delivery efforts for customers who can’t make the trip to campus.

The $25,000 donated to the Seattle campus pantry can pay for months’ worth of inventory, Ferris said. Food drives, a traditional source of donations, aren’t feasible during the pandemic, so the pantry will need to buy more to stock up, especially on staples or more expensive items such as sauces, peanut butter, rice and pasta to meet the need during spring and summer.

Shortly after the switch to remote instruction at the end of winter quarter, UW Housing and Food Services donated to the pantry 500 pounds of fresh food, such as produce, eggs and dairy items, that wouldn’t be able to be served in campus dining facilities. The pantry distributed nearly all of it to customers, and HFS has set aside cooler space for its ongoing donations to the pantry, which in turn displays a “fresh sheet,” restaurant-style, for customers to order from at pick-up. UW Farm Manager Perry Acworth said the farm has begun sending produce to the pantry, as well.

The switch to an online-ordering system at the pantry – also implemented at — is practical for both staffing and shopping during the COVID-19 pandemic. At UW Bothell, the Husky Pantry at Husky Village remains open, but visits are down, and students are provided with information about .

At the Seattle campus pantry, health and safety is a priority for customers and workers alike, Ferris said. There is a designated area for a line outside the pantry, with markings for where customers should stand at a safe distance apart, and a pantry worker greets each customer outside to take their name and identification number. Inside, workers maintain social distancing, sanitize frequently and wear gloves. Face masks are encouraged.

Barriers prevent customer access to the pantry’s store shelves; when a customer steps inside, a worker brings their order, in a basket, to a table by the front door, and the customer bags their own food. The typical visit inside is designed to last fewer than two minutes.

The online shift definitely altered operations, UW Pantry coordinator Alexandra Rochester said, but new volunteers stepped up to help, and staff remain flexible and strategic.

“It has always been a conflicting feeling to serve so many people because it confronts you with how many people are food insecure, and with each new visitor opting to use our resource, you see the effects of what’s happening to the world,” said Rochester, a graduate student in the Department of Communication. “But it’s also a good feeling because they’re utilizing a service to help themselves, so it’s satisfying to be able to provide that.”