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The College of Arts & Sciences is home to many distinguished researchers, faculty, and students. Their work and contributions have been featured in media outside of the UW and across the country. Take a look at some ArtSci features from this past Autumn Quarter. With everything from AI to Orca whales, ArtSci people and research in the media has something for everyone.
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Exciting. Confusing. Inspiring. Intimidating. Being a first-generation college student can bring many challenges and emotions. If you are a first-gen student, know that you are in good company. Here, ten UW Arts & Sciences students/alumni who've been in your shoes offer their thoughts on surviving — and thriving — as a first-generation student at the UW.
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Assessing the size of the homeless population is full of challenges and has often led to undercounts, but a team of researchers at the University of Washington has developed a system that they say fills in those gaps. Zack Almquist, a UW associate professor of sociology, and Amy Hagopian, professor emeritus of health systems and population health, are interviewed.… Read more
Man-Lin Chen earned her B.A. in Economics from National Taiwan University. During her undergraduate studies, she spent a year as an exchange student at Lund University School of Economics and Management in Sweden.
Her research interests include social networks, computational methods, social psychology, and population health. Man-Lin is passionate about investigating how social relationships influence inequality, particularly during individuals’ early life stages, and exploring the… Read more
Mingze Li holds a B.A. in Economics with a minor in International Relations and Public Policy Analysis from Boston University and an M.S. in Social Policy from the University of Pennsylvania. Prior to joining the Department of Sociology, Mingze served as a Quantitative Research Assistant at the UPenn Center for Guaranteed Income Research, where he focused on evaluating guaranteed income pilot programs.
Mingze’s research sits at the intersection of demography, immigration, and policy… Read more
Karthik is entering the program at UW after completing his B.A. in Psychology at the University of Rochester and his M.S. in Sociology at Brown University. He chose UW because he appreciates the quantitative focus the department here provides, while also encouraging and fostering opportunities for interdisciplinary research.
While here, Karthik is interested in studying the intersections of art, music, and culture and how they influence perceptions of identity within and… Read more
America’s homeless services system relies on a massive amount of data, and at first glance, that data is exacting. Federal reports describe the country’s unhoused population in granular detail, listing precisely how many people are experiencing homelessness in each city along with detailed demographic data. Want to know how many people ages 55-64 slept outside in Spokane last year? A spreadsheet confidently provides the answer: … Read more
Much of what can make linking friends scary — insecurity, envy, an instinct to hold tight to the people you love — isn’t new; it’s fundamentally human. But keeping your friends to yourself, what I call “friend hoarding,” is a modern practice. Katherine Stovel, professor and chair of sociology at the UW, is quoted.Featured
on The Atlantic
The new Crutchfield-Tolnay Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Research will be given annually to an undergraduate who has made strong contributions to either independent or collaborative research in the Department of Sociology. In addition to being recognized at our annual department graduation event, the recipient will receive a $1000 award.
Students are nominated by Sociology professors, instructors, and TAs and selected by the department’s Awards & Community Life Committee, which… Read more
New research is shedding light on how war inflicts mortality, displaces families and erodes mental health. Nathalie Williams, professor of sociology and of international studies at the UW, is quoted.
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on Salon