A selection of news articles about diversity efforts and issues at UW and across the country. 
Scholars Urges Supreme Court to Keep Voting Rights Act
Political science and law scholars from the UW and elsewhere file a brief saying the Supreme Court should fully uphold the Voting Rights Act in a case out of Shelby County, Ala. Learn more
Winter 2011
- UW GenOM Project Earns Award
- At Ethnic Cultural Center building site, fencing tells a story
- New center to develop interventions for writing, reading disabilities
- UW Honors its First African American Senior Administrator, the late Samuel E. Kelly
- Emerging Scholars: Righting Social Wrongs — Alexes Harris
- Ethnic Cultural Center to be named for Samuel E. Kelly
- From ‘American Knees’ to ‘Americanese’
- Award-winning organization inspires underrepresented students to explore sciences
- New online guide aids recruitment andretention of minority graduate students
- Jewish Studies Program launches series on human injustice
- Across generations: New center unites researchers in women, children, and adolescent health
- Graduate School calls for increased minority recruitment, fellowships for grad students
- MIT grad brings show about women, math to UW
- iSchool students archive Buddhist monastery material (with slide show)
- LGBT seniors face harder old age, national study finds
Fall 2011
- Office of Minority Affairs and Diversity Receives $3.96 million GEAR UP Grant
- Education Nation: UW Professor Dr. Frances Contreras on Equity, Diversity Learning
- Sheila Edwards Lange Named One of Top Women Executives
- Racial and Gender Gaps Persist in Higher Education
- Council to Examine Completion Rates of Minority Ph.D. Students in Science
- Class-Based Policies Are Not a Remedy for Racial Inequality
- Crossing the Digital Divide
- Cynthia del Rosario to Receive Diversity Award for Community Building
Summer 2011
- Dean of Arts & Sciences, Ana Mari Cauce, receives the Minority Fellowship Program of the American Psychological Association’s James M. Jones Lifetime Achievement Award
- College-educated undocumented young adults face same narrow range of jobs as their parents
- Race matters when recruiting, retaining undergraduate women engineers
- UW Nurse Camp creates collegiate opportunities for minority and low-income high school students
- Local, diverse catering companies shine at Business Diversity Program’s event
- Around the world, with medical genetics
- College-educated undocumented young adults face same narrow range of jobs as their parents
- Race matters when recruiting, retaining undergraduate women engineers
- UW Nurse Camp creates collegiate opportunities for minority and low-income high school students