February 11, 2008
Key Arena was packed beyond its 18,000 person capacity by 11 a.m.

February 6, 2008
Starting next month, the UW will begin to offer free human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccinations for students with UW health insurance plans.

January 31, 2008
For the past month, ethnic violence has devastated Kenya, one of Africa’s most developed and historically stable countries.

January 29, 2008
While many undergraduates consider graduate school as an option following graduation, continuing in an academic environment isn’t for everyone.

January 11, 2008

October 17, 2007
The role of government in the sale of alcohol is a touchy subject, economically speaking.

May 29, 2007
Last week, Pope Benedict XVI apologized to those who were offended by his remark in Brazil earlier this month when he said "Christ was the savior [America's natives] silently yearned for."

May 23, 2007
Teenagers who use a condom the first time they have sex are just as likely to have as many sexual partners as teens who didn't, and less likely to contract gonorrhea and chlamydia, UW researchers say.

May 22, 2007
Everyone knows that robbing a bank can be dangerous, but most people don't foresee a bank robbery igniting a civil war. But in Lebanon, things like that can happen, especially when the robbers belong to an organization with links to Syria, the Lebanese government's nemesis par excellence.

May 17, 2007
Students who attended former Catholic priest Charles Hardy's talk on contemporary Venezuela yesterday got a crash course on Latin America's most controversial country.

May 15, 2007

May 14, 2007
A sea of orange flooded the UW campus Friday as hundreds of students sported brightly colored T-shirts with the word "Orphan" boldly displayed across their chests.

May 8, 2007
With an overwhelming 53 percent of the vote, French conservative Nicolas Sarkozy won the French presidential election Sunday against his female rival, Ségolène Royal.

May 1, 2007

April 30, 2007
More than 100 student protesters of the UW's Sweat Free Coalition (SFC) marched past thousands of UW students, staff and visiting high schoolers in Red Square Friday, as they demanded an end to the use of sweatshop labor for the production of UW apparel.

April 27, 2007
World-famous developmental economist Jeffrey Sachs held a video conference with UW students yesterday that was sponsored by Americans for Informed Democracy (AID), a student organization that focuses on educating the public about international issues like malaria, world poverty and AIDS.

April 26, 2007
The UW is set to be the scene of a mock massacre today, as students gather from 12:10-12:40 p.m. in Red Square and symbolically "die in" as a representation of the estimated 200,000 Darfurian Muslims who have been killed by the Sudanese Army and Arab militias over the past four years.

April 24, 2007
Last week President Bush stood before a group of Holocaust survivors and made what sounded like a strong statement against the genocidal Sudanese regime: "The time for promises is over — [Sudan's] President Bashir must act."

April 17, 2007

April 12, 2007
After typing "Canning River, Alaska" into Google Earth, a satellite image of the planet's surface swivels downward from the North Pole until all that's visible is a dark blue river delta on a vast yellow and brown tundra plain, buffeted to the north by the ice packs of the Arctic Ocean.

April 11, 2007
Imperialism, revolution and the Chinese in America were key topics last night, as four lecture panelists discussed the publication of the new book "Our History is Still Being Written," a story of three Cuban-Chinese revolutionaries who fought the American-backed Batista regime in the 1950s.

April 10, 2007
It's hard to pinpoint the moment when a revolution begins to unfold. Sometimes there's a tea party, other times group leaders are murdered and made into martyrs for the revolutionary cause.

April 3, 2007

March 6, 2007

February 27, 2007
The Bush administration has always had some trying "allies." First there was Saudi Arabia, home to 15 of the 19 9/11 hijackers and one of the world's worst violators of human rights.

February 20, 2007

February 13, 2007
On Sunday afternoon, a group of 30 journalists from the world's biggest media agencies met in a room in Baghdad with three representatives from the United States.

February 6, 2007

January 23, 2007

January 16, 2007