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Volunteers Bring Their Digital Skills to Help Save Chinatown's RestaurantsSend Chinatown Love is a volunteer-run organization using digital tools and donations to help businesses that were struggling through the pandemic. Now, with winter coming and restaurants shuttering all over New York City, the group’s 27 volunteers are determined to help Chinatown establishments hold out as long as possible.
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Block Party at The Station elevates artists of color, LGBTQ artists, and youthThe free event in the Beacon Hill neighborhood primarily showcases hip-hop artists and seeks to provide a welcoming environment for people of color, the LGBTQ community and youth.
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Seattle Mom Prom celebrates women and raises money for charitySeattle is one of 90 cities hosting a Mom Prom. The event is Saturday, May 20, and benefits Perinatal Support Washington.
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Foster care agency bridging racial gap by recruiting families of colorAmara's initiative to recruit more African-American foster parents will involve building relationships with community leaders, forming an African-American advisory council, and developing a new outreach plan.
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Seattle’s fiercest bike fight is settled — or is it?After more than two decades of bickering among bicycle and pedestrian advocates and business interests, Seattle appears to have finally settled on a route for the “missing link” — the controversial final 1.4 miles of the city’s beloved Burke-Gilman Trail. But the fight is not over yet.
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Seattle’s hills are the worst. Here’s a way to cope.AccessMap, which launched this month, is an online travel planner that helps users find accessible routes in Seattle. It lets them customize their routes to avoid obstacles like steep hills, sidewalks without curb cuts, and construction sites.
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Campus sexual assault: Washington students still woefully uninformedEstablishing more universal policies is a work in progress that state administrators, Title IX coordinators, student groups and other entities are tackling in a collaborative effort.
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State’s attorneys: Win protects law, individualsThe state of Washington’s attorneys celebrated a federal appeals court refusal to reinstate President Donald Trump’s partial immigration ban as a legal victory for constitutional rights and for people whose lives had been disrupted by the administration action.
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Lawmakers try to curb student debtHoping to make sure that students and their families understand student loan debt, state Attorney General Bob Ferguson and a bipartisan group of lawmakers have proposed legislation requiring colleges to notify students about their loan balances and estimated monthly payments.
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Connecting to Pacific Islander cultureFrom high school outreach, to cultural celebrations, to environmental and political activism, PSA and MIC are increasing awareness of Pacific Islander culture on campus.
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Student employees demand compliance with all-gender restroom city ordinanceThough many single-stall bathrooms at the UW have been designated as all-gender bathrooms, many remain labeled as either men or women’s. Academic student employees in UAW Local 4121’s Trans Equity Working Group have demanded the UW comply with the mayor’s ordinance, citing an article in their collective bargaining agreement that guarantees reasonable access to all-gender restrooms.
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UW study: With parents’ support, transgender children experience positive mental healthTransgender children who are supported in their identities experience lower levels of depression and anxiety than those who are not, according to a recent study published by UW researchers.
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HFS dining plan prices to increase by 5 percentThe price for dining plans from Housing & Food Services (HFS) on campus will increase by 5 percent beginning next fall quarter to accommodate increasing food prices and higher wages for student employees.
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Innocence Project Northwest: Attorneys, law students, and volunteers work to free innocent prisoners in WashingtonClients apply to have their case considered by IPNW by filling out an application and mailing it to the law school. From there, IPNW attorneys, UW School of Law students, and volunteers evaluate the cases and work on requests for new DNA testing or other types of reexamination of evidence.
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Tyler Wu delivers first ever State of the ASUW addressWu began by discussing the history of the ASUW and his involvement since his freshman year. He then spoke about the ASUW’s accomplishments during autumn quarter, divided into categories of access and affordability, community cohesion, and student safety.
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A home away from home: College Assistance Migrant Program supports students from farm working backgroundsThe College Assistance Migrant Program (CAMP) supports students from migrant and seasonal farm working backgrounds during their first year in college. The federally-funded program provides a quarterly stipend, access to job opportunities, counseling, tutoring, and social activities.
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Community stalls UW plans to purchase KPLUAccording to representatives of both stations, there are many benefits to the purchase, a primary one being improved 94.9 FM signal coverage for multiple areas around the Puget Sound, including Thurston County, Pacific County, Skagit County, and Victoria, British Columbia.
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American Ethnic Studies department celebrates 30 years of multidisciplinary educationThis year the American Ethnic Studies (AES) department celebrates its 30 year anniversary of becoming a department at the UW. In 1985, the Black Studies Program, the Asian American Studies Program, and the Center for Chicano Studies combined to form the AES department.
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eScience Institute launches Data Science for Social Good programThis summer, data scientists at the UW’s eScience Institute launched the Data Science for Social Good (DSSG) program, which matched data scientists with UW students, high schoolers, and local organizations seeking to address urban social issues in Seattle.
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Hundreds protest in second No New Animal Lab marchOn Friday, about 300 students and animal rights activists marched to protest the UW’s construction of a new Animal Research and Care Facility. This march was the second demonstration organized by the No New Animal Lab campaign this year.
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UW professor and undergraduates research radical labor unionDuring the past year, UW history professor James Gregory has been researching the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW), a radical labor union founded in 1905. This research is part of Gregory’s larger project called the Pacific Northwest Labor and Civil Rights Project, which he started in 2007.
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Laverne Cox discusses gender identity and acceptance with UW communityOn Tuesday night, Laverne Cox spoke to more than 1,000 audience members in the HUB Ballroom. Known for her role on the Netflix series “Orange is the New Black,” Cox spoke about her experience as an African-American transgender woman.
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Hundreds protest construction of new Animal Research and Care FacilityHundreds of activists gathered to protest the construction of the UW’s new underground Animal Research and Care Facility on Saturday afternoon. About 300 UW students, animal rights activists, and other members of the Seattle community gathered in Red Square and marched throughout the UW campus.
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UW TAs protestThe administration proposed eliminating two fee waivers for teaching assistants (TAs), student researchers, and other academic student employees.
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Seattle Cambodian community celebrates culture at annual New Year ShowThe HUB ballroom was filled with UW students, parents, grandparents, and young children. Each year, KhSA’s show brings together Cambodian-Americans from throughout Seattle and gives them an opportunity to celebrate as a community.
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