Voyage, a travel magazine produced by students at the UW, hosted a release party for their second issue last Wednesday night from 6-8 p.m. at the Parnassus Cafe and Gallery.

On Wednesday evening, UW’s Sizeism and Weightism Advocacy Group (SWAG) held a workshop on stigmas surrounding body image and size at the School of Social Work. The first in a series of three, this workshop focused on the intersectionality of weight and size stigmas with other forms of oppression. 

“Liberty,” designed on canvas by artist Wissam Al-Jazaeri, depicts the form of a man’s head, gashed at the neck, with a bird flying to his left. The painting makes reference to the gruesome slaughtering of singer Ibrahim Qashoush after he sang before a protest of thousands as part of the 201…

Of the 10,000 homeless people in King County, there were 4,505 living unsheltered in 2015. Among those 4,505 people, roughly 33 percent of them were females, and 100 percent of these females had limited or no access to feminine hygiene products.

Hundreds filled Kane Hall on Friday night to hear anti-racist activist, speaker, and writer Tim Wise at an event that was planned by UW Public Lectures months in advance, well before President Donald Trump became a reality. 

Last Friday, an intimate crowd gathered in an upstairs room of the HUB to hear Ted Way, co-founder of the nonprofit [Has Heart], talk about his experience connecting army veterans with artists to create meaningful healing and tell their stories. 

Red Square becomes the site of anti-Trump protests and activism

Veritas Forum brings opposing religious views together

Last Friday, the wǝɫǝbʔaltxʷ Intellectual House was full of students, faculty, and community members who gathered to celebrate the works and narratives of indigenous women-identifying scholars.

Interfaith dinner brings religious communities closer

This summer, students from 180 colleges will bike across the United States for the Ulman Cancer Fund for Young Adults’ annual fundraising trip. The 4k for Cancer fundraiser aims to create a community of support for young adults and their families who are affected by cancer.

Stores on the Ave are notorious for having a quick turnover rate, making the accomplishments of those which have withstood the test of time all the more impressive. That is why it was such a surprise when Moksha announced it would be moving.

In an effort to keep people safe, one group of UW students came together to form “de-escalation teams” to help calm any would-be instigators during a day of tumultuous protests.

Shais Rishon paced back and forth before the audience of Kane Hall on Wednesday night. His composure was laid back as he stood dressed in a blazer, tie, slacks, and a yarmulke atop his head. Cast on the projection screen was a video paused and ready to play, as the trickle of listeners into …

The Urbananalytics project is expected to use urban data to analyze surrounding environment, transportation, and housing. 

Starting this quarter, UW students will have yet another opportunity to learn to climb on campus, take classes, and practice technical skills in a newly accessible space called the Climbery. 

It was an evening of fiery dance, poignant song, and comic mischief Saturday as UW students from the Chinese Student Association (CSA) hosted the 50th Annual Lunar New Year Gala at Kane Hall. 

The UW Hyperloop team makes it easy to believe that the Hyperloop is a straight shot to the future. A conceptual idea first proposed by Elon Musk in 2013, the Hyperloop uses a series of tubes to transport high-speed pods in an attempt to revolutionize transportation. 

Moments from the Friday Inauguration Day protests and the Saturday Women's March in the U-District and Seattle.

Former Black Panther Kathleen Cleaver speaks at the ECC

Protesters and police clashed on Inauguration Day

An Inauguration Day protest organized by UW Resistance by Employees and Students in Solidarity Together (UW RESIST) began Friday morning around 11 a.m. in Red Square with three speakers before attendees and organizers marched into Odegaard Library.

A shooting at Red Square on Friday night left one man wounded and another in custody, the UW police report. The incident occurred during protests surrounding a speech given by Breitbart News Network senior editor and far-right activist Milo Yiannopoulos, sponsored by the UW College Republicans.

Start-up company EvoEco to begin waste audits in Local Point 

The program will officially end on March 31, with no public timeline for when the stations will be removed. 

Outside the Mechanical Engineering Building, hidden behind a metallic door near the parking lots, is a large workshop known to the UW Formula Motorsports team as the pit.

King County Councilmember Larry Gossett visited the Samuel E. Kelly Ethnic Cultural Center (ECC) yesterday to speak with current students and community members about his experiences with activism.

Late Tuesday evening, retired congressman Jim McDermott held a lecture giving a behind-the-scenes look at president-elect Donald Trump’s transition to power. This lecture served as a precursor to a six-week symposium McDermott will be teaching in the Jackson School of International Studies a…

Despite the cold temperatures these past two months, Glacie Creamery, the new ice cream shop in the HUB, created a lot of excitement at its grand opening yesterday.

On Jan. 12, the UW Board of Regents approved the construction of a new Computer Science & Engineering (CSE) building that will open in 2019. The new building’s main purpose is to allow the university to double the number of CSE degrees it awards each year and significantly reduce the num…

Seattle’s healthy startup culture has led to many UW graduates working at new companies, even ones that didn’t exist when those students started their UW careers. With the addition of the new Master of Science in entrepreneurship degree, graduates won’t just be working at startups, they’ll b…

On Friday, Jan. 13, the Samuel E. Kelly Ethnic Cultural Center (ECC) was filled with students, faculty, and community members for the annual Martin Luther King Jr. week teach-in. 

Poet to the People] held its first bi-monthly Open Mic of 2017 on Thursday evening. The event and diverse turnout was a great success as poets, musicians, spoken word artists, and a stand up comedian took the stage of the Kelly Ethnic Cultural Center & Theatre at the UW.

Jessie Gamble, a UW student coordinating the Milo Yiannopoulos event and president of the College Republicans of the UW, was recently the subject of a flyer anonymously published online calling her a white supremacist and racist while disseminating her contact information, social media, and …

From 11:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. on Wednesday, the HUB lobby was transformed into a birthday celebration honoring Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Hosted by the Carlson Center, the party was the signature event of MLK Week at the UW. 

If you were wanting to lose weight, would you be focusing on the scale and weighing yourself as often as possible, or would you focus on diet and exercise?

The UW School of Law hosted the lecture, entitled “Speech and Counter Speech: Rights & Responsibilities,” as part of a series put on by the Race and Equity Initiative.

The UW accounting department has collaborated with United Way King County to host a Volunteer Income Tax Assistance (VITA) site located in Paccar Hall 297 and will operate Monday-Wednesday from 6-9 p.m. until the tax deadline in April.

On Dec. 29, Sen. Michael Baumgartner, R-Spokane, announced that he will be proposing a bill to block universities from engaging in protests targeted at the state of Israel. 

With its engaging discussions, emotional artistic performances, and active days of service, MLK week will be a respectful way of honoring the contributions of Dr. King to the nation. 

Recently, the RSO SEVA UW hosted a langar, an area like a canteen where food is served for free to visitors from any background. The langar took place on Friday in the HUB, where students from various faiths, cultures, and beliefs gathered together to enjoy a warm meal. 

The entrenchment of money in politics doesn’t seem to be going away anytime soon. For those unable to afford donating to the political candidates they support, Seattle is the first in the nation to approve democracy vouchers.