Michael Honey, a history professor at UW Tacoma, collected, edited and wrote introductions for 16 of King's speeches on economic justice.

In "Profit of Education," UW economics Professor Dick Startz says America's public school system can be fixed if we raise teacher salaries 40 percent, an increase that can pay for itself nine times over.

A survey of registered voters in Washington state shows incumbent Patty Murray four percentage points ahead of former state Sen. Dino Rossi in the race for U.S. Senate, down from 8 points two weeks ago.

Two elite blogs often post the most interesting political videos that are then picked up by top general-interest blogs.

Digital media, such as mobile phones and the Internet, have become all but essential in building democracies.

Tea party websites show more emphasis on topics beyond size of government

The city of Leon has lent 9,000 square feet, rent free, in El Palacio del Conde de Luna.

Eight of 10 students said that to get their research underway, they often go to Wikipedia for background information.

Cell phone use peaked on Thursdays, Fridays and during afternoon rush hour, when the ratio was one in 13.

Project originators teach the journalism they practice: independent, multimedia, funded by a number of sources.

Close is one of six nominees and holder of the UW's highest award for graduates

Research by nearly 80 students and faculty showing how the Great Depression radically transformed Washington can be viewed on a new Web page

Washington has it own history of the people who have toiled in the state's fields and orchards for nearly a century and a half and those who tried to change existing conditions. That story has gone largely untold. That's no longer the case because a group of University of Washington students and faculty have developed a new multimedia Web page that tells this story.

Less than a year ago a UW engineering lab was the first to generate ceramic objects in a 3-D printer. Now the lab has done it again, for glass.

Heather McHugh, Milliman Distinguished Writer-in-Residence in the Creative Writing Program of the English Department of the University of Washington, has been named a 2009 MacArthur Fellow by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation.

A statistical analysis reveals distinct patterns in the placement of Indus symbols, and creates a hypothetical model for the unknown language.

Judges chose from 35 entries, each 90 seconds long, created with pocket-size recording devices.

Eighty-one percent of Hispanics approve of Obama's actions during his first 100 days, and 67 percent approve of Congressional actions.

Scholars have recently questioned whether ancient Indus inscriptions code for language. A UW computer scientist used statistics to show that the 4,500-year-old Indus symbols' pattern follows that of other spoken languages.

A new, not-so-secret recipe uses artist-grade ceramics powder for 3-D printing. Ceramics objects can now be printed for about 3 percent the cost of commercial printing mixes.

The UW will signed an agreement Tuesday for 9,000 square feet in the Palace of the Conde de Luna. UW President Mark Emmert will participate in opening ceremonies this May.

UW scholars have shined new light on one of the darkest chapters of Washington history - the days when the Ku Klux Klan was a temporary force in the state.

Hanson Hosein, a professor of communication, recorded small-businesses' efforts to regenerate in the city.

Authoritarian regimes around the world are dealing with troublesome citizen bloggers by arresting them, and they're doing it more often, according to researchers at the University of Washington.

Sixteen UW students, members of David Domke's course in online journalism and politics, have covered presidential caucuses and primaries in Idaho and Washington state. They're heading to Texas to cover caucuses and the primary on Tuesday.

Pending approval by the Board of Regents, Stephen Kieran and James Timberlake will hold a UW professorship in sustainability, one of the first such professorships in the U.S.

In Going Down Jericho Road, UW Tacoma author Michael Honey lays out parallels between national problems in 1968 and the ones we face now.

An article published this month recommends practical support followed by formal psychological intervention if necessary.

Poets Robert Bly and Martin Espada will speak at separate events in May.

New Directions in Scandinavian Studies issued its first volume this year, and Nordic Film Classics will issue its first two in 2007.

It can't bring Seattle any sun from Salamanca, but a Cervantes Institute, which opened this fall at the UW, promises culture from Spain and Latin America plus online Spanish courses.

"Americanese," the film based on a novel by UW professor Shawn Wong, will be distributed nationally this summer.

More than 500 of the brightest student minds in the state will share the findings of their research that range from the frontiers of science to Seattle's coffee culture at the ninth annual Undergraduate Research Symposium Friday

According to a new study that used motion-capture technology to analyze and accurately recreate the moves of dancing Jamaican teens, people appear able to pick genetically superior partners based on how they dance.

Two parallel, but largely separate, migrations of more than 20 million black and white Americans in the 20th century transformed politics, culture and religion in the United States.

"Headlines: Emerging Architectural Ideas" coming in April will be a first-ever exhibit of 100 designs that collectively show "what's about to happen" in the built environment of the region's cities and towns.

Information School to expand training and outreach in children and youth services with professorship in honor of noted children's writer.

Seattle's post-Viaduct waterfront should provide an outdoor educational environment for studying history, culture and ecology -- as well as a skateboard park. So say high school students at Queen Anne's Center School who were asked to inject the voice of youth into the future of the downtown waterfront.

Forty architecture students soon will head to Montana to help the Northern Cheyenne tribe build a house out of straw.

Now that utility and paving crews have given "The Ave" a new foundation, University of Washington architecture students are about to give the shops a facelift.

A pig-roasting pit at a garden used by elderly immigrants and a hanging play structure for an experimental preschool are among the University of Washington projects highlighted in a new book on innovative joint ventures between schools of architecture and local communities.

A birch bark manuscript from a Buddhist monastery, believed to have been written in the first or second century A.D., was recently acquired by the University of Washington Libraries and will become a key component of the Early Buddhist Manuscripts Project.

Researchers at the University of Washington have learned that something most people take for granted is not true: that the force of fluids within the human body helps to break the adhesive bonds of invasive bacteria and counterbalance infection.

An extensive Internet art exhibit and dozens of educational events presented by the University of Washington will enhance cellist Yo-Yo Ma's Silk Road Project when the international extravaganza hits Seattle starting this month.

They sound like games: Digital Sandbox, Mouse Haus, Electronic Cocktail Napkin, Navigation Blocks, Space Pen. But they are not for kids -- they are tools invented by the UW's Design Machine Group to unleash architects' and designers' collaboration and creativity.

American students abroad, as the stereotype goes, soak up atmosphere and dig into local cuisine.

Some of the finest living Northwest Coastal Native artists will demonstrate their carving, weaving and musical talents at the third annual Native American Arts Celebration at the Burke Museum of Natural History and Culture.

Robert Mugerauer, Sid Richardson Centennial Professor at the University of Texas at Austin's School of Architecture, has been selected to be the next dean of the University of Washington College of Architecture and Urban Planning, effective Sept. 1.

Some future teachers have spent their final quarter at the University of Washington on center stage, with a paintbrush and pallet in hand, while considering music theory.