As a graduate student, theater professor Patrick Sims became engrossed in the story of lynching survivor James Cameron. For a decade, he's been working to create a one-man play that preserves Cameron's place in history.
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The flamboyant Joseph Jastrow founded the UW’s psychology department and helped shape the fledgling science.
Certain friends can help kids who are picked on at school.
As profit margins shrink and technological change speeds up, academic publishers face an uncertain future — but the UW Press is adapting to the new realities of bookselling in the twenty-first century.
Longtime sociological study continues with in-home interviews.
Conventional wisdom says that TV is bad for kids, but research is finding that good messages can prevail — if parents choose programming wisely.
Pop quiz: Is the TV show Hannah Montana educational? If your answer is no, guess again.