Explore the College of Arts & Sciences: UW's Admitted Student Day
10:30 AM and 12:00 PM | Arrive Early and Start Strong with College Edge - College of Arts & Sciences Information Session
10:30 - 12:30 PM | Open House: Natural Sciences Majors in Action
11:30 - 1:30 PM | Open House: Understanding and Changing the World through the Social Sciences
12:30 - 2:00 PM | Open House: Your Creative Future at the UW, Meet the Arts Programs
12:30 - 2:00 PM | Open House | Meet the Humanities: Languages, Study Abroad, Creative Writing & More
Learn more about UW Admitted Student Day.
Please note: ASD is now at capacity. What next? Sign up for the ASD waitlist , Join us for an online information session , Attend other campus events in April.
Event interval: Single day event. Accessibility Contact: asinfo@uw.edu. Event Types: Information Sessions. Special Events.
Saturday, April 4, 2026, 10:30 AM – 2:00 PM.
For more info visit artsci.washington.edu. Geography Major Information Session
Join us virtually via Zoom to learn about opportunities and resources in the Department of Geography and how to declare the major! This information session will discuss the general geography major and the geography data science option.
Register for this session!
Event interval: Single day event. Accessibility Contact: Nell Gross, ngross@uw.edu. Event Types: Information Sessions. Target Audience: Undergraduate Students.
Thursday, April 9, 2026, 2:30 PM – 3:30 PM.
Online via Zoom.
For more info visit washington.zoom.us. Geography Colloquium: Elizabeth Roberts, University of MIchigan
In Praise of Addiction: Dependency in a Damaged World
Taking lessons from her years in Mexico City as well as from addiction researchers, harm reduction activists, and scholars of religion, philosophy, and anthropology, Roberts pays close attention to the external forces that so often fuel the damage of addiction, to share a new understanding of addiction. The adverse health effects brought on by their dependencies on Coca-Cola, processed foods, drugs, and alcohol have more to do with the ongoing effects of the drug war and NAFTA than any personal failings. Taking up this ecological framework, Roberts draws a line between vice that isolates and addiction that connects, a distinction she movingly integrates into her own life and family, making a case for sharing in the pleasures—and suffering—of dependency.
Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Smith Hall (SMI). Campus room: 304. Accessibility Contact: Erin McElroy, erinmcel@uw.edu. Event Types: Lectures/Seminars. Target Audience: Undergraduate Students. Graduate Students. Faculty. Staff. Alumni.
Friday, April 17, 2026, 3:30 PM – 4:30 PM.
Geography Major Information Session
Join us virtually via Zoom to learn about opportunities and resources in the Department of Geography and how to declare the major! This information session will discuss the general geography major and the geography data science option.
Register for this session!
Event interval: Single day event. Accessibility Contact: Nell Gross, ngross@uw.edu. Event Types: Information Sessions. Target Audience: Undergraduate Students.
Thursday, April 23, 2026, 2:30 PM – 3:30 PM.
Online via Zoom.
For more info visit washington.zoom.us. Geography Colloquium: Gabi Kirk, Cal Poly Humboldt
Cultivating Sustainable Sovereignty: Palestinian Agrarian Lives in Transnational Focus
Palestinian agro-ecological and food systems have changed due to settler colonialism over time, and Palestinians’ agricultural practices and relationships—their food sovereignty efforts—serve their struggles for cultural and political sovereignty. Furthermore, the struggle for Palestinian food sovereignty has turned global, and has been shaped by both transnational placemaking networks of solidarity and the booms and busts of global capital.
Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Smith Hall (SMI). Campus room: 304. Accessibility Contact: Erin McElroy, erinmcel@uw.edu. Event Types: Lectures/Seminars. Target Audience: Undergraduate Students. Graduate Students. Faculty. Staff. Alumni.
Friday, April 24, 2026, 3:30 PM – 4:30 PM.
Geography New Student Orientation (participation required to declare the geography major)
Understand requirements in the geography major, including the data science option, plus get help with next quarter's registration! Students who attend this orientation session will complete the major declaration process. In order to attend, students must follow instructions to Declare the Major in Geography.
Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Smith Hall (SMI). Campus room: SMI 415C. Accessibility Contact: Nell Gross, ngross@uw.edu. Event Types: Information Sessions. Academics. Target Audience: Undergraduate Students.
Tuesday, April 28, 2026, 3:30 PM – 4:30 PM.
Geography New Student Orientation (participation required to declare the geography major)
Understand requirements in the geography major, including the data science option, plus get help with next quarter's registration! Students who attend this orientation session will complete the major declaration process. In order to attend, students must follow instructions to Declare the Major in Geography and then register for the orientation session.
Event interval: Single day event. Accessibility Contact: Nell Gross, ngross@uw.edu. Event Types: Information Sessions. Academics. Target Audience: Undergraduate Students.
Thursday, April 30, 2026, 11:30 AM – 12:30 PM.
Online via Zoom.
For more info visit washington.zoom.us. Geography Colloquium: Jessi Quizar, University of Washington Tacoma
Settler Colonialism, Anti-Blackness, and Policing for Land Transfer in Detroit
This talk focuses on the example of a gentrifying Detroit to examine ways that policing has long been used as a tool towards white-settler occupation of land. The talk will consider two Detroit police programs—the Greenlight Surveillance Program and Operation Restore Order—that emerged in the context of massive transfer of land in the city from Black to white hands from 2010-2025. It examines these as rooted in both anti-Black legacies of militarized policing and settler legacies of militarized policing, which have been wielded to displace, remove, and make places hostile for ‘undesirable’ people, to then prepare those places for resettlement.
Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Smith Hall (SMI). Campus room: 304. Accessibility Contact: Erin McElroy, erinmcel@uw.edu. Event Types: Lectures/Seminars. Target Audience: Undergraduate Students. Graduate Students. Faculty. Staff. Alumni.
Friday, May 15, 2026, 3:30 PM – 4:30 PM.
Memorial Day
Holidays
No classes. Most University offices and buildings are closed. Check with specific offices to confirm.
Event interval: Single day event. Year: 2026. Quarter: Spring. Event Types: Academics.
Monday, May 25, 2026.
For more info visit www.washington.edu. Geography Undergraduate Research Symposium
Each year, the Department of Geography features outstanding undergraduate research projects in the Geography Undergraduate Research Symposium. We look forward to welcoming our student participants as well as audience members from our department community!
Registration coming soon!
Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Smith Hall (SMI). Campus room: 409. Accessibility Contact: Nell Gross, ngross@uw.edu. Event Types: Academics. Lectures/Seminars. Special Events. Student Activities.
Friday, June 5, 2026, 10:00 AM – 12:00 PM.
For more info visit geography.washington.edu. Geography Undergraduate Research Symposium
Each year, the Department of Geography features outstanding undergraduate research projects in the Geography Undergraduate Research Symposium. We look forward to welcoming our student participants as well as audience members from our department community!
Registration coming soon!
Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Smith Hall (SMI). Campus room: 404. Accessibility Contact: Nell Gross, ngross@uw.edu. Event Types: Academics. Lectures/Seminars. Special Events. Student Activities.
Friday, June 5, 2026, 1:00 PM – 5:00 PM.
For more info visit geography.washington.edu. Juneteenth
Holidays
No classes. Most University offices and buildings are closed. Check with specific offices to confirm.
Event interval: Single day event. Year: 2026. Quarter: Summer. Event Types: Academics.
Friday, June 19, 2026.
For more info visit www.washington.edu.