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<p style="margin:0in;background:white"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">The Office of Undergraduate Research is pleased to announce the call for applications for the
</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#0563C1"><a href="https://www.washington.edu/undergradresearch/siah/" target="_blank"><span style="color:#0563C1;text-decoration:none">2026 Summer Institute in the Arts & Humanities
(SIAH)</span></a></span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">! SIAH offers an opportunity for undergraduates to engage in scholarly research with accomplished scholars and peers while earning full-time academic credit.
Student participants will receive a $7,500 scholarship, develop research related to an interdisciplinary theme, and formally present their work at a closing symposium. </span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0in;background:white"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">This year’s theme is
</span><b><i><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#0563C1"><a href="https://www.washington.edu/undergradresearch/summer/siah-links/2026-siah-theme/" target="_blank"><span style="color:#0563C1;text-decoration:none">Seattle’s World
Cup: Storytelling Through Community Mapping</span></a></span></i></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">, will be developed and taught by Professors Caley Cook and Ron Krabill along with Ph.D. candidate Yasir Zaidan: </span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<i><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">As they hype around Seattle’s hosting of the 2026 FIFA Men’s World Cup continue to build, we often hear that “<b>the world is coming to Seattle!</b>” But what does that really mean?
The 2026 Summer Institute will use <b>innovative community mapping </b>alongside other arts and humanities methodologies (which could include photo and video essays, podcasts, journalistic reporting, blogging, etc.) to tell stories surrounding Seattle’s experience
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SIAH Application Information</span></a></span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black"> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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