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Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ undergraduate and alumni dancers work with with famed choreographer Robert Moses to create the piece “Draft,” one of five pieces to be performed by Robert Moses’ Kin May 29-31 in the Meany Studio Theatre. Read the story and watch a film by Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµVideo.

Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ political scientist John Wilkerson has matched data visualization with the study of lawmaking to create a new online tool for researchers and students called the Legislative Explorer. Think of it as big data meeting up with How a Bill Becomes a Law. “The goal was to get beyond the ‘Schoolhouse Rock’ narrative and let users discover the lawmaking process for themselves,” said Wilkerson, Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ professor of political science and director of the Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ’s Center for American Politics…

Many Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ students will greet spring break next week from a warm sandy beach, but 69 of them will instead spend their week off helping young students in rural communities learn about art, literacy and the environment. In turn, these Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ students will learn about life, culture and education in rural Washington.

Imitation may be the sincerest form of flattery for adults, but for babies it’s their foremost tool for learning. Now researchers from the Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ and Temple University have found the first evidence revealing a key aspect of the brain processing that occurs in babies to allow this learning by observation.