Solutions
June 10, 2025
When impact really matters
In trying times, UW Impact leads the way with grassroots support for higher education.
June 4, 2025
Take the plunge
Members of the Golden Gardens Swim Club, many of them UW alumni, enjoy the thrills and chills of open water swimming in Puget Sound.
Thinking outside the bot
AI expert Brian Christian explores the tricky dynamics between human behavior and artificial intelligence.
May 12, 2025
AI bias and benefit
Graduate student Kate Glazko explores generative technology and its impact on people with disabilities.
May 8, 2025
An outspoken approach
UW Tacoma professor Carolyn West, a leading authority on relationship violence, is savvy about discussing domestic violence in her media appearances.
March 19, 2025
Giving trees
UW Facilities' Salvage Wood Program provides new homes for felled trees on campus. A new grant creates even greater possibilities for students.
March 17, 2025
Nurturing the whole child
Researchers at the UW Center for Child & Family Well-Being create practical tools to improve mental health for parents, caregivers and young people.
Hard science, soft skills
A new endowed faculty fellowship at UW Bothell empowers astrophysics professor Joey Shapiro Key to make STEM topics more appealing and accessible.
March 11, 2025
Facing down COVID-19
The UW's contributions to testing, vaccinations and research have been groundbreaking over the past five years.
Sensing solutions
A traffic sensor in Toppenish could help reduce car accidents at a dangerous highway intersection.
Aquarist extraordinaire
Now a supervisor of birds and mammals with the Seattle Aquarium, Aubrey Theiss took an unconventional path to her dream career.
March 5, 2025
United vision
A new relationship between UW Medicine and Fred Hutch creates the UW’s nationally renowned adult cancer program.
January 30, 2025
True alchemy
UW Bioengineering grad Amanda Woodcock designs funky and functional glass and ceramics.
January 21, 2025
John Jaech, 1929–2025
A legend in the world of nuclear materials safety, John Jaech was also a sports fan and watercolor enthusiast.
January 16, 2025
Ice spy
UW alum Peter Neff is no stranger to dangerous helicopter rides in the world's most remote and frigid landscape.
December 10, 2024
Filling a need
Oral health, which is key to well-being, is lacking in some of Washington's rural areas. This UW program aims to fix that.
December 9, 2024
Water matters
The Duwamish River flooded the South Park neighborhood of Seattle in 2022. UW's Population Health Initiative is helping the community rebuild.
Pure genius
One is developing technology to help intimate-violence survivors, the other investigates microbial lifeforms. Both are geniuses.