STEM

March 17, 2025

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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

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Aquarist extraordinaire

Now a supervisor of birds and mammals with the Seattle Aquarium, Aubrey Theiss took an unconventional path to her dream career.

January 30, 2025

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True alchemy

UW Bioengineering grad Amanda Woodcock designs funky and functional glass and ceramics.

January 21, 2025

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John Jaech, 1929–2025

A legend in the world of nuclear materials safety, John Jaech was also a sports fan and watercolor enthusiast.

December 9, 2024

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Pure genius

One is developing technology to help intimate-violence survivors, the other investigates microbial lifeforms. Both are geniuses.

December 6, 2024

"Kind of a crazy idea"

David Baker, the UW's latest Nobel Prize winner, revolutionized protein design.

July 24, 2024

Tech for all, all for tech

Emily Lago Anderson is bridging the tech gap by empowering tomorrow's STEM leaders.

June 10, 2024

Educational opportunities for all

Meet Emily Yim, a trailblazer in education who is shaping futures and bridging gaps in access and exposure.

February 24, 2024

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Clean energy urgency

The UW’s Clean Energy Institute is speeding the development of next-generation technology and supporting the experts who will create it.

October 24, 2023

In pursuit of tech equity

While researching technology, equity and innovation, Ph.D. candidate Jay Cunningham makes time to help steward the University as a UW regent.

September 2, 2023

Astronomical data

A tool developed by the UW’s Institute for Data Intensive Research in Astrophysics & Cosmology will help manage massive amounts of data.

June 9, 2023

Blast off

Watch a video of a recent rocket launch in White Swan, WA with the Washington Space Grant team and Yakama Nation tribal members.

May 29, 2023

Coastal meets celestial

While some universities boast of their land grants, the UW is where you’ll find cutting-edge research and education on sea and space.

May 28, 2023

Seeps from the deep

A recent UW-led study exploring the seafloor about 50 miles off Newport, Oregon, discovered seeps of warm, chemically distinct liquid shooting up.

January 3, 2023

So long, 747

Boeing rolls out the final 747 – once known as the Queen of the Skies – and the end of an era is upon us for a plane designed by a famous alum.

November 27, 2022

Driving innovation

The UW team earned the EcoCAR Collaboration Award at last spring's Mobility Challenge.

Genius at work

The MacArthur Foundation honors Yejin Choi, a professor who teaches human language to computers.

May 29, 2022

Finishing the sequence

UW researchers are contributors to the groundbreaking work of the Human Genome Project.

March 5, 2022

Tech can be tricky

A pilot project will establish a public-interest technology clinic to serve local community organizations and governments.

December 4, 2021

A black Labrador with amber eyes named Jasper lays in the grass with an orange and blue ball in his mouth.

Unleashing dogs’ power

The UW’s Conservation Canines calls on dogs’ noses to find answers to pressing environmental questions.