June 20, 2018

Top of the game

Not many financial advisors make it onto the Forbes' list of America’s Top Wealth Advisors. But Foster School of Business and UW Law School graduate Stephen Hollomon did.


James bronzed

The new Don James statue outside Husky Stadium will stop you dead in your tracks.


June 6, 2018

Hot plates!

Help us catch the Cougs by adding purple pride to your license plate—and raise money for students along the way.


The story of Thomas Peter Lantos

Lantos, the first and only Holocaust survivor ever elected to Congress, was perhaps the unlikeliest UW graduate of them all.


President's Letter: June 2018

The great power of our University and its public mission is that it touches every person in Washington, through education, research and service.


June 5, 2018

Coffee with a twist of tech

Paul Tupper, ’14, started Onda Origins, a Seattle-based coffee company with a technological spin, to further his environmental agenda.


Three-minute thesis

Five students stood out in this year’s Three-Minute Thesis competition, an annual event sponsored by the Graduate School.


Harold Booker, 1933-2018

The 1955 alumnus spent his life fighting discrimination.


Herb Bridge, 1925-2018

The UW's first Distinguished Alumni Veteran Award honoree was a success in business after his Navy tour.


Dorothy Simpson, 1924-2018

She teamed with her husband to make her mark at the UW through generosity and service.


June 4, 2018

Give Me 5: Shannon Drayer

A trumpet player in the Husky Marching Band during the late ’80s, she gave acting a try before becoming a sports radio journalist for ESPN 710.


No easy tusk

Marine biologist Kristin Laidre is living her dream of studying narwhals, the mysterious 2,000-pound mammals that are notoriously tricky to find.


Drug price isn't right

There’s a new blockbuster drug that could save the lives of thousands of people with type 2 diabetes in the U.S.


June 2, 2018

A special time of year

This summer's Special Olympic Games likely will be the most notable sporting event at the UW and the Puget Sound region as a whole since the 1990 Goodwill Games.