News
May 3, 2022
Supporting diversity
Meet the 2022 recipients of the Multicultural Alumni Partnership awards.
March 11, 2022
Remembering Desmond Tutu
Twenty years ago, the human rights leader delivered a message of hope to Seattle.
March 5, 2022
50 years of equal rights
In 1972, Washington became one of the earlier states to ratify a gender equity amendment.
March 4, 2022
Show us the Shell House
Efforts to preserve and renovate the historic ASUW Shell House on the Montlake Cut continue full speed ahead.
Native leader joins Regents
As a UW regent, Leonard Forsman plans to help represent Indigenous people.
February 14, 2022
The power of representation
An El Paso native's journey to UW leads to a key position as the White House Deputy Cabinet Secretary — and a piece of political power.
December 4, 2021
Why get a booster?
Marion Pepper of the School of Medicine helps us better understand the latest COVID-19 shot.
The Inn crowd is back
Raise a toast to the historic, quirky joint that has come back from a COVID-19 closure.
License to innovate
The Washington Research Foundation was founded 40 years ago to capture the value of inventions coming out of the UW.
Fighting the infodemic
Twisted facts, fake news and social media spoofs can turn society upside down. One UW team is working to help us through the infodemic.
November 19, 2021
Changing the law
Enoka Herat works with law enforcement leaders and the families of people who have died from police violence to change practices in Washington.
Beacon in the HUB
While Black fraternities and sororities have thrived at the UW, their presence has gone generally unrecognized. Now their crests are on display in the HUB.
Indigenous walking tour
A walking tour of the UW campus highlights sites that are relevant to the Native American experience.
September 11, 2021
Where stars are born
At the UW's Friday Harbor Laboratories, scientists give sunflower sea stars a chance to shine.
September 4, 2021
New chancellors
Sheila Edwards Lange, ’00, ’06, is the new chancellor of the University of Washington Tacoma. Kristin Esterberg has been named chancellor at UW Bothell.
Fred Hutch, SCCA merging
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, UW Medicine, Seattle Cancer Care Alliance and Seattle Children’s are restructuring their relationship,.
Anderson honored
James G. Anderson, '66, will receive the 2021 Dreyfus Prize in the Chemical Sciences.
Jewell on faculty
Former Interior Secretary Sally Jewell, ’78, was appointed to the Edward V. Fritzky Endowed Chair in Leadership for the 2021-2022 school year.