News
September 4, 2021
AAPI stories
A website highlights Asian American and Pacific Islander voices from our community.
June 10, 2021
Bridging the distance
UW faculty members used innovative approaches to teaching hands-on courses during the pandemic.
June 3, 2021
Archives to stay
When the federal government announced it would be closing its national archives at Sand Point, a UW community of alumni and faculty sprang into action to halt the plan.
May 11, 2021
Scholarship boost
Sea Mar partnered with MultiCare Health Systems to develop a $100,000 gift to OMA&D and the Office of Equity and Inclusion at UW Tacoma.
Building opportunity
The Black Opportunity Fund addresses the harmful legacies that colonialism, racism, white supremacy and racial capitalism have on Black communities.
May 10, 2021
Diversity takes work
In the recent years, the UW has seen the highest racial and gender diversity among students in its history, “and yet we have fallen short on our faculty diversity efforts."
March 11, 2021
Aiming at COVID-19
A year after it became one of the first academic labs in the U.S. to develop a COVID-19 test, the UW Medicine Virology Lab continues to innovate in response to the pandemic.
Helen Chu honored
University of Washington Medicine professor Dr. Helen Chu, ’12, “Washingtonian of the Year” by the Washington State Leadership Board.
March 9, 2021
Don’t be a spreader
Some advice about the kind of misinformation you may see in the coming months about COVID-19 vaccines and some tools to stop its spread.
Sign of the times
A campus road has been renamed sluʔwiɫ, a word in the Lushootseed language that loosely translates to “Little Canoe Channel.”
March 8, 2021
The greater Gould
Gould Hall’s original designers created a building that could be modified to serve new generations of students and faculty in the design disciplines.
March 4, 2021
Stories of home
The UW Alumni Association recently invited a group of Native storytellers for a virtual event to discuss the meaning of sense of place.
December 16, 2020
Nobel laureate’s UW ties
Harvey J. Alter, a UW resident in internal medicine from 1964-65, has received a Nobel Prize for his contributions to the discovery of the hepatitis C virus.
The other pandemic: racism
Members of the UW community join to fight “white supremacy as a lethal public health issue.”
10 feel-good stories
In the spirit of Swedish doctor Hans Rosling, we’ve assembled a sampling of good news findings and events with connections to the UW.
Whale on display
The skeleton of a 39-foot-long Baird’s beaked whale is now on permanent display in the Burke Museum lobby.
December 11, 2020
Sign of the times
A campus road has been renamed sluʔwiɫ, a word in the Lushootseed language that loosely translates to “Little Canoe Channel.”
September 21, 2020
Celebrating a milestone
At the end of June, the University closed the books on a historic fundraising campaign, in which more than half a million donors gave a combined $6.3 billion.
Racing a pandemic
Thanks to years of foresight, funding and preparation, two UW labs have been on the forefront of COVID-19 testing.