People

May 12, 2025

AI bias and benefit

Graduate student Kate Glazko explores generative technology and its impact on people with disabilities.


May 9, 2025

Light the way

Shanise Kemp combined her experience in supply chain logistics with her husband's newfound love for candles into her own small business.


May 8, 2025

10 years of belonging

As wǝɫǝbʔaltxʷ Intellectual House marks its first decade as a cultural home for the Indigenous students at the UW and as a resource for the Native community, the longhouse-style center prepares for Phase 2—adding dedicated spaces, expanded services and deeper support for Native student success.


The kuleana of cloth

Artist Malia Peoples uses kapa clothmaking to reconnect with her heritage and share Hawaiian culture in the Pacific Northwest.


An outspoken approach

UW Tacoma professor Carolyn West, a leading authority on relationship violence, is savvy about discussing domestic violence in her media appearances.


May 5, 2025

Hall of a guy

Dave Torrell's volunteer duties have included running a museum, acting as Don James and collecting one-of-a-kind memorabilia.


May 2, 2025

Husky fever

David Torrell of Husky Fever Hall of Fame legend shares some of his fondest memories at the UW.


April 30, 2025

Lettuce [eaters] rejoice

UW Lettuce Eating Club’s 2025 competition was entertaining, stomach-filling, and inspiring all at once for an organization that takes climate justice very seriously.


April 22, 2025

Pamela Mitchell

Golden grad

Pamela Mitchell, who taught at the UW for half a century, earned the 2025 Golden Graduate Distinguished Alumna Award for her contributions to the UW and her innovative work in patient care.


March 25, 2025

Getting toasted

Jaafar Altameemi and Murat Akyüz created TOASTED. Bagels & Coffee as a home away from home.


March 19, 2025

A woman in a striped shirt and protective gear steadies a piece of wood in a workshop

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 18, 2025

No kissing!

Smooching on the UW campus was outlawed back in 1929 when then-UW President Matthew Lyle Spencer saw the display of affection as an affront to the morals of the time.


David Bonderman, 1942–2024

David Bonderman’s all-expenses-paid travel fellowships enable UW students to broaden their cultural horizons.


March 17, 2025

A woman in a brown corduroy jacket smiles on the steps of Suzzallo Library

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.


A woman in a polka dot blouse and black cardigan folds her arms while chatting with a student in a baggy blue sweatshirt.

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.


Spring media

Books and podcasts to brighten your spring. Because reading is what? Fundamental.


March 12, 2025

A collage of photographs from the year 1900, featuring six white men, two women, one Black man and one Japanese man.

UW Law turns 125

Hugh Spitzer, a retired law professor from the UW School of Law, reflects on 125 years of the law school's commitment to diversity.


March 11, 2025

Dr. Robert Jones smiles and crosses his arms in an office next to Tricia Serio who folds her hands and looks on

The next top Dawg

Dr. Robert Jones is "beyond excited" to join the UW as the 34th president in the school's 164-year history.


Illustration of a doctor wearing a mask and studying diseases

Facing down COVID-19

The UW's contributions to testing, vaccinations and research have been groundbreaking over the past five years.


Colorful line drawing of people climbing steps to reach a large W

The power of public universities

While some Americans have lost confidence in higher education, Provost Tricia Serio believes a Husky education is accessible and valuable.