Students
June 5, 2018
Leading roles
All four of the 2017-18 UW student body presidents were people of color, and each of them saw race, equity and social justice as central to their position.
Three-minute thesis
Five students stood out in this year’s Three-Minute Thesis competition, an annual event sponsored by the Graduate School.
April 5, 2018
International problem solvers
Outside of the classroom, UW engineering students solve problems around the world.
November 15, 2017
Students of nature
The Doris Duke Charitable Foundation is changing the faces—and future—of conservation.
October 19, 2017
Painting labor
Arely Morales, '17, took inspiration from Latino artists and a poet in developing her style.
September 1, 2015
Band life
Senior physics major Carlo Torrella joined the UW’s 240-member marching band in 2011. It has been one of the most demanding experiences of his life. But “I’m so glad I did it,” he says.
June 1, 2015
Give Me 5: Dan Kingma
Despite scholarship offers from other schools, Dan Kingma was certain that he was a Husky, even if that meant joining the program as a walk-on.
June 1, 2012
Green light
More than 40 UW students from a variety of disciplines are building a car for the future as part of the EcoCAR 2 competition.
Brand-new Lander
The new Lander Hall will be a leading-edge residence, part of the UW’s effort to transform west campus into a vibrant community where students feel at home.
March 1, 2012
Two for the Rhodes
Two UW seniors were selected in November to receive Rhodes Scholarships, making the UW the only American public university with more than one Rhodes Scholar for 2012.
September 1, 2011
Higher aid, tuition
In July, the UW Board of Regents voted to raise tuition 20 percent and to increase the amount of aid available to low- and middle-income families by 45 percent, a dollar increase of $12 million.
June 1, 2011
Pulling for Paul
While Paul Dann, ’83, of Richland, received cancer treatment at the UW Medical Center, his daughter Claire got busy and organized a Relay for Life team she named “Paul’s Pals.”
December 1, 2010
'What Work Is'
“What Work Is” was featured in the 2010 UW Common Book, You Are Never Where You Are. Since 2006 the UW has chosen one book for all freshmen to read.
June 1, 2010
Innovative idealism
Student teams from across the University of Washington and other state schools heralded their inventions of clean, green technologies at the second annual UW Environmental Innovation Challenge.
Pursuit of potential
Once a preppy hustler, a cocaine dealer, a drug addict, and a student in Japan, Max Hunter is now a UW Ph.D. student and has begun telling his story.
December 1, 2008
Students to the rescue
A charitable group set up by two UW students after the May 12 earthquake in China’s Sichuan Province has been as no-nonsense as its name, raising $65,000 for children in the disaster zone and winning a prestigious award
December 1, 2007
Soul searchers
If you kept changing your major and rethinking your career options while you were a UW student, you had lots of company, according to the first truly comprehensive study of undergraduate education in the nation—UW SOUL.
September 1, 2007
First freshman
Surviving your first year of college is always an experience — especially if you are in the first freshman class ever admitted to your campus.
Commendations flow
Shortly before 1 a.m. on March 15, 2006, Edward Marsette woke to a loud crash outside his Auburn home. Within minutes, he was pulling people from a fiery, overturned car.
June 1, 2007
$100,000 for memorial
Students, alumni and friends of the UW have raised more than $100,000 for a memorial to former UW students who have received the Medal of Honor, ASUW President Cullen White announced April 9.
March 1, 2007
Memorial moves ahead
Last April the Student Senate passed a resolution urging the creation of a Medal of Honor memorial and now ASUW leaders are launching a $100,000 fund drive to make it happen.
Climbing fast
She’s only 19 years old, but Nodira Khoussainova already has her bachelor’s degree from the University of Auckland in New Zealand and is a year into the Ph.D. program in computer science and engineering at the UW. Even though her family comes from Uzbekistan and now lives in New Zealand, it has additional ties to...
June 1, 2006
Student regent
What, exactly, is a student doing on the UW's highest governing board? Lots, as it turns out.
September 1, 2005
Common ground
The determination of two exceptional students brings a monument to diversity to the UW campus.
Student leader
A graduate of Tacoma’s Lincoln High School, Anthony Rose came to the UW in 2001. He is the current president of the Black Student Union, a former member of the Higher Education Coordinating Board and a volunteer helping prepare students for college.
March 1, 2004
One for the books
In second grade they told her that she read too much, but today Allyssa Lamb is one of only 32 U.S. students to win a Rhodes Scholarship to Oxford.
March 1, 2003
Faces of the millennium
Over the last three years, the University of Washington has been able to attract 90 Gates Millennium Scholars. Here are the stories of five recipients.
September 1, 2002
Top grad
Roy Chan, ‘02, a comparative literature/Russian language and literature major earned a 3.98 GPA in his four years at the UW. For his academic achievements, he was named the 2002 President’s Medalist.
Admissions upheld
U.S. District Judge Thomas Zilly ruled that the University of Washington School of Law did not break any laws in a highly publicized “reverse discrimination” lawsuit.
Scholarship impact
Scholarship support is crucial to minority student recruitment and retention—on average, only 38 percent of underrepresented minority students who are not offered some form of scholarship or grant support enroll at the University of Washington.
September 1, 2001
Row show
While most Huskies take them for granted, our Greek Row houses are architectural gems that some day might comprise a historic district.