Students

November 26, 2024

A taste of the UW

The program gives high school students an idea of what it looks like to attend the UW, especially if they don't have family experience to lean on.


November 1, 2024

MAP Scholars

UW's Multicultural Alumni Partnership awards scholarships to five promising students.


Cultivating community

The UW's Native Garden was created to "honor, acknowledge and make space for the traditional peoples" who once built longhouses and a fishing weir in the area.


September 18, 2024

Turning the tide

A UW mentorship program created in partnership with Black in Marine Science and The Nature Conservancy expands access to marine biology for underrepresented communities.


June 7, 2024

Moll on a roll

Olympia's Hana Moll earns a track title, as does Luke Houser of Woodinville.


June 6, 2024

Remote learning

UW field biologists flock to Tetiaroa, a bird lover's dream.


June 3, 2024

Lettuce impress you

Introducing the crunchiest registered student organization you've ever heard of.


May 31, 2024

Homing in on smart solutions

Student housing is—and always has been—a hot topic for UW students and leaders. Smart solutions are in the works.


May 14, 2024

2023 MAP Scholars

UW's MAP proudly presents the five outstanding student recipients of their 2023 MAP awards.


February 24, 2024

A group of four students harvest vegetables in a verdant green field

Living laboratory

Each year, some 1,200 to 1,500 Huskies find their way to the UW Farm through classes, service-learning programs, research projects and clubs.


A man with a beard stares with determination in front of laboratory equipment

Clean energy urgency

The UW’s Clean Energy Institute is speeding the development of next-generation technology and supporting the experts who will create it.


A woman in a UW jacket rides a white horse in a covered barn

Serious horsing around

Students from the big city saddle up for fun on the UW Equestrian Team.


February 23, 2024

A student wearing a hard hat and safety goggles smiles

Mix masters

At the Concrete Materials Lab, UW students are testing ways to bring concrete into a sustainable future.


November 26, 2023

A culture of learning

A new cohort of Indigenous students in the College of Education is ushering in an early-learning program that puts language and culture first.


Hometown health care

Raised on a dairy farm, Wyatt Bowles dreamed of becoming a hometown doctor. Thanks to scholarship support at the UW, that dream can come true.


November 25, 2023

Show stopper

A few thousand Husky faithful turned out for ESPN’s College GameDay before the showdown between Pac-12 football powerhouses UW and Oregon.


November 24, 2023

Rousing research

UW leaders thought having students do research would prepare them to take on the future. It became a national model.


October 24, 2023

Canoe Journey

Hosted by the Muckleshoot Tribe, this year's Tribal Canoe Journey welcomed members of the Shell House Canoe Family, č̓away̓altxʷ ʔiišəd.


A group of young people sits and stands outside a campus building on a sunny day.

Reaching all learners

The Disabilities, Opportunities, Internet-working and Technology Center (DO-IT for short) provides support, advocacy and mentoring to students with disabilities.


In pursuit of tech equity

While researching technology, equity and innovation, Ph.D. candidate Jay Cunningham makes time to help steward the University as a UW regent.


September 1, 2023

Smart students, clever tech

Information from fitness trackers and smartphones helps Anind Dey's team learn about student success.


Community classroom

UW Bothell public health students gained a new understanding of rural health care in the developing world.


June 9, 2023

Blast off

Watch a video of a recent rocket launch in White Swan, WA with the Washington Space Grant team and Yakama Nation tribal members.


June 4, 2023

From the outside in

Mentorship, scholarship and compassion made Teresa Dennerlein’s journey to law school possible after an isolated childhood.


Bragging rites

Learn who’s behind those purple, white and gold slogans every rowing season on the Montlake Cut.


May 28, 2023

Will Parnassus return?

Students returning to campus after winter break this year found the doors to historic Parnassus closed indefinitely.


May 5, 2023

MAP Awardees 2022

The Multicultural Alumni Partnership announced its support of five promising scholars at the UW.


April 21, 2023

Better hustle

Over the past two years, MFA candidate Abdiel Jacobsen has brought their love of hustle to the UW.


A source of support

The Instructional Center helps more than 2,000 students a year succeed, even in their most challenging classes. More could use its resources.


February 26, 2023

Plant power

Doctoral student Natalia Guayazán Palacios works to understand how plants and microorganisms coexist.


Liftoff

When Raymond Haug got out of prison, he was determined to end the cycle of crime and addiction. With the help of scholarships, he has transformed his life.


February 25, 2023

Call of the wild

Samantha Zwicker works to rehabilitate and reintroduce wildlife in the Amazon rainforest.


January 24, 2023

Deep mud, both feet

UW student veterans and Vietnam veterans travel to Vietnam to experience the duality of war and find the path to peace.


November 27, 2022

Driving innovation

The UW team earned the EcoCAR Collaboration Award at last spring's Mobility Challenge.


She’s fly

An 18-year-old UW biology major is a legend in the world of fly casting.


November 26, 2022

Behind the data

When doctoral student Horacio Chacón Torrico looks at public-health data, he sees the ‘forgotten’ people he wants to help.


November 3, 2022

At home on campus

Studies show that students who feel a sense of belonging are more likely to thrive in college and experience better personal wellbeing.


A name for themselves

Vern Harner led the effort to change University policy for names on diplomas. Now, trans students' diplomas can reflect their chosen names.


September 20, 2022

A body in motion


Dynamic times, dynamic giving

Through the UW Fund and other unrestricted philanthropy, donors to the UW can make an immediate impact where it's needed most.


September 4, 2022

UW’s Brotherhood Initiative builds a community of success for men of color

As the UW’s Brotherhood Initiative grows—and welcomes a counterpart Sisterhood Initiative—students like senior Noah Stanigar continue to soar.


September 3, 2022

Ancient voices

Grace Funsten, ’17, ’22, studied ancient epitaphs in Rome as part of a select group of classics scholars.


May 29, 2022

Chilling out

For most people, camping season starts in early summer. For a few hardy UW students, it started in March.


May 16, 2022

Why we love the ECC

As the ECC celebrates 50 years of creating a space for diversity and inclusion, alumni share fond memories of the space.


May 4, 2022

Beloved communities

College of Built Environments students help historically Black churches survive gentrification.


March 5, 2022

Dinosaur dreams

Zeke Augustine, ’23, has sifted through soil for microscopic fossils and helped dig up a Triceratops. The Burke Museum has been at the heart of it all.


Fungi friendly

The Northwest is the perfect place for a mushroom enthusiast; one digs into the Burke Museum’s collection.


March 2, 2022

Where our voices are heard

Mustapha Samateh, president of the ASUW, reflects on his journey from Gambia to the UW.


December 4, 2021

Down The Ave game box on a table with game cards scattered around it

UW in the cards

‘Down the Ave,’ a card game developed by business students, is full of UW and Seattle references.


Dancer Abdiel Jacobsen poses wearing dark blue pants, a light blue tank top and a pink cardigan.

Stepping up

Dance students and faculty once again get a chance to strut their stuff.


Electrofishing

Students wade into Issaquah Creek to quantify the population and distribution of different fish species.


A smiling woman, wearing a black shirt and red patterned skirt, crosses her arms and looks off into the distance.

The art of curiosity

As she curates an exhibit at the Jacob Lawrence Gallery, doctoral student Brittney Frantece examines art through a critical lens.


Jamar Beaver stands at a construction site, wearing a construction shirt and hat with safety goggles.

Legal relief

Longtime prisoners who received life and long sentences as minors benefit from a UW program that sends students and lawyers to help.


November 19, 2021

A student sits at home at a corner desk using a laptop

The rise of Gen Z

The most diverse generation in American history, they are engaged, informed, and not content with the status quo.


A young man gives a speech to a group of formally dressed people in an outdoor plaza

Indigenous walking tour

A walking tour of the UW campus highlights sites that are relevant to the Native American experience.


June 10, 2021

Learning the business

At the Foster School, Nicole Bryant, ’21, is getting a real-world business education and helping a women-owned startup.


May 11, 2021

Building opportunity

The Black Opportunity Fund addresses the harmful legacies that colonialism, racism, white supremacy and racial capitalism have on Black communities.


MAP award recipients

This year’s promising scholars range from early undergraduates who are still zeroing in on a major to those pursuing graduate and professional degrees.


Building brotherhood

Last June, 17 students from the first Brotherhood Initiative cohort graduated, and now three more classes of young men are following in their footsteps.


The adventure gap

Money isn’t the only challenge. Racist and classist gatekeeping of hiking spaces also impedes the ability to access the outdoors.


March 11, 2021

Bracing artistry

Residents in the School of Dentistry’s orthodontics program crafted wire sculptures using the materials of their profession.


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.


December 16, 2020

The other pandemic: racism

Members of the UW community join to fight “white supremacy as a lethal public health issue.”


December 10, 2020

Grade A performer

Liberty Bracken is a big reason the Husky football team earned an NCAA-record academic score.


December 7, 2020

Painting a new picture

LeShawn Gamble uses art as a tool to write a new narrative.


Building a future

After holding down a job at Mod Pizza, Amanda Henritze sees bigger things in her future in architecture.


Seeking change

Her experience in the criminal justice system drives Michelle Brownlee toward her goal of working in government.


Future in the law

After her experience in prison, Ginny Burton has her sights set on becoming an attorney.


September 16, 2020

Algae's many faces

To most of us, algae is the green squishy stuff that occasionally “blooms.” But a UW neuroscience doctoral student found that algae has a creative side.


June 24, 2020

Students step up

Students from across the university have volunteered to assist in a variety of support efforts.


June 20, 2020

New reality for students

A graduating student reflects on the coronavirus outbreak that disrupted the last half of her senior year. 


June 10, 2020

The ultimate puzzle

Doctoral student Emily Rabe loves puzzles. Now she's working on one with high stakes—one that could have a significant impact on our planet’s health.


16 years of inclusion

After 16 years of inclusion, UW’s Q Center is just getting started.


March 10, 2020

Off and running

Darhian Mills didn't always love running, but she eventually ran the 400-meter hurdles faster than any woman in UW history.


September 2, 2019

Kasia Omilian with a football

Ahead of the herd

Kasia Omilian wants to become the first woman general manager in the National Football League.


June 13, 2019

Q Center turns 15

The Q Center continues to evolve and grow. It now serves 500 visitors per month.


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, 2014

Eyewitness to devastation

Lauren Pongan, a graduate student in Southeast Asia Studies, traveled to Tanauan, Leyte, last December, not long after Typhoon Yolanda devastated portions of the Philippines.


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

At age 19, 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.


June 1, 2006

Student regent

What, exactly, is a student doing on the UW's highest governing board? Lots, as it turns out.