Solutions
March 13, 2018
New point of view
Lisa Zurk, ’95, will be the first woman to lead the Applied Physics Laboratory.
March 6, 2018
Cyber safe
Stefan Savage, ’02, earned a MacArthur "genius" grant for his work on cyber security.
March 5, 2018
Stop the bleed
It only takes a few minutes to bleed to death, but bystanders with a little knowledge can save lives.
March 4, 2018
The man who made us look
Psychology professor Anthony Greenwald developed the Implicit Association Test, a rapid-fire survey that reveals the biases that lurk inside us.
January 9, 2018
Rural rescue
Connecting UW Medicine research to primary care clinics around the region.
December 28, 2017
Forging new links
A new type of fire-resistant wood reduces atmospheric carbon and can be made of damaged trees. Could it revive depressed economies in Washington’s rural timber communities?
December 15, 2017
The puzzle of aging
Building on decades of research and outreach, UW experts are piecing together new ways to live longer and better.
December 8, 2017
Engineering on the brain
Doctors, engineers and other experts work together at the UW Center for Sensorimotor Neural Engineering.
December 7, 2017
The opioid boom
The prevailing practice for treating addiction to painkillers led to the worst man-made epidemic in modern medical history.
September 13, 2017
Transplants on the double
UW Medicine’s innovation could yield better results for kidney patients.
June 27, 2017
Welcome back, Paul Allen
Before he funded UW's computer science labs, Paul Allen got kicked out of them.
June 26, 2017
Predict and prevent
The UW has partnered with Microsoft and the city of Bellevue to curb traffic accidents with machine learning.
June 15, 2017
'If we don't, who will?'
A family eager to help their son has helped make the UW a leader in facing down an insidious disease.
June 12, 2017
Legal loop
Fees and fines are the punishment that keeps on giving in the criminal justice system.
May 25, 2017
Micro-damaging
Overt racism has long been linked to health disparities, but what about subtle slights?
March 24, 2017
Why do people give to charity?
Why do we give to charitable organizations and causes? Our motivations for philanthropic giving depend on how we feel we’re faring compared to others.