Research

June 4, 2025

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Thinking outside the bot

AI expert Brian Christian explores the tricky dynamics between human behavior and artificial intelligence.

May 12, 2025

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AI bias and benefit

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

March 11, 2025

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Sensing solutions

A traffic sensor in Toppenish could help reduce car accidents at a dangerous highway intersection.

January 16, 2025

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Ice spy

UW alum Peter Neff is no stranger to dangerous helicopter rides in the world's most remote and frigid landscape.

December 9, 2024

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Pure genius

One is developing technology to help intimate-violence survivors, the other investigates microbial lifeforms. Both are geniuses.

December 6, 2024

"Kind of a crazy idea"

David Baker, the UW's latest Nobel Prize winner, revolutionized protein design.

October 22, 2024

Building better forests

Dr. Susan J. Prichard is a research scientist with a passion for forest ecology. She tells us about her work with wildfires.

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.

September 13, 2024

Novel approach

With new support of private equity, CoMotion is helping a UW professor's quest to diagnose Alzheimer's earlier.

September 12, 2024

In tune with babies

UW researchers note that music enhances the neural response to speech in infants. They also discover that families are not talking or singing directly to their children as much as they thought.

September 11, 2024

Learning from disaster

Along with Oregon State, Virginia Tech and the University of Florida, researchers from the UW are studying natural disaster data to better respond to these hazards.

Small town, big dreams

UW's Livable City Year program worked with the city of Snohomish to support their economic development. Next up: Granite Falls and Mukilteo.

June 6, 2024

Remote learning

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

February 24, 2024

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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.

February 23, 2024

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Mix masters

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

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Studying modern slavery

Professor Anita Ramasastry is part of a global commission investigating the rise of forced labor.

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The nature of nature

It’s no surprise that the federal government turned to the UW to head up an assessment of America's lands, waters and wildlife.

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Hope against peril

A team of University of Washington researchers and scientists is helping coastal communities prepare for a tsunami and other associated risks. 

November 25, 2023

1,100 years ago, double earthquake hit Seattle region, researchers prove

Solving a seismic mystery, researchers prove the Northwest was once hit with a double whammy.

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.