UW Bothell

March 18, 2025

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 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.


June 10, 2024

Her legacy lives on

Marleigh Lang remembers her late daughter Natalie, whose generosity and inspirational story live on through her namesake scholarship.


April 4, 2024

Buddhist Bug

UW Bothell Senior Artist-in-Residence Anida Yoeu Ali donned her orange worm-like costume at a recent Seattle Asian Art Museum performance.


February 23, 2024

A museum visitor brings her fact close to Anida Ali, who is wearing a giant orange tube that winds around the room

Art in action

UW Senior Artist-in-Residence Anida Yoeu Ali opens a solo show at Seattle Asian Art Museum.


January 18, 2024

Artist Anida Ali stands in front of a picture of herself wearing a sparkly red chador.

Out of the ordinary

UW Artist-in-Residence Anida Yoeu Ali opens her show at the Seattle Asian Art Museum, which runs through July 7.


September 1, 2023

Community classroom

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


May 29, 2023

Teachers of the year

From inspiration to impact, this year’s Distinguished Teaching Award recipients mentor and nurture students from all disciplines.


September 4, 2021

New chancellors

Sheila Edwards Lange, ’00, ’06, is the new chancellor of the University of Washington Tacoma. Kristin Esterberg has been named chancellor at UW Bothell.


July 22, 2021

A fresh lens on QTPOC life

Through feature films, groundbreaking documentaries and shorts, a UW librarian creates a canon of meaningful representation in American cinema.


June 21, 2021

Professors nonpareil

One year into remote learning, these seven distinguished scholars kept class as fresh and relevant as ever. Find a seat and meet your 2021 Distinguished Teachers of the Year.


April 17, 2021

Frontline photographer

Photographer David Ryder, ’06, ’11, was recently recognized as UW Bothell's Alumni of the Year recipient.


March 1, 2019

The identity solution

PilotED, an elementary school in Indianapolis, believes identity and civic engagement could transform the educational landscape, especially for students of color.


March 2, 2017

Newsprint

Huskies above the fold: Forbes 30 Under 30, White House awards, predicting sickness.


December 29, 2016

Michael Lewis Goldberg UW Bothell

Make it better

Cherishing the lessons of UW Bothell's Michael Lewis Goldberg (1959-2016).


December 16, 2016

Self-driving trike

Researchers at UW Bothell are working on a self-driving tricycle.


June 1, 2015

Top teachers

They walk into a classroom that is filled with a sea of anxious faces. Expectations run high. They take a deep breath and off they go—the process of molding students into scholars is what teachers do everyday. With the greatest of ease? Hardly. Only some have the chops to rise above the rest. Introducing this year’s best of the best.


December 1, 2014

Curriculum inventor

As Carrie Tzou wondered how biology—her major—could be more engaging, she decided to see how she could design ways to improve teaching. Today, it is her career focus.


June 1, 2010

Top-notch teachers

The seven recipients of the Distinguished Teaching Award and one recipient of the Marsha L. Landolt Distinguished Graduate Mentor Award share the ability to inspire students to incredible heights.


June 1, 2009

Teachers of the year, 2009

The seven recipients of this year’s Distinguished Teaching Awards represent the broadest range of disciplines, from English to maxillofacial surgery. But they all have one thing in common: the ability to hold their students spellbound.


September 1, 2008

Teachers of the year, 2008

The seven winners of the UW’s Distinguished Teaching Award talk about what happens in their celebrated classrooms.


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.


Statistical advantage

The skills UW Bothell Professor Clark Olson honed during his five years at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory are the same ones he has used to conquer the stats-heavy world of fantasy sports.


June 1, 2007

Extra credit

A great university has great teachers. This year, the UW honors seven instructors from three campuses who have touched the lives of thousands.


December 1, 2005

$33 billion risk

A UW Bothell business professor says that the Puget Sound region could suffer $33 billion in property damage and economic losses following a magnitude 6.7 earthquake along the Seattle Fault.


June 1, 2005

Top Dawgs

More than 175 faculty have been given a UW Distinguished Teaching Award since 1970, and this year seven more from Seattle, Bothell and Tacoma join their ranks. In addition, the UW salutes 12 other professors, graduate students and staff members for their public service and teaching excellence.


March 1, 2005

Growing pains

The state needs 33,000 more spaces for college students by 2009. To help solve the problem, the UW must transform its campuses in Tacoma and Bothell.


June 1, 2004

Class of distinction

Since 1970, the University of Washington has honored its best teachers for striving to bring knowledge to the next generation.


March 1, 2004

Green acres

The early settlers used it for log flume and then turned it into a dairy farm. Now UW Bothell is tackling the biggest wetlands restoration project in our region.


June 1, 2003

Gallery of distinction

Since 1970, the University of Washington has honored its best teachers for striving to bring knowledge to the next generation. This year the UW has given its Distinguished Teaching Award to seven faculty on three campuses. In addition, the UW is honoring TAs, public servants and staff.


September 1, 2000

A place to call home

Defying its critics, UW Bothell finally has a permanent campus with a stunning design in a unique setting.


March 1, 1998

Smog travels east

A new UW study indicates that about 10 percent of the ozone and other pollutants that hang over West Coast cities comes from the industrialized nations of East Asia.


December 1, 1997

Record enrollment

Records fell at all three UW campuses this fall, as Seattle’s new freshman class was the largest ever, and both Bothell and Tacoma reached the highest enrollments in their seven-year history.


December 1, 1994

Branch plans

Permanent homes for the UW's two branch campuses came closer to reality, as plans for UW­ Tacoma cleared an important landmarks panel.


June 1, 1994

UW spared cuts

Lawmakers spared the University of Washington from budget cuts in the session that concluded in March 1994.


December 1, 1991

Branch enrollment up

University of Washington branch campuses in Tacoma and Bothell attracted scores of new students as they began their second year of classes Sept. 30.


December 1, 1990

Branches approved

Two University of Washington branch campuses took giant steps this fall as classes opened in temporary quarters and the UW Board of Regents recommended permanent sites.


September 1, 1990

Branches to open

The University of Washington branch campuses in Tacoma and the Bothell/Woodinville area were set to open their classroom doors.


June 1, 1990

Branch sites narrowed

The UW Board of Regents narrowed the possibilities to three each for campuses planned for the Tacoma and the Bothell/Woodinville areas.


March 1, 1990

Temporary branches

The Higher Education Coordinating Board approved proposed lease space for temporary facilities for University of Washington branch campuses


September 1, 1989

UW to branch out

Institutions in Tacoma and the Bothell-Woodinville will offer students places to complete their last two years of college and, in future years, an applied master's degree.