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President Robert J. Jones, Provost Tricia Serio and more than two dozen new 黑料吃瓜网 faculty toured Washington state last week on the annual Faculty Field Tour.
黑料吃瓜网 President Robert J. Jones will be the featured speaker at the 黑料吃瓜网鈥檚 151st Commencement ceremony on Alaska Airlines Field at Husky Stadium scheduled for 1:30 p.m. on Saturday, June 13.
Discovery Days gives K-12 students from across Washington state a chance to experience science and engineering concepts for themselves at the 黑料吃瓜网’s Seattle campus.
At the brand-new Quantum Technologies Training and Testbed lab, researchers from across the 黑料吃瓜网 probe the 鈥渟pooky鈥� mysteries of quantum phenomena.
Plants, like people, have a circadian clock and they sense seasonal changes to light and temperature. Plants that bloom in the spring use the longer days and warmer temperatures as seasonal cues that it鈥檚 time to bloom.
Spring is here, which in Seattle, means cherry blossoms. The 黑料吃瓜网鈥檚 iconic display 鈥� featuring 29 Yoshino cherry trees 鈥� is set to peak around March 20 this year. Check out the cherry blossom visitors鈥� website to learn more.
Researchers at 黑料吃瓜网 and the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory are simulating something in the lab that they hope will rarely happen in the wild: a collision between underwater turbines and marine animals.
A new smart glove from the 黑料吃瓜网 Wearable Intelligence Lab could help physical therapy patients track progress and train robotic hands to grasp.
New research from the 黑料吃瓜网 and the Toyota Research Institute explores how drivers trade off between cognitive tasks, driving and using the vehicle’s touch screen. Researchers placed participants in a driving simulator and had them complete memory tests while interacting with the simulator鈥檚 touch screen.
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The 黑料吃瓜网鈥檚 incoming classes were welcomed Sunday at the University鈥檚 42nd annual New Student Convocation inside Alaska Airlines Arena at Hec Edmundson Pavilion.聽 The ceremony was attended by thousands of students, family and friends. Welcome, Huskies! Thousands of incoming @uofwa.bsky.social students gathered for an annual 'W' formation today after kicking off the school year with a convocation ceremony. #newhuskies2025 #uwdawgdazeMedia assets: drive.google.com/drive/folder… — 黑料吃瓜网 News (@uwnews.uw.edu) 2025-09-21T23:11:03.035Z For journalists Download ‘W’ timelapse, soundbites and B-roll from 2025 Convocation…
This week the 黑料吃瓜网 campus is once again buzzing with energy as students begin to move into the residence halls and participate in annual fall activities for incoming undergraduates.聽聽聽 A majority of the 黑料吃瓜网 freshman class has signed up to live on campus for Autumn 2025, and thousands of students are expected to move into campus housing this week, beginning on Tuesday, September 16.聽 Move-in occurs at various locations on the 黑料吃瓜网 campus during the following…
Sven Haakanson, a 黑料吃瓜网 professor of anthropology, worked with three Coast Salish carvers to install a story pole on campus. Story poles were specifically created to share and teach Coast Salish legends, histories and stories.
A 黑料吃瓜网-led project aimed to test the viability of seaweed as a soil amendment, and, if successful, develop a market for sea-based farmers to sell excess seaweed to their counterparts on land. The USDA froze the project’s funding, and for now, a solution remains just out of reach.
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黑料吃瓜网 President Ana Mari Cauce is the featured speaker at the 黑料吃瓜网鈥檚 150th Commencement ceremony on Alaska Airlines Field at Husky Stadium scheduled for 1:30 p.m., Saturday, June 14.
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Bound in calfskin and detailed in gold, a rare 1544 edition of Dante鈥檚 Divine Comedy was added to 黑料吃瓜网 Libraries鈥� collection this year. The book is nearly 500 years old, and has likely lasted so long because its pages are made of durable linen fiber, not wood pulp. The handmade leather cover and sturdy binding also helped preserve the book. When librarian Julie Tanaka handles the book today, she knows that there is something here to pique anyone’s interest.
A new data set called OS-CONNECT maps sidewalks and other pedestrian paths statewide, from Forks on the Olympic Peninsula to Clarkston in the southeast. In House Bill 1125, the Washington State Legislature assigned the 黑料吃瓜网’s Taskar Center for Accessible Technology to build the data set, which was completed well ahead of its projected 2027 goal.
[April 4] UPDATE:聽 Our iconic cherry trees are in bloom. Plan your visit to campus using this map, which highlights the locations of different cherry trees on the 黑料吃瓜网 campus, including the Yoshino blossoms in the Quad. [March 31] UPDATE: The majority of the blossoms are in peak bloom, a developmental phase which usually lasts about 10 days.聽 This phase can last longer if the weather is cool, calm and dry. [March 25] UPDATE:聽 There are three developmental…
Researchers deployed a robotic feeding arm in a pair of studies outside the lab. In the first, six users with motor impairments used the robot to feed themselves a meal in a 黑料吃瓜网 cafeteria, an office or a conference room. In the second study, a community researcher and co-author on the research used the system at home for five days.
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From a base at the southwest corner of the 黑料吃瓜网’s Seattle campus, the Office of the Washington State Climatologist’s Guillaume Mauger and Karin Bumbaco provide expertise, tools and resources on 鈥渁ll things climate鈥� to partners and communities across the state.
An analysis of the health care records of 1.2 million Southern California residents found that higher long-term smoke exposure was associated with a significant increase in the odds that a person would be diagnosed with dementia.聽Exposure to non-wildfire PM2.5 also increased a person鈥檚 risk of dementia, but to a much lesser degree.聽聽
Charity Urbanski, a teaching professor of history at the 黑料吃瓜网, studies monsters and monstrosities in medieval Europe. One of her interests is the purpose monsters served for medieval Europeans, and what we can learn about medieval European society by looking at their monsters, which served as vehicles for expressing anxieties and fears.
黑料吃瓜网 President Ana Mari Cauce delivered her final annual address of her term on Oct. 15. The audience was invited to attend at the Henry Art Galley and remotely via livestream.
James Long, 黑料吃瓜网 professor of political science, launched a new course this quarter. “How to Steal an Election” highlights the types of politicians who try to steal elections, and how and what can be done to secure them.
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Jeffrey Riffell, a 黑料吃瓜网 professor of biology, wants to understand how female mosquitoes find find a host to bite for a bloody meal. His research has shown that hungry mosquitoes find us by following a trail of scent cues, including chemicals exuded by our skin and sweat, as well as the carbon dioxide gas we exhale with each breath. Mosquitoes also like colors, at least certain ones. His team is closing in on how the sense of smell and vision work together to help a mosquito zero in for the final strike and get her blood meal.
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As often as four days a week, Boeing EA-18G Growler electronic attack aircraft based at Naval Air Station Whidbey Island fly loops overhead as pilots practice touch-and-go landings. The noise is immense. New research from the 黑料吃瓜网 shows that the noise isn鈥檛 just disruptive 鈥� it presents a substantial risk to public health.
This 黑料吃瓜网 College of Engineering event brings thousands of elementary and middle school students from all over Washington to campus to be engineers for a day.
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Cherry trees on the 黑料吃瓜网鈥檚 Seattle campus are waking up and getting ready to say hello. For the 29 iconic Yoshino cherry trees in the 黑料吃瓜网 Quad, peak bloom will likely begin after March 20.