In 2019, the ϳԹ was mentioned in 4,143 news articles around the world. Among those, ϳԹ experts were quoted 2,290 times: 1,185 in national or international outlets and 1,105 in regional and local outlets.


In 2019, the ϳԹ was mentioned in 4,143 news articles around the world. Among those, ϳԹ experts were quoted 2,290 times: 1,185 in national or international outlets and 1,105 in regional and local outlets.

As 2019 draws to a close, we present highlights from video stories produced by the ϳԹ News team — selections from architecture to zoology, and everything in between

An Antarctic field campaign last winter led by the U.S. and Australia has successfully extracted some of the largest samples of air dating from the 1870s until today. Researchers will use the samples to look for changes in the molecules that scrub the atmosphere of methane and other gases.

After years of preparation, a tiny satellite built by ϳԹ students is scheduled to launch early Saturday, Nov. 2, from a NASA flight facility in Virginia. The launch will be broadcast live on NASA TV.

A team led by the ϳԹ and Stanford University has discovered clues in the environment that help identify transmission hotspots for schistosomiasis, a parasitic disease that is second only to malaria in its global health impact.

This video features Rod Crawford, the curator of arachnids at the ϳԹ’s Burke Museum. He has spent decades studying spiders and says there are many common myths about spiders that he is regularly asked about.

ϳԹ President Ana Mari Cauce delivered her annual address to the community Oct. 15 at wǝɫǝbʔaltxʷ – Intellectual House on the ϳԹ campus.

Sparked by a grant from the ϳԹ Population Health Initiative, the ϳԹ’s Center for One Health Research has created a series of pop-up galleries featuring autobiographical photographs made by people experiencing homelessness with their animal companions. The first gallery was Oct. 4 in ϳԹ’s Red Square. Other pop-up gallery events are 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Monday, Oct. 7, at Occidental Square in Seattle’s Pioneer Square district; Oct. 10 in Seattle’s Cal Anderson Park; and Oct. 13 in the Ballard Commons Park. The…

Convocation welcomes the entering class and officially marks the beginning of the academic year. ϳԹ classes begin Sept. 25. More than 6,000 people were expected to attend this year’s event.

The ϳԹ welcomed nearly 10,000 students during Husky move-in days Sept. 18-20.

More than 99 percent of wildfires in the last 40 years have been east of the Cascade Crest. But evidence that suggests Western Washington also has a history of large wildfires, each burning hundreds of thousands of acres. We might not be familiar with them, because most happened centuries ago.

Researchers at the ϳԹ have used machine learning to develop a new system that can monitor factory and warehouse workers and tell them how ergonomic their jobs are in real time.

A robotics challenge July 20th at the ϳԹ featured twenty-eight teams of middle and high schoolers from Forks to Walla Walla and from Bellingham to Olympia. The event marked a half-century since the Apollo 11 mission landed on the moon and two U.S. astronauts, Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin, walked its surface.

The Burke Museum at the ϳԹ has North America’s largest fish collection that includes a number of sharks, including many species that live in Pacific Northwest waters.

In honor of Shark Awareness Day on July 14, ϳԹ News sat down with Katherine Maslenikov, manager of the ϳԹ Fish Collection, to learn about sharks in the Pacific Northwest and other fun facts about sharks.

Research shows that LGBTQ older adults are at higher risk for social isolation. To that end, ϳԹ social work professor Karen Fredriksen Goldsen helped establish an LGBTQ senior center in Seattle.

Jacqueline Padilla-Gamiño, an assistant professor in the ϳԹ School of Aquatic and Fishery Sciences, spent up to eight hours at a time in the cramped quarters of a submersible watercraft, studying the largest known coral reef in the mesophotic zone, located in the Hawaiian Archipelago.

More than 8,000 graduates attended the ϳԹ’s 144th commencement ceremonies on Saturday.

The annual thesis exhibition by graduating art and design students with the ϳԹ School of Art + Art History + Design brings together the dreamy and the practical to cohabit at the Henry Art Gallery. This year’s exhibit features the work of 10 artists and 11 designers, and will be at the Henry through June 23.

The Husky Marching Band returned to central Washington on Sunday to say thank you to the Grant County community after a bus crash there last Thanksgiving.

Vehicle residents are a significant proportion of Seattle’s unsheltered population. The ϳԹ’s Graham Pruss, a doctoral candidate in anthropology, has studied vehicle residency for a decade and speaks about the challenges and solutions facing this community.

ϳԹ researchers have developed a novel solution to change the feeling of impact when one thing hits another. It has potential for use in spacecraft, cars and beyond — inspired by origami.

Engineering Discovery Days is a yearly event that invites Washington state fourth- through eighth-graders to have fun leaning about STEM with the College of Engineering.

The ϳԹ celebrated the opening of an esports center with a ribbon cutting ceremony April 18.

ϳԹ scientists are sending a kidney-on-a-chip experiment into space. At an altitude of 250 miles, astronauts will help study how reduced gravity in space affects kidney physiology.

A team of ϳԹ students hopes to make it possible to accurately predict peak bloom timing for the iconic Quad cherry trees.

The first day of spring seems especially significant this year — record warm temperatures in the Northwest are marking the change of seasons. But our blooms may be a couple weeks behind schedule after February’s snow and cold weather, according to Ray Larson, curator at ϳԹ Botanic Gardens.

ϳԹ researchers have created a novel system that can measure platelet function within two minutes and can help doctors determine which trauma patients might need a blood transfusion upon being admitted to a hospital.

Amarilys Ríos is a professional percussionist, singer and dancer from San Juan, Puerto Rico. In this video she gives an introduction to “bomba,” an Afro-Puerto Rican music and dance tradition in which dancers lead the drummer to sound out their improvised movements. “Bomba is a way of expression and communication” with key ingredients, explains Ríos. There are bomba drums with a lead drummer, singer, dancer and chorus. “Each one is as important as the other,” she said, and all…

The ϳԹ today marked the official opening of the new Bill & Melinda Gates Center for Computer Science & Engineering on its Seattle campus. The building doubles the space available to ϳԹ’s Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering to enable a new wave of computing innovation and to educate more of Washington’s students for 21st century careers that will help shape the future of technology.

The iconic cherry trees in the ϳԹ’s Quad will likely reach peak bloom the third week of March, right in line with most years.

This video takes a look at the ϳԹ’s revenue and operating budget from the 2018-2019 academic year. We explain where the money comes from and how it is spent.

Nick Bond, Washington’s state climatologist, comments on the unusual weather in Western Washington.

A ϳԹ-led team has found that early spring rainfall warms up a thawing permafrost bog in Alaska and promotes the growth of plants and methane-producing microbes.

A center housed at the ϳԹ offers a new way for scientists to get their hands on state-of-the-art equipment to study the effects of natural disasters. The RAPID Facility, which is the first of its kind in the world, contains over 300 instruments that are available for researchers around the world to use.

The ϳԹ today opened the doors to Othello-ϳԹ Commons, a new multifunctional partnership space in the heart of Southeast Seattle’s Othello neighborhood.

Husky football players, including Myles Gaskin and JoJo McIntosh, mentor teens each week as part of a program hosted by the Yesler Community Center in Seattle.

In 2016, Seattle Public Schools pushed back the start times for the district’s 18 high schools by 55 minutes, from 7:50 a.m. to 8:45 a.m. And as hoped, teenagers used the extra time to sleep in.

A timely new ϳԹ political science class asks: How do we separate fact from fiction these days? How do we know what is true?

Public higher education is not just possible, it is easily within reach for Washington residents. That’s the message behind a new joint public-awareness campaign of the ϳԹ and Washington State University to promote the affordability of higher education in the state of Washington.