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Recent recognition of the ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø includes the Camille Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Award, the Rosentiel Award for contributions to ocean science, and the 2026 Distinguished Community Engagement Award Assistant professor of chemistry awarded 2026 Camille Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Award  Matthew Golder, assistant professor of chemistry at the ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø, received a 2026 Camille Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Award from the Camille and Henry Dreyfus Foundation. The award supports early-career faculty in the chemical sciences who have created an outstanding independent body of scholarship and demonstrated a strong commitment to education.   Each Camille…

Total enrollment is up across all three ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø campuses for the 2025-26 academic year, according to the annual census count released this month. Each year, the ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø conducts an official enrollment count after the start of the fall quarter. The total number of students across all three campuses is 63,727. Enrollment increased 1.1% to 52,316 at the ºÚÁϳԹÏ꿉۪s Seattle campus, up from 51,719 in 2024. Total enrollment at ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø Bothell jumped to 6,361 students, up 4.7% from 2024….

Seven ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø students and recent alumni were awarded Fulbright U.S. Student Program scholarships for the 2025–2026 academic year, joining about 2,000 students and recent graduates from around the country to pursue graduate study, conduct research and teach English abroad.

ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø President Ana Mari Cauce is the featured speaker at the ºÚÁϳԹÏ꿉۪s 150th Commencement ceremony on Alaska Airlines Field at Husky Stadium scheduled for 1:30 p.m., Saturday, June 14.

Three new faculty books from the ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø cover the recipes and culture of the world’s largest Syrian refugee camp, traditional ecological knowledge of Indigenous peoples and data science for neuroimaging researchers. ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø News spoke with the authors to learn more. Documenting history and rituals of Syrian cuisine When Karen E. Fisher was invited to Zaatari, the world’s largest Syrian refugee camp, she noticed that stories of the camp rarely included women’s voices. As she learned more about their…

The ºÚÁϳԹÏ꿉۪s graduate and professional degree programs were widely recognized as among the best in the nation, according to U.S. News & World Report’s 2025 Best Graduate Schools rankings released late Monday.

This week, attend the ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø Pandemic Project’s Radical Listening Session to honor each individual’s lived pandemics experiences, head to Meany Hall for Garrick Ohlsson’s piano performance, celebrate Diwali with the Burke Museum, and more. November 7, 4:30 – 6:00pm | Sharon Stein, “The University and Its Responsibility for Repair: Confronting Colonial Foundations and Enabling Different Futures” | A Worlds of Difference lecture, Communications Building This presentation by Sharon Stein asks how universities can navigate the complexity of confronting the colonial…

The ºÚÁϳԹÏ꿉۪s newest freshman class is one of the most diverse in the school’s 162-year history, and ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø Bothell and ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø Tacoma are welcoming their largest incoming classes.

The ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø has been recognized on two lists that measure impact on students and communities. The ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø placed third in the nation among public universities on the Washington Monthly 2023 National University Rankings, which ranks the school’s impact on its graduates and the nation. In a separate ranking, all three ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø campuses topped the state for best value, according to SmartAsset, a financial services portal.

Recent recognition of the ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø includes the election of Andrew Meltzoff to the National Academy of Education, a lifetime achievement award for Dean of the School of Social Work Edwina Uehara and Ed Kolodziej selected as a Frontiers Planet Prize finalist.

The ºÚÁϳԹÏ꿉۪s graduate and professional degree programs were widely recognized as among the best in the nation, according to U.S. News & World Report’s 2024 Best Graduate Schools rankings released late Monday.

As the academic year gets underway, the ºÚÁϳԹÏ꿉۪s public campuses are again bustling and busy with students, faculty, staff and visitors. While the focus is on academics, research, learning and building community, on any given day, there may be safety challenges and individuals who feel unsafe for any number of reasons.

On Saturday, for the first time since 2019, the ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø held in-person Commencement ceremonies at Alaska Airlines Field at Husky Stadium where the University conferred degrees on the Class of 2022. On Sunday, it welcomed alumni from the 2020 and 2021 school years for a Return to Husky Stadium Graduation Celebration.

Cue the band: It’s time for “Pomp and Circumstance.â€

There will be flowing robes and purple-and-gold tassels. The gonfalons, symbols of the 16 colleges and schools that make up the ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø, have been unfurled and prepared. Campus is being adorned and the iconic Drumheller Fountain soon will again be cast in a purple glow.

ºÚÁϳԹÏ꿉۪s 147th commencement ceremonies are scheduled to return this June to in-person celebrations in Alaska Airlines Field at Husky Stadium for the first time since 2019. Similar in-person commencement ceremonies are being planned for ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø Bothell and ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø Tacoma.

Arriving at the ºÚÁϳԹÏ꿉۪s Seattle campus, Brandon Green had a familiar feeling of disorientation.

Green, 33, who transferred to the ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø from Everett Community College after spending seven years as a U.S. Army medic, had travelled the U.S. and the globe, including two tours in Afghanistan. He’d undergone rigorous training and knew what it was like to deploy to foreign, often dangerous places.

Even with all that experience, college life was different.

A model of the eastern California forests of the Sierra Nevada looks at the longer-term future of wildfires under future climate change scenarios. Results show an initial roughly decade-long burst of wildfire activity, followed by recurring fires of decreasing area — a pattern that could apply to other hot, dry forests in the West.

Twenty scientists and engineers at the ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø are among the 38 new members elected to the Washington State Academy of Sciences for 2021, according to a July 15 announcement. New members were chosen for “their outstanding record of scientific and technical achievement, and their willingness to work on behalf of the Academy to bring the best available science to bear on issues within the state of Washington.â€

ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø President Ana Mari Cauce and Provost Mark A. Richards today announced the selection of Sheila Edwards Lange, president of Seattle Central College, as chancellor of the ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø Tacoma. Her appointment, pending approval by the ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø Board of Regents, is set to begin Sept. 16.

To understand how Puget Sound has changed, we first must understand how it used to be. But unlike most major estuaries in the U.S., long-term monitoring of Puget Sound fish populations did not exist until 1990. Now researchers have discovered an unconventional method to help fill in gaps in the data: old vessel logbooks.

A talk with the hosts of Washington Sea Grant’s “Coastal Café” podcast, which is also a radio show. And EarthLab’s podcast “Voices Unbound” releases a new season of timely topics.

Social inequalities, specifically racism and classism, are impacting the biodiversity, evolutionary shifts and ecological health of plants and animals in our cities. That’s the main finding of a review paper published Aug. 13 in Science led by the ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø, with co-authors at the University of California, Berkeley, and University of Michigan.

Notable new books by ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø faculty and staff include a study of rebellion at sea, an emeritus faculty member’s Buddhist-focused memoir, a reconsideration of Northwest Coast Native American art with Indigenous perspectives in mind, thoughts on bridging cultural gaps through design — and an award for the editor-in-chief of ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø Press.

A quick look at several ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø-produced podcasts, from benevolent marketing to Arctic geopolitics — and a classics professor’s work being featured in a podcast produced by the Times Literary Supplement.

ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø family physician Morhaf Al Achkar publishes memoir “Being Authentic,” and a Lambda Literary award goes to ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø Tacoma’s Emily Thuma.