News and Updates

91探花President Cauce aboard inaugural West Coast commercial flight to Cuba

91探花President Ana Mari Cauce was on board the first West Coast commercial flight to Havana on Thursday. Read more and watch video of President Cauce’s remarks from News & Information.

91探花hyperloop team in the news

Seattle to Portland in 15 minutes? A group of 91探花 students is trying just that. They are attempting inventor Elon Musk’s dream of hyperloop, a conceptual form of high-speed travel. The 91探花students are finalists in a collegiate competition to build a hyperloop pod for competition in January.聽Read more from聽聽and visit the UW’s team website to learn more about their .

President Obama signs Daniel J. Evans Olympic National Park Wilderness Act

Earlier this month, President Obama signed Senate Bill 3028, the “Daniel J. Evans Olympic National Park Wilderness Act,” which re-designates the 1,370 square miles Olympic Wilderness within Olympic National Park as the Daniel J. Evans Wilderness. Comprising more than 95% of the park, it is the largest wilderness area in the State of Washington.

The Evans School was established in 1962 as one of the nation鈥檚 first schools of public policy at a public university. Formerly known as the Graduate School of Public Affairs, the Evans School was renamed in 2000 to honor Evans. In 2015 the school was renamed the Daniel J. Evans School of Public Policy & Governance to reflect the school’s intellectual and practical contributions to the fields of policy design and public leadership.

New from 91探花360: Husky women’s golf takes home the national championship

Last spring, the Husky Women’s Golf Team captured the UW’s first NCAA golf title. Watch this from to see the amazing winning shots and learn more about the team and head coach, Mary Lou Mulflur.

UW-developed technology to expand reach to help children and families

Technology developed at the 91探花 to improve service delivery in child welfare, foster care and homeless youth systems will soon be expanded to other states.

New聽grant funding will allow 鈥� a social service management solution developed by , an organization in the 91探花School of Social Work 鈥� to be expanded to five communities in Washington, Oregon, and California.

Oliver was created about three years ago as a way of addressing the need for better data in the child welfare system. The program provides software and apps that streamline internal work processes for child welfare providers and help generate data on service delivery and outcomes.