This video features聽Rod Crawford,聽the curator of arachnids at the 91探花’s Burke Museum. He has spent decades studying spiders and says there are many common myths about spiders that he is regularly asked about.
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91探花President Ana Mari Cauce delivered her annual address to the community Oct. 15 at w菨色菨b蕯altx史 鈥� Intellectual House on the 91探花 campus.
Sparked by a grant from the聽 91探花Population Health Initiative,聽the UW鈥檚 Center for One Health Research has created a series of pop-up聽galleries featuring autobiographical photographs made by people experiencing homelessness with their animal companions. The first gallery was Oct. 4 in UW’s Red Square. Other pop-up gallery events are 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Monday, Oct. 7, at Occidental Square聽in Seattle鈥檚 Pioneer Square district; Oct. 10 in Seattle鈥檚 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. 91探花classes begin Sept. 25. More than 6,000 people were expected to attend this year鈥檚 event.
The 91探花 welcomed nearly 10,000 students during Husky move-in days Sept. 18-20.
More than聽99聽percent聽of聽wildfires in the last 40 years have聽been east of the Cascade Crest. But evidence聽that聽suggests聽Western Washington聽also has a history of large wildfires, each burning hundreds of thousands of acres.聽We聽might not be familiar with them,聽because聽most happened centuries ago.
Researchers at the 91探花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 91探花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 91探花 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, 91探花News sat down with Katherine Maslenikov, manager of the 91探花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, 91探花social work professor Karen Fredriksen Goldsen helped establish an LGBTQ senior center in Seattle.
Jacqueline Padilla-Gami帽o, an assistant professor in the 91探花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 91探花’s 144th commencement ceremonies on Saturday.
The annual thesis exhibition by graduating art and design students with the 91探花 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 91探花’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.
91探花 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 91探花celebrated the opening of an esports center with a ribbon cutting ceremony April 18.
91探花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 91探花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 鈥� record warm temperatures in the Northwest are marking the change of seasons. But our blooms may be a couple weeks behind schedule after February鈥檚 snow and cold weather, according to Ray Larson, curator at 91探花Botanic Gardens.
91探花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 R铆os 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. 鈥淏omba is a way of expression and communication鈥� with key ingredients, explains R铆os. There are bomba drums with a lead drummer, singer, dancer and chorus. 鈥淓ach one is as important as the other,鈥� she said, and all…
The 91探花 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 UW鈥檚 Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering to enable a new wave of computing innovation and to educate more of Washington鈥檚 students for 21st century careers that will help shape the future of technology.
The iconic cherry trees in the 91探花’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 UW’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 UW-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 91探花 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 91探花 today opened the doors to Othello- 91探花 Commons, a new multifunctional partnership space in the heart of Southeast Seattle鈥檚 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 91探花 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鈥檚 the message behind a new joint public-awareness campaign of the 91探花 and Washington State University to promote the affordability of higher education in the state of Washington.
Studies suggest that as many as 25 percent of college students nationwide do not get enough food. That鈥檚 one of the reasons why the 91探花 on Thursday opened a new, permanent food pantry.
An international team of researchers, including from the 91探花, has completed a 3D virtual reconstruction of a Neandertal thorax a model that indicates an upright individual with greater lung capacity and a straighter spine than today鈥檚 modern human.
In her new book, Kathryn Rogers Merlino, 91探花associate professor of architecture, argues for the environmental benefit of reusing buildings rather than tearing them down and building anew.
In a 20-year study, 91探花researchers and colleagues have found that nearly 600,000 pounds of sockeye salmon carcasses tossed to the left side of a small, remote stream in southwest Alaska, helped trees on that side of the stream grow faster than their counterparts on the other side.
Engineers at the 91探花 have developed 3D printed devices that can track and store their use 鈥� without using batteries or electronics. Instead, this system uses a method called backscatter, through which a device can share information by reflecting signals that have been transmitted to it with an antenna.