Choosing highlights from 2025 for a video roundup is a tough task. 91Ě˝»¨ video producers meet students, faculty and community members during some of the most exciting moments of their lives — from earning a degree to finding answers that will impact the world.

This year at the UW, we saw cosmic images from a brand new telescope and supercharged a . We used a novel device to regain mobility, and sent a robot out of the lab to help feed people who can’t eat on their own. We launched an aeronautics professor into the sky in a Blue Angels Navy jet and we learned about using nuisance seaweed to help grow healthy crops. We reached out across our state to help solve problems, from calming traffic in Yakima to giving tribal fisheries on the Columbia River critical water temperature data. We welcomed a new president, new students and celebrated commencement. We were also inspired and heartbroken by 91Ě˝»¨women’s soccer player Mia Hamant’s brave fight with kidney cancer and effort to raise awareness of the disease before she passed in November.

Over the course of 2025, the 91Ě˝»¨News office, the and our Be Boundless site shared these stories and more from across the UW, including our researchers’ impactful work, and how we prepare students for successful careers and share our knowledge in teaching and in partnerships all over Washington and the world.

You can follow us and find more stories on the 91Ě˝»¨News website, , , and , as well as the , , and .

For more information, contact Kiyomi Taguchi, 91Ě˝»¨News video producer: ktaguchi@uw.edu or 206-685-2716. Happy New Year!