Recent books from 91探花 faculty and staff include those from legal studies at 91探花Tacoma, international studies, political science, history and Asian languages and literature.聽


Recent books from 91探花 faculty and staff include those from legal studies at 91探花Tacoma, international studies, political science, history and Asian languages and literature.聽

The 91探花 has again earned a prestigious recognition for the impact and importance of the connections faculty, students and staff have with local, regional and global communities.

Total enrollment is up across all three 91探花 campuses for the 2025-26 academic year, according to the annual census count released this month. Each year, the 91探花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 UW鈥檚 Seattle campus, up from 51,719 in 2024. Total enrollment at 91探花Bothell jumped to 6,361 students, up 4.7% from 2024….

Four 91探花 researchers have been selected as Fulbright Scholars for 2025-2026 and will pursue studies in Spain, Taiwan, Poland and Japan.

Seven 91探花students and recent alumni were awarded聽Fulbright U.S. Student Program聽scholarships for the 2025鈥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.

91探花 President Ana Mari Cauce is the featured speaker at the UW鈥檚 150th Commencement ceremony on Alaska Airlines Field at Husky Stadium scheduled for 1:30 p.m., Saturday, June 14.

For Valentine’s Day, 91探花News asked 12 91探花 researchers to share their love stories: What made them decide to pursue their career paths?

Three new faculty books from the 91探花 cover the recipes and culture of the world鈥檚 largest Syrian refugee camp, traditional ecological knowledge of Indigenous peoples and data science for neuroimaging researchers. 91探花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鈥檚 largest Syrian refugee camp, she noticed that stories of the camp rarely included women鈥檚 voices. As she learned more about their…

Two 91探花 researchers are investigating how to mitigate the effects of climate change on common road pavements, such as asphalt and concrete.

The 91探花鈥檚 graduate and professional degree programs were widely recognized as among the best in the nation, according to U.S. News & World Report鈥檚 2025 Best Graduate Schools rankings released late Monday.

This week, attend the 91探花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 91探花鈥檚 newest freshman class is one of the most diverse in the school鈥檚 162-year history, and 91探花Bothell and 91探花Tacoma are welcoming their largest incoming classes.

The 91探花 has been recognized on two lists that measure impact on students and communities. The 91探花placed third in the nation among public universities on the Washington Monthly 2023 National University Rankings, which ranks the school鈥檚 impact on its graduates and the nation. In a separate ranking, all three 91探花campuses topped the state for best value, according to SmartAsset, a financial services portal.

The 91探花 today announced that PepsiCo will become its official beverage partner beginning July 1.
Recent recognition of the 91探花 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 91探花鈥檚 graduate and professional degree programs were widely recognized as among the best in the nation, according to聽U.S. News & World Report鈥檚 2024 Best Graduate Schools聽rankings released late Monday.

Four new faculty books from the 91探花 cover topics ranging from inequality鈥檚 effects on health to fad diets to former German chancellor Angela Merkel鈥檚 legacy on gender equality.

Three new faculty books from the 91探花 cover a variety of topics: nightlife among Black queer women, hybrid warfare and Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, and decolonizing climate justice.

Connect with the 91探花community every week through public events and exhibitions, summarized in this ArtSci Roundup.

Black womanhood and corporate branding, Indigenous mound building and volunteering for the Peace Corps are among the subjects of recent and upcoming books by 91探花 faculty.

As the academic year gets underway, the 91探花鈥檚 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 91探花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.

In the fall of 2020, amid the COVID pandemic, Kara Wells began her career as an assistant professor of accounting at the 91探花 Bothell鈥檚 business school.

Cue the band: It鈥檚 time for “Pomp and Circumstance.鈥
There will be flowing robes and purple-and-gold tassels. The gonfalons, symbols of the 16 colleges and schools that make up the 91探花, have been unfurled and prepared. Campus is being adorned and the iconic Drumheller Fountain soon will again be cast in a purple glow.

91探花鈥檚 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 91探花Bothell and 91探花Tacoma.

Arriving at the 91探花鈥檚 Seattle campus, Brandon Green had a familiar feeling of disorientation.
Green, 33, who transferred to the 91探花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鈥檇 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.

Researchers at the 91探花 and 91探花Tacoma have been studying arsenic levels in the mud, water and in creatures from lakes in the south Puget Sound area. Eating contaminated fish or snails from these lakes could lead to health risks.

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 91探花 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 鈥渢heir 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.鈥

91探花 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 91探花 Tacoma. Her appointment, pending approval by the 91探花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 team led by researchers at 91探花Tacoma, 91探花and Washington State University Puyallup has discovered a chemical that kills coho salmon in urban streams before the fish can spawn.

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

Three new rankings out this month place 91探花among the best schools in the nation and the world.

Social inequalities, specifically racism and classism, are impacting the biodiversity, evolutionary shifts and ecological health of plants and animals in our cities. That鈥檚 the main finding of a review paper published Aug. 13 in Science led by the 91探花, with co-authors at the University of California, Berkeley, and University of Michigan.

Notable new books by 91探花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 鈥 and an award for the editor-in-chief of 91探花Press.

A talk with Eric Madfis of 91探花Tacoma about his new book “How to Stop School Rampage Killing: Lessons from Averted Mass Shootings and Bombings,” published this spring by Palgrave MacMillan.

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

91探花family physician Morhaf Al Achkar publishes memoir “Being Authentic,” and a Lambda Literary award goes to 91探花Tacoma’s Emily Thuma.

Two 91探花 students have been named 2020 Udall Scholars. Sierra Campbell and Taylor Owens join only 55 students nationally to receive this prestigious honor.