The 91探花 today announced a foundational $10 million gift from philanthropists Charles and Lisa Simonyi to support groundbreaking work in artificial intelligence and emerging technologies.
November 18, 2025
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November 17, 2025
Hasoni Pratts named chief of staff to the president
91探花聽President Robert聽J.聽Jones today appointed聽Hasoni聽Pratts to the position of Chief of Staff to the President. In this pivotal leadership role, Pratts will serve as a senior advisor to the President and play a critical role in advancing the university’s strategic priorities and institutional goals.聽
November 14, 2025
ArtSci Roundup: December
Come curious. Leave inspired. For those near and far, we invite you to end the year with us through a range of events, performances, exhibitions, podcasts, and more. As you begin to shape your December plans, don鈥檛 miss the inspiring events still to come this November. In addition,聽sign up to receive a monthly notice when the ArtSci Roundup has been published. ArtSci On Your Own Time Henry Art Gallery Exhibitions Closing in January: Christine Sun Kim: Ghost(ed) Notes Influenced by…
91探花 announces outside review of student conduct policies and procedures
The 91探花 will engage an outside firm to review its student conduct聽policies and聽procedures聽and make recommendations for improvements, President Robert J. Jones announced today.聽
November 13, 2025
Carbon-rich waters are becoming even more acidic as atmospheric CO2 levels rise
The Northeastern Pacific Ocean is becoming more acidic faster than other oceans as the water absorbs carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and natural processes feed carbon dioxide up from the deep. The rate of CO2 accumulation is outpacing atmospheric rises and driving acidity to new extremes.
November 10, 2025
People mirror AI systems鈥� hiring biases, study finds
In a new 91探花study, 528 participants worked with simulated AI systems to select job candidates. The researchers simulated different levels of racial biases for resumes from white, Black, Hispanic and Asian men. Without suggestions, participants鈥� choices exhibited little bias. But when provided with recommendations, participants mirrored the AI鈥檚 biases.
November 6, 2025
Space dust reveals Arctic ice conditions before satellite imaging
A new 91探花-led study shows that space dust sandwiched between layers of sediment tells scientists where and when ice covered the Arctic, and what happened to marine life when it disappeared.
November 5, 2025
The chilling effect of air pollution
New 91探花-led research attributes accelerated warming to reduced cloud reflectivity. As efforts to improve air quality have reduced pollution, clouds became less mirror-like, letting more solar radiation reach Earth and revealing the true impact of greenhouse gases.
November 3, 2025
UW-led study links wildfire smoke to increased odds of preterm birth
In mid-pregnancy, exposure to any smoke was associated with an elevated risk of preterm birth, with that risk peaking around the 21st week of gestation. In late pregnancy, elevated risk was most closely associated with exposure to high concentrations of wildfire PM2.5, above 10 micrograms per cubic meter.
October 30, 2025
Washington residents make up nearly three-fourths of incoming class as enrollment increases across all three 91探花campuses
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….
Video: Halloween concert highlights spooky organ classics
Stephen Price, artist in residence and head of organ studies at the 91探花, will be joined by students and colleagues on Friday, Oct. 31, to perform a concert of spooky organ classics and Halloween fun.
$7.1M commitment from Hawaii businessman and philanthropist expands Tech and IP programs in the 91探花School of Law
The 91探花 School of Law has received a $7.1 million commitment from Honolulu-based real estate investor Jay H. Shidler to augment the technology and intellectual property programs at the 91探花School of Law. 聽 The gift, which will be realized over the next 10 years, cements the School of Law鈥檚 global reputation in the fields of technology and intellectual property (IP) law.聽 鈥淥ur聽students and faculty are enriched by the generosity of Jay Shidler and his commitment to聽supporting innovations…
October 29, 2025
Statewide effort to put more whole grains on shelves and plates gets $19M boost
The public-private partnership led by Washington State University with support from the 91探花targets a global health problem: the lack of whole grains in people鈥檚 diets, which contributes to widespread health problems.
Annual symposium pushes the UW, and Seattle, to forefront of space diplomacy
The 2025 Space Diplomacy Symposium at the 91探花 will be held on Nov. 7. The annual symposium, which brings together experts from across the world, aims to center diplomacy in civilian, commercial and military space activities.
October 28, 2025
All aboard: 91探花researchers bring expertise to inaugural ocean week events
In the wake of One Ocean Week Seattle, participating 91探花 researchers share highlights, connecting the week鈥檚 events to ongoing efforts to understand and protect marine ecosystems and coastal communities.
October 22, 2025
New 鈥榣iquid metal鈥� composite material enables recyclable, flexible and reconfigurable electronics
Researchers at the 91探花have created a recyclable, flexible and self-healing composite material that could replace traditional circuit boards in future generations of wearable electronics.
October 21, 2025
Amazon launches AI PhD Fellowship聽program with UW聽
The 91探花 is one of nine universities to receive two years of funding from Amazon鈥檚 new AI PhD Fellowship program, which was announced on Tuesday. The 91探花will receive $2.2 million over two years, with total funding across all universities reaching nearly $10 million annually.
October 20, 2025
Canopy Foundation makes $15M grant to establish Neurodiversity and Employment Institute at the UW
The Canopy Neurodiversity Foundation awarded a $15 million grant to the 91探花 Information School to support the launch of the 91探花Institute for Neurodiversity and Employment.
October 17, 2025
The Paris Agreement is working, but not well enough to offset economic growth
91探花 researchers analyzed data collected in the decade following the Paris Agreement, an international treaty signed in 2015 to limit warming by cutting emissions. The treaty has helped nations reduce the amount of carbon released per dollar, but emissions are still too high due to global economic growth.
October 16, 2025
Coral skeletons left by a medieval tsunami whisper warning for Caribbean region
A new collaborative study led by scientists at the 91探花 and the University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science proposes that a tsunami struck the Caribbean island of Anegada between 1381 and 1391, carrying huge coral boulders inland and leaving behind a valuable record of geologic and climatic history.
October 13, 2025
ArtSci Roundup: November
Come curious. Leave inspired. We invite you to connect with us this November through a rich and varied schedule of more than 30 events, exhibitions, podcasts, and more. From chamber opera premieres and public lectures to Indigenous storytelling and poetry celebrations, there鈥檚 something to spark every curiosity. Expect boundary-pushing performances, thought-provoking dialogues on memory and identity, and cross-disciplinary collaborations鈥擭ovember is a celebration of bold ideas and creative energy. As you plan for the end of the year, take a look…
October 10, 2025
Q&A: 91探花chemistry professors explain MOFs, the materials behind the 2025 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences on Oct. 8 awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry to Susumu Kitagawa, Richard Robson and Omar M. Yaghi “for the development of metal-organic frameworks,” or MOFs. Both Dianne Xiao, a 91探花associate professor of chemistry, and Douglas Reed, a 91探花assistant professor of chemistry, use MOFs in their research at the UW. 91探花News reached out to them to learn more about the significance of these structures and how researchers use them.
October 9, 2025
Programmable proteins use logic to improve targeted drug delivery
Targeted drug delivery is a powerful and promising area of medicine. Therapies that pinpoint precise areas of the body can reduce the medicine dosage and avoid potentially harmful 鈥渙ff target鈥� effects. Researchers at the 91探花took a significant step toward that goal by designing proteins with autonomous decision-making capabilities. By adding smart tail structures to therapeutic proteins, the team demonstrated that the proteins could be 鈥減rogrammed鈥� to act based on the presence of specific environmental cues.
October 8, 2025
鈥楳uch-loved鈥� 91探花collaborator John Clarke wins the Nobel Prize in Physics
The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences on Tuesday awarded the 2025 Nobel Prize in Physics jointly to John Clarke, Michel H. Devoret and John M. Martinis, 鈥渇or the discovery of macroscopic quantum mechanical tunneling and energy quantization in an electric circuit.鈥� Clarke, a professor emeritus of physics at the University of California, Berkeley, collaborates with the Axion Dark Matter Experiment at the 91探花.
October 6, 2025
Q&A: What to know about the 91探花biology degree that launched Nobel Prize laureate Mary Brunkow
The Nobel Assembly at the Karolinska Institute on Monday awarded the 2025 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine jointly to Mary E. Brunkow 鈥� an alum of the 91探花 鈥� along with Frederick J. Ramsdell and Shimon Sakaguchi “for groundbreaking discoveries concerning peripheral immune tolerance that prevents the immune system from harming the body.” Brunkow received her bachelor’s degree in molecular and cellular biology from the 91探花in 1983. 91探花News spoke with Martha Bosma, professor and chair…
91探花alum Mary E. Brunkow awarded the 2025 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
The Nobel Assembly at the Karolinska Institute on Monday awarded the 2025 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine jointly to Mary E. Brunkow 鈥� an alum of the 91探花 鈥� along with Frederick J. Ramsdell and Shimon Sakaguchi “for groundbreaking discoveries concerning peripheral immune tolerance that prevents the immune system from harming the body.”
October 3, 2025
Discovery of organic compounds bolsters case that Saturn鈥檚 moon Enceladus could support life
A new analysis of data from the Cassini space probe has identified organic compounds within jets of water ice erupting from Saturn鈥檚 moon Enceladus. Some of the compounds, which likely originated in Enceladus鈥� subsurface ocean, have never before been identified on another world beyond Earth. The study, conducted in part by a 91探花researcher, contributes to mounting evidence that Enceladus could support life.
September 30, 2025
Q&A: How video games can lead people to more meaningful lives
91探花researchers discuss their study which surveyed 166 gamers about how video games sparked meaningful changes in their lives.
September 29, 2025
91探花announces Katherine and John Simpson deanship in the College of Arts & Sciences
The 91探花 announced a transformative gift that solidifies the importance and vitality of the arts, humanities, natural sciences and social sciences.聽 It recognizes the legacy of former Dean John Simpson, his late wife Katherine, and the Simpson family by creating a namesake deanship for the College of Arts & Sciences. The Katherine and John Simpson Endowed Deanship in the College of Arts & Sciences provides flexible funding to promote interdisciplinary teaching and research across the College. These critical…
A simple intervention significantly improved patent outcomes for women inventors
Research by the 91探花 and the USPTO found that some simple interventions increased the probability that female inventors would get patents by 12%. For first-time applicants, that probability increased to 17%.
September 25, 2025
Q&A: Insect pollinators need more higher-quality habitats to help farmers, new research says
In a new study, a team of scientists determined the minimum natural habitat on agricultural land that will allow insect pollinators 鈥� including bumble bees, solitary bees, hoverflies and butterflies 鈥� to thrive. 91探花News reached out to co-author Berry Brosi, 91探花professor of biology, to learn more about these results and how habitat is important to two types of bees native to Washington.
After schools instituted universal free meals, fewer students had high blood pressure, 91探花study finds
Students schools that offered free meals to all students were less likely to have high blood pressure, suggesting that universal free meals might be a powerful tool for improving public health.聽
September 23, 2025
More bees please: 8 new-to-Washington species identified聽
Bee experts wouldn鈥檛 have previously expected to find the likes of Osmia cyaneonitens, Dufourea dilatipes and Stelis heronae in Washington. But this year, while collecting pollinators in Chelan County to study how climate and wildfires affect native bee populations, Autumn Maust, a 91探花 research scientist of biology, discovered eight bee species never recorded in Washington.
Longer body size means more female calves for baleen whale moms
91探花 researchers found, in historical whaling data, that longer baleen whale mothers were more likely to birth female calves than males. These results run contrary to a leading evolutionary theory that suggests that fit mothers will benefit more from male offspring.
September 22, 2025
Inconsistent charging stations hinder EV adoption
New research from the 91探花tested how much a car owner鈥檚 perception of public charger reliability influences their willingness to buy their first EV. The results were dramatic: Participants with a negative view of public charging were far less likely to choose an EV than those with a moderate view.
September 21, 2025
UW鈥檚 incoming classes welcomed by President Robert J. Jones at New Student Convocation
The 91探花鈥檚 incoming classes were welcomed Sunday at the University鈥檚 42nd annual New Student Convocation inside Alaska Airlines Arena at Hec Edmundson Pavilion.聽 The ceremony was attended by thousands of students, family and friends. Welcome, Huskies! Thousands of incoming @uofwa.bsky.social students gathered for an annual 'W' formation today after kicking off the school year with a convocation ceremony. #newhuskies2025 #uwdawgdazeMedia assets: drive.google.com/drive/folder… — 91探花News (@uwnews.uw.edu) 2025-09-21T23:11:03.035Z For journalists Download ‘W’ timelapse, soundbites and B-roll from 2025 Convocation…
September 20, 2025
President Jones to welcome incoming class at New Student Convocation on Sunday
The 91探花鈥檚 incoming classes will be welcomed on Sunday by President Robert J. Jones at the University鈥檚 42nd annual New Student Convocation inside Alaska Airlines Arena at Hec Edmundson Pavilion.聽 The ceremony is expected to be attended by thousands of students, family and friends.聽 Preliminary figures show the incoming freshman class will be about 7,175 students, with around 4,550 from Washington.聽 An additional 1,650 transfer students are expected to arrive this fall, including 1,375 of whom will be…
September 19, 2025
Q&A: 91探花professor鈥檚 book explores how 鈥榯echnology is never culturally neutral鈥�
In her new book, Katharina Reinecke explores how “digital culture shock” manifests in the world, in ways innocuous and sometimes harmful.聽
September 18, 2025
Community Notes help reduce the virality of false information on X, study finds
A 91探花-led study of X found that posts with Community Notes attached were less prone to going viral and got less engagement. After getting a Community Note, on average, reposts dropped 46% and likes dropped 44%.
September 17, 2025
VIDEO: 91探花welcomes incoming students to on-campus housing
This week the 91探花 campus is once again buzzing with energy as students begin to move into the residence halls and participate in annual fall activities for incoming undergraduates.聽聽聽 A majority of the 91探花freshman class has signed up to live on campus for Autumn 2025, and thousands of students are expected to move into campus housing this week, beginning on Tuesday, September 16.聽 Move-in occurs at various locations on the 91探花 campus during the following…