July 14, 2025
鈥淐ommunications & Design for the Environment,鈥� a Communication Leadership course held for the first time this spring, 91探花 professors Adrienne Russell and Dominic Muren teach students how to examine the climate crisis and environmental problems from a perspective beyond the hard sciences.
July 11, 2025
The Pat Tillman Foundation this week announced the 2025 Class of Tillman Scholars, which included two 91探花 students who exemplify the values Pat Tillman stood for: leadership, service, scholarship and impact. Stephanie Mitchell is a third-year doctoral student in the 91探花Department of Environmental & Occupational Health Sciences (DEOHS) and a military spouse. Her interdisciplinary research focuses on global health and conservation. Brian Riley earned a degree in Economics from the US Air Force Academy, and served nearly…
July 10, 2025
91探花 Provost Tricia R. Serio announced the appointment of Danny Barrow to serve as the vice provost for Enrollment Management beginning July 28.
July 2, 2025
The 91探花 today announced the selection of Studio Tsien to design the Ana Mari Cauce Welcome Center. The 91探花Architectural Commission made the recommendation in June.
July 1, 2025
91探花 researchers developed the game AI Puzzlers to show kids an area where AI systems still typically and blatantly fail: solving certain reasoning puzzles. In the game, users get a chance to solve puzzles by completing patterns of colored blocks. They can then ask various AI chatbots to solve and have the systems explain their solutions 鈥� which they nearly always fail to do accurately.
June 30, 2025
91探花 Provost Tricia R. Serio announced that Joel Thornton has agreed to serve as interim dean of the College of the Environment, effective July 1, until a new permanent dean is selected.
Adrienne Fairhall and David Hertzog are among 120 new members and 30 international members elected 鈥渋n recognition of their distinguished and continuing achievements in original research.”
Four 91探花 researchers have been selected as Fulbright Scholars for 2025-2026 and will pursue studies in Spain, Taiwan, Poland and Japan.
June 26, 2025
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.
June 25, 2025
New research found that a market-based approach to managing water could provide more reliable supplies for farmers, communities and industry. The right market design and a little extra investment could also help threatened fish species.聽
June 23, 2025
The 91探花 has for years been instrumental in the state鈥檚 efforts to keep workers safe. But those efforts are now under threat.
A new era of astronomy and astrophysics began Monday when the first images captured by the NSF鈥揇OE Vera C. Rubin Observatory were released, demonstrating the extraordinary capabilities of the new telescope and the world鈥檚 largest digital camera.
June 18, 2025
The 91探花 is No. 8 on the 2025-26 U.S. News & World Report鈥檚 Best Global Universities rankings, released聽on Tuesday. The 91探花maintained its No. 2 ranking among U.S. public institutions.
June 17, 2025
Brain-computer interfaces, or BCIs, can help people with severe injuries or impairments regain the ability to communicate or move their arms and legs through robotic substitutes. The devices, which are about the size of a dime and are implanted on the surface of a person鈥檚 brain, serve as a communication link between the brain鈥檚 neural activity and an external device, such as a computer or a robotic limb. In this episode, Sara Goering, a 91探花 professor of philosophy,…
June 12, 2025
Imagine sitting in a movie theater watching a film you鈥檝e been anticipating for months. Suddenly, the screen goes blank. It only lasts a second, but that鈥檚 long enough to disrupt the experience. It鈥檚 also long enough, says Mal Ahern, to remind you of the physical infrastructure behind what we so often see as an immaterial experience. Ahern, a 91探花 assistant professor of cinema and media studies, researches glitches in everything from printers to projectors. In this episode, she…
June 11, 2025
Recent recognition of the 91探花 includes an EarthLab Innovation Grant, the Best Paper Award from American Political Science Association and honorable recognition mention from the American Society for Theatre Research. 91探花professor Richard Watts and team awarded EarthLab Innovation Grant Richard Watts, 91探花associate professor of French, is part of an interdisciplinary team from the 91探花that received an EarthLab Innovation Grant to support their collaborative project, 鈥淟ife in Spite of It All: Water, Wetlands, and Reclamation in…
From campus to wherever you call home, we welcome you to learn from and connect with the College of Arts & Sciences community through public events spanning the arts, humanities, natural sciences, and social sciences. We hope to see you this Summer. ArtSci on the Go Looking for more ways to get more out of Arts & Sciences? Check out these resources to take ArtSci wherever you go! Zev J. Handel, “Chinese Characters Across Asia: How the Chinese Script Came…
Recent faculty books from the 91探花 include those from linguistics, Slavic languages and literature and French. 91探花News spoke with the authors of four publications to learn more about their work. Scrutinizing and confronting AI hype Emily M. Bender, 91探花professor of linguistics, co-authored 鈥淭he AI Con: How to Fight Big Tech鈥檚 Hype and Create the Future We Want鈥� with Alex Hanna, the director of research at the Distributed AI Research Institute. The book looks at the the…
June 10, 2025
Ken Yocom has been named the next John and Rosalind Jacobi Family Endowed Dean of the 91探花 College of Built Environments, Provost Tricia Serio announced today. His appointment, effective July 1, is subject to approval by the 91探花Board of Regents. Yocom has served as interim dean since October 2024 and is a professor in the Department of Landscape Architecture, where he previously served as department chair. A longtime member of the 91探花faculty, Yocom brings deep institutional…
Virtual assistants, such as Apple鈥檚 Siri, can perform a range of tasks or services for users 鈥� and a majority of them sound like white women. Golden Marie Owens, assistant professor of cinema and media studies at the 91探花, says there is much to learn about a person from how they sound. The same holds true for technology. In this episode, Owens discusses her research into why a white woman is the default voice for virtual assistants in…
June 9, 2025
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.
June 5, 2025
Imagine an art class where you only did paint by numbers, or a music class where you weren鈥檛 allowed to play a song until you practiced scales for 20 years. This is often what it鈥檚 like to take a math class, where students spend most of their time learning to solve problems that have already been figured out. But while the basics are important in any subject, so is creativity. In this episode, Jayadev Athreya discusses mathematics as the language…
June 3, 2025
A group of astronomers from across the globe, including a team from the 91探花 and led by Queen鈥檚 University Belfast, have revealed new research showing that millions of new solar system objects will be detected by a brand-new facility, which is expected to come online later this year.聽聽
A new 91探花鈥搇ed study projects that in the next 35 years increasing boreal fires will actually slow global warming by 12% globally and 38% in the Arctic. Because the aerosols in smoke reflect more sunlight and make clouds brighter, summer temperatures during fire season drop, leading to reduced sea ice loss and cooler winter temperatures.
Since 2014, The European Union has been crafting policy on the rights of disabled people with 鈥渋ndependent living鈥� as a key element. Officials noticed the law wasn鈥檛 being followed in countries like Malta, so they moved these young people into their own apartments. But these were pretty much the only people in their 20s who weren鈥檛 still living at home. This is an example of Western bias in disability studies, says Stephen Meyers, a 91探花associate professor of law, societies…
On June 3, scientists working on the Muon g-2 experiment (pronounced “mew-on gee-minus-two”) released the third and final measurement of the muon magnetic anomaly. This result agrees with the published results from 2021 and 2023 but with a much better precision of 127 parts per billion, surpassing the original experimental design goal of 140 parts per billion.
The study revealed that iron released from industrial processes, such as coal combustion and steelmaking, is altering the ecosystem in the North Pacific Transition Zone, an area just north of Hawai’i that’s important for Pacific fisheries.
May 30, 2025
The Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation, or AMOC, is a system of ocean currents that plays a crucial role in regulating Earth鈥檚 climate by transporting heat from the Southern to Northern Hemisphere. Climate models have long predicted that global warming will cause the AMOC to weaken, with some projecting what amounts to a near-collapse relative to the AMOC strength in observations today. But a new study from a team of researchers that included the 91探花 shows that the AMOC is likely to weaken to a much lesser extent than current projections suggest.
Notice is given under SEPA, RCW 43.21.C.080, that the 91探花 took the action described below on May 30, 2025. Any action to set aside, enjoin, review or otherwise challenge such action on the grounds of non-compliance with the provisions of chapter 43.21C RCW (State Environmental Policy Act) shall be commenced on or before June 30, 2025. Description of the proposed action: Approval of the UMWC-Northwest Major Institution Master Plan by the Seattle City Council in Clerk File 314511….
May 28, 2025
The kingdom of Aksum was one of the most powerful empires in the world in the fourth century. It played a major role in the histories of Egypt, Persia and Rome, as well as the early days of Christianity and Islam. But Aksum鈥檚 accomplishments have long been overlooked because they are recorded in the ancient African language of Ge鈥檈z. Like Latin, Ge鈥檈z is rarely spoken today. It鈥檚 taught at just three universities in the Western world, including by Hamza Zafer…
May 23, 2025
From campus to wherever you call home, we welcome you to learn from and connect with the College of Arts & Sciences community through public events spanning the arts, humanities, natural sciences, and social sciences. We hope to see you this June. ArtSci on the Go Looking for more ways to get more out of Arts & Sciences? Check out these resources to take ArtSci wherever you go! Zev J. Handel, “Chinese Characters Across Asia: How the Chinese Script Came…
May 22, 2025
The 91探花 today announced that a planned welcome center on the Seattle campus will be named in honor of President Ana Mari Cauce, who will step down this summer after 10 years in the position and return to the faculty.聽聽
A new study from Abhinav Gupta, professor of management in the 91探花 Foster School of Business, examines how public universities decided whether to offer same-sex domestic partner benefits in the early 1990s and 2000s. The research offers timely lessons on how universities can navigate politically charged issues without abandoning their core commitments.
There is more to literature than the text itself. Anything that surrounds the text 鈥� from the cover to chapter headings and author bios 鈥� is known as paratext. This is what transforms text into a book. Richard Watts鈥檚 research focuses on this under-examined aspect of literature. In this episode, Watts, an associate professor of French at the 91探花, explains how everything we read comes with accompanying discourse. Decisions have already been made about how readers should…
91探花 President Ana Mari Cauce today announced the selection of Joe Dacca as vice president for the 91探花Office of External Affairs effective July 2.
May 20, 2025
English, philosophy and comparative literature aren鈥檛 typically subjects that come to mind when thinking about big datasets. But the intersection between literature and data analysis is exactly where Anna Preus works. Preus, a 91探花 assistant professor of English and of data science, digitally streamlined the process of documenting the number of non-British poets published in early 20th-century Great Britain. The number was enormous, but these poets are still absent from the literary canon 鈥� a discrepancy that…
May 14, 2025
In 2023, 91探花 researchers recruited a group of 29 laid-off U.S. tech workers to discuss the effects of recent mass layoffs on employees. Overall, the group was ambivalent about tech work. They said it was often unfulfilling, despite their plans to continue in the industry.
May 9, 2025
91探花researchers designed a headphone system that translates several people speaking at once, following them as they move and preserving the direction and qualities of their voices. The team built the system, called Spatial Speech Translation, with off-the-shelf noise-cancelling headphones fitted with microphones.
May 8, 2025
A UW-led team has developed a system, called ProxiCycle, that logs when a passing car comes too close to a cyclist (four feet or less). A small, inexpensive sensor plugs into bicycle handlebars and tracks the passes, sending them to the rider鈥檚 phone. The team tested the system for two months with 15 cyclists in Seattle and found a significant correlation between the locations of close passes and other indicators of poor safety, such as collisions.
May 7, 2025
The 91探花 has received a notice that the federal Task Force to Combat Anti-Semitism has initiated a review of federal grants and contracts at the University. This follows a several-hour building takeover on May 5 involving significant damage to the building and equipment inside it, setting dumpsters on fire outside the building, and delaying emergency responders. Thirty-four individuals were arrested subject to criminal prosecution and University disciplinary processes. The 21 students who were arrested have been suspended and banned from the all 91探花campuses. Non-student participants will be banned from the UW鈥檚 Seattle campus.