May 6, 2025
The 91探花is committed to maintaining a secure learning and research environment, and strongly condemns this illegal building occupation and the antisemitic statement that was issued by a suspended student group Monday. The University will not be intimidated by this sort of offensive and destructive behavior and will continue to oppose antisemitism in all its forms.
April 29, 2025
When employees follow a three-day office schedule but choose different days to come in, certain team members naturally work together more often. New research from Michael Johnson, professor of management in the 91探花 Foster School of Business, found that, over time, these patterns create 鈥渃o-location imbalance,鈥� which divides teams into subgroups聽with stronger internal relationships.
April 21, 2025
New research from the 91探花, recently published in the Journal of Environmental Education, examined whether children鈥檚 interactions with nature that are embodied, rather than just visual, are associated with feeling connected to something beyond the self. Exploratory analyses found that participants who had embodied interactions reported a greater sense of presence in nature than those who reported only visual interactions.聽
April 15, 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 May. Innovation Month April 30 | An Evening with Christine Sun Kim (Public Lecture) May 1 | John Jennings: The AfroFuture Now (Public Lecture) May 3 | Third Coast Percussion and Jessie Montgomery: Strum, Strike, Bend (Meany Center) May…
April 14, 2025
The 91探花 and KUOW Puget Sound Public Radio are pleased to announce the appointment of鈥疶ina Pamintuan鈥痑s KUOW鈥檚 next President and CEO, effective鈥疉ug. 1, 2025. Pamintuan is a distinguished figure in public media, known for her bold leadership and extensive experience as a journalist and educator. Pamintuan currently serves as the CEO of鈥疭t. Louis Public Radio鈥�(STLPR), a role she assumed in December 2021. She has been an NPR Board member since November 2020 and chairs its DEI committee.聽
April 8, 2025
91探花 associate professors Jessica Bissett Perea and John-Carolos Perea are co-teaching a new iteration of 鈥淧owwow Cultures in Native North America” this quarter. While a powwow course existed in the past, this is the first time it鈥檚 an interdisciplinary offering between American Indian Studies and the School of Music.
April 7, 2025
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 2026 Best Graduate Schools released late Monday.
The 91探花 has learned that, as of this posting, five current 91探花students plus four recent graduates participating in post-graduation training have had their visas unilaterally cancelled by the federal government without prior notice to the University or the students. We are deeply concerned about the well-being of these students and graduates and are working to support them.
April 2, 2025
Children exposed to higher levels of ozone in their first two years of life were significantly more likely to be diagnosed with asthma or wheezing at ages 4-6 鈥� but researchers didn鈥檛 observe the increased risk of asthma at ages 8-9.聽聽
March 31, 2025
Ben Marwick, a 91探花 professor of archaeology, was part of a team of researchers that uncovered a complete Quina technological system in the Longtan site in southwest China. The discovery challenges the widely held perception that the Middle Paleolithic period was mostly static in East Asia.
March 27, 2025
Five 91探花 researchers have been named AAAS Fellows, according to a March 27 announcement by the American Association for the Advancement of Science. They are among 471 newly elected fellows from around the world, who are recognized for their 鈥渟cientifically and socially distinguished achievements鈥� in science and engineering.
March 26, 2025
Bound in calfskin and detailed in gold, a rare 1544 edition of Dante鈥檚 Divine Comedy was added to 91探花Libraries鈥� collection this year. The book is nearly 500 years old, and has likely lasted so long because its pages are made of durable linen fiber, not wood pulp. The handmade leather cover and sturdy binding also helped preserve the book. When librarian Julie Tanaka handles the book today, she knows that there is something here to pique anyone’s interest.
March 25, 2025
A new data set called OS-CONNECT maps sidewalks and other pedestrian paths statewide, from Forks on the Olympic Peninsula to Clarkston in the southeast. In House Bill 1125, the Washington State Legislature assigned the UW’s Taskar Center for Accessible Technology to build the data set, which was completed well ahead of its projected 2027 goal.
March 23, 2025
91探花 President Ana Mari Cauce issued this statement following the passing of Rep. Frank Chopp, former speaker of the Washington House and a 1975 91探花graduate:
March 21, 2025
Pursuant to the provisions of WAC 197-11-340 and WAC 478-324-140, the 91探花 hereby provides public notice of: DETERMINATION OF NON-SIGNIFICANCE Project Name: Husky Soccer Field Renovation Proponent/Lead Agency: UW鈥揝eattle Campus Comment Period Closes: April 4, 2025 Description: The proposed 91探花 Husky Soccer Field project is intended to renovate the field turf to further level the field for drainage and replace light fixtures for energy efficiency and better directional lighting to the field while reducing off-field lighting….
March 20, 2025
Trickery by female white-necked jacobin hummingbirds results in reduced aggression from other hummingbirds and increased access to nectar resources.聽
March 19, 2025
Recent recognition of the 91探花 includes the Best Paper Award at NeurIPS Pluralistic Alignment Workshop, Scialog: Early Science with the LSST Collaborative Innovation Award and 2024 AVS Thin Film Young Investigator Award. Professor wins ‘best paper’ at NeurIPS Pluralistic Alignment Workshop Max Kleiman-Weiner, assistant professor in the 91探花Foster School of Business, received the $1,000 Best Paper Award on Pluralistic Alignment at the NeurIPS 2024 Workshop. The Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems, or NeurIPS, is one of…
March 14, 2025
The 91探花 is the best in the U.S. and No. 2 in the world for library and information management, according to the QS World University Rankings by Subject released Wednesday. Four other 91探花subject areas placed in the top 10.
March 13, 2025
A statement from Blaine Tamaki, Chair of the 91探花Board of Regents, following the 91探花Board of Regents vote this week not to convene an Advisory Committee on Socially Responsible Investing (ACSRI) related to investments in companies doing business with or providing materials to Israel.
March 12, 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 April. Worldwide Conversations April 4 | 91探花 International Security Colloquium (UWISC): “The Blame Game: Militias, civilians, and the states’ accountability-effectiveness trade-off” (Political Science) April 4 | Political Economy Forum presents Brian Leung (Political Science) April 7 |…
March 7, 2025
[April 4] UPDATE:聽 Our iconic cherry trees are in bloom. Plan your visit to campus using this map, which highlights the locations of different cherry trees on the 91探花 campus, including the Yoshino blossoms in the Quad. [March 31] UPDATE: The majority of the blossoms are in peak bloom, a developmental phase which usually lasts about 10 days.聽 This phase can last longer if the weather is cool, calm and dry. [March 25] UPDATE:聽 There are three developmental…
March 4, 2025
Researchers deployed a robotic feeding arm in a pair of studies outside the lab. In the first, six users with motor impairments used the robot to feed themselves a meal in a 91探花cafeteria, an office or a conference room. In the second study, a community researcher and co-author on the research used the system at home for five days.
February 26, 2025
At the 91探花, Ted Poor is the associate director of the School of Music and an associate professor of Jazz Studies. The rest of his calendar is filled with tours, performances and recording sessions.
February 25, 2025
The 91探花 has been recognized once again as one of American higher education鈥檚 top producers of Fulbright students and scholars. This recognition is given to the U.S. colleges and universities that had the highest number of applicants selected for the 2024-25 Fulbright U.S. Student and Fulbright U.S. Scholar Programs 鈥� the federal government鈥檚 flagship international exchange program.
91探花doctoral student Brett Halperin interviewed picketing film workers about AI during the 2023 strikes.
February 20, 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 March. Closing Exhibits March 1 | Overexposures: Photographs from the Henry Collection (Henry Art Gallery) March 1 | Body Language: Recent Acquisitions in the Henry Collection (Henry Art Gallery) March 13 | Unissued Diplomas: Honoring the Student Victims of…
February 18, 2025
91探花researchers developed a new system for turning used coffee grounds into a paste, which they use to 3D print objects, such as packing materials and a vase. They inoculate the paste with Reishi mushroom spores, which turn the coffee grounds into a resilient, fully compostable alternative to plastics.
Three 91探花 faculty members have been awarded early-career fellowships from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. The new Sloan Fellows, announced Feb. 18, are Amy L. Orsborn, the Clare Boothe Luce assistant professor of electrical & computer engineering and bioengineering, Dianne J. Xiao, an assistant professor of chemistry in the College of Arts & Sciences, and Amy X. Zhang, an assistant professor of computer science in the Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering.聽
February 13, 2025
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?
February 6, 2025
A recent theory proposes that whales weren鈥檛 just predators in the ocean environment: Nutrients that whales excreted may have provided a key fertilizer to these marine ecosystems. Research led by 91探花 oceanographers finds that whale excrement contains significant amounts of iron, a vital element that is often scarce in ocean ecosystems, and nontoxic forms of copper, another essential nutrient that in some forms can harm life.
February 3, 2025
The 91探花 Board of Regents on Monday announced that Robert J. Jones, who is currently concluding a nine-year tenure as Chancellor of the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, has been selected as the 34th President of the UW. The Board had previously authorized Chair Blaine Tamaki to enter into contract negotiations with Jones and an agreement has been reached. Jones鈥� five-year contract will begin on August 1.
Thousands of grasshopper specimens from mountains in Colorado show trends in how the insects changed in size over 65 years. With earlier emergence of spring greenery and earlier summer drought, grasshopper species that emerged early in the year grew larger, while grasshopper species that emerge later in the year grew smaller in size. The study, led by 91探花biologist Lauren Buckley, shows that changes in insect size can be predicted based on lifecycles and environmental conditions.
Two 91探花 researchers are developing treatments that aim to simultaneously treat cancer and improve patients’ quality of life. For World Cancer Day, 91探花News asked them to discuss their novel materials and how these materials can treat both the cancer and the patient.
Workers from small, rural communities often move into the outer edges of cities, which offer greater economic opportunities but often have low-quality housing that is likely to suffer greater damage during an earthquake. The risk grows even more when migrants come from low-income or tribal villages.
January 31, 2025
The 91探花 is No. 7 in the world on a list of the top universities in the world powering global innovation, according to the Institute for Scientific Information at Clarivate.
January 27, 2025
How fast the level of atmospheric carbon dioxide 鈥� and with it, the temperature 鈥� goes up matters for the ability of humans and ecosystems to adjust. A slower increase gives humans time to move away from low-lying coasts and animals time to move to new habitats. It turns out the rate of that increase matters for non-living systems, too. Camille Hankel, a postdoctoral researcher at the Cooperative Institute for Climate, Ocean and Ecosystem Studies, talks about her research on the Atlantic Ocean circulation.
January 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 February. Featured Events: Topics in Social Change February 4 | A Shattered Country: Burma/Myanmar Four Years After the 2021 Military Coup d鈥橢tat (Center for Southeast Asia and its Diasporas) February 5 | The Social Shift: Content Creators, New Voices,…
January 21, 2025
A 91探花team studied how AI systems portray teens in English and Nepali, and found that in English language systems around 30% of the responses referenced societal problems such as violence, drug use and mental illness. The Nepali system produced fewer negative associations in responses, closer to 10% of all answers.
January 16, 2025
The Hubble Space Telescope has generated the most comprehensive survey yet of the Andromeda galaxy, the nearest galactic neighbor to the Milky Way. The new mosaic of about 2.5 billion pixels yields new clues to the galaxy’s history. 91探花astronomers presented the findings Jan. 16 at a meeting of the American Astronomical Society.
January 15, 2025
The U.S. Department of Education Office of Civil Rights announced the conclusion of its investigation into complaints alleging that the 91探花 discriminated against students on the basis of shared ancestry by failing to respond to incidents of harassment consistent with the requirements of Title VI. The resolution agreement 鈥渄oes not constitute an admission of liability, non-compliance or wrongdoing by the University,鈥� and the 91探花has agreed to five actions that will strengthen its commitment to timely and effective responses to complaints filed by students, faculty and staff.鈥�