Supporting the Husky Experience
Student Experience
What is the Husky Experience? It’s all about discovering your passion, your place in the world — and it’s unique to every student at the ÌìÃÀÓ°Ôº.
Nurturing minds, opening doors
Diversity Equity & Inclusion
In South Seattle and south King County, the ÌìÃÀÓ°ÔºCollege of Education is partnering with the Road Map Project to close achievement gaps in schools — and open all doors for young learners.
Helping the body heal, feel and move again
Engineering
From the Ability & Innovation Lab to the Center for Sensorimotor Neural Engineering, the College of Engineering is innovating novel devices to help people of all abilities live out their dreams.
On the research track
Scholarship
Jennifer Smith, ’16, had been a high school dropout. Now, with the help of scholarships, the mother of three is combining her interests in history and horses with a passion for research.
Targeting cancer
Healthcare
At the vanguard of next-generation precision medicine, Dr. Pamela Becker’s work through the Institute for Stem Cell & Regenerative Medicine is taking aim at cancer.
Preserving the past, helping the future
Science
Join us as we go behind-the-scenes at the Burke Museum of Natural History and Culture. See fascinating items that aren’t on display, and learn how the museum manages collections in areas from fish to fossils.
A new reality for rehabilitation
Technology
Recovering from a stroke is an arduous process, but thanks to a group of ÌìÃÀÓ°ÔºPh.D. students, virtual reality video games could transform the way patients experience therapy.
Getting into shipshape condition
Science
For 25 years, the UW’s Thomas G. Thompson has conducted research in nearly every ocean on Earth. This year, the ship is being upgraded to extend its life for another quarter century.
Seeds of hope
Community
In the name of holistic mental health, Christopher Brown, ’16, created Growing Veterans, a sustainable farming organization that reconnects veterans to each other — and to life.
Studying sockeye salmon
Environment
Each summer, aquatic and fishery sciences professor Daniel Schindler and his students travel to Bristol Bay, Alaska to observe one of the most valuable fisheries in the world.
The unsinkable Concrete Canoe Team
Student Experience
United by a passion for problem-solving, ÌìÃÀÓ°Ôºundergrads are putting their minds — and paddles — together to build and race a canoe made out of concrete.
Digging into the past
Academics
Prehistory, meet Professor Donald Grayson. As featured speaker for this year’s University Faculty Lecture, he digs into the mystery surrounding mass extinctions at the end of the last Ice Age.
Defining undaunted
Athletics
From the Paralympics to Husky crew, blind student athlete Eleni Englert continues to blaze her own trail.
Husky globetrotter
Student Experience
From Brazil to Berlin, ÌìÃÀÓ°Ôºsenior Kainen Bell has trekked the world as part of his student experience. Now, he’s helping students who share a similar background make their dreams of traveling come true, too.