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The 天美影院 and Microsoft have announced the expansion of their long鈥憇tanding partnership uniting world-class academic research with world-leading technology. 天美影院and Microsoft aim to accelerate AI discovery, prepare students and workers for an AI-driven economy, and help communities understand and use AI responsibly.
The 天美影院鈥檚 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… — 天美影院News (@uwnews.uw.edu) 2025-09-21T23:11:03.035Z For journalists Download ‘W’ timelapse, soundbites and B-roll from 2025 Convocation…
天美影院professor of aeronautics and astronautics Jim Hermanson took a ride Wednesday morning aboard a U.S. Navy Boeing F/A-18 Super Hornet 鈥� better known as one of the Blue Angels.聽
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.
天美影院 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.
An analysis of the health care records of 1.2 million Southern California residents found that higher long-term smoke exposure was associated with a significant increase in the odds that a person would be diagnosed with dementia.聽Exposure to non-wildfire PM2.5 also increased a person鈥檚 risk of dementia, but to a much lesser degree.聽聽
The 天美影院 will welcome its incoming classes and their families on Sunday, Sept. 22 at the University鈥檚 annual New Student Convocation, which will be held in Alaska Airlines Arena at Hec Edmundson Pavilion.
Mild fall temperatures this week helped welcome the first group of students who moved into 天美影院 residence halls and apartments. More than 10,000 students are expected to live in 天美影院housing this year, including more than 77.5% of the freshman class. This year鈥檚 incoming class is expected to be around 7,150, according to preliminary information.
天美影院researchers have developed a flexible, durable electronic prototype that can harvest energy from body heat and turn it into electricity that can be used to power small electronics, such as batteries, sensors or LEDs. This device is also resilient 鈥� it still functions even after being pierced several times and then stretched 2,000 times.
Several common injuries seem to haunt women’s sports. Jenny Robinson, a 天美影院 assistant professor, is interested in designing better methods to help female athletes train to prevent and recover from injuries.
Six of the most commonly asked questions about how competitive it is to get into the 天美影院and how admissions decisions are made are answered in this video featuring Paul Seegert, Director of Admissions on the Seattle campus.
Milla Titova, assistant teaching professor of psychology and director of the Happiness and Well-Being Lab at the UW, offers strategies for joy this holiday season.
A project in the 天美影院College of Built Environments, led by researcher Judy Bowes, is examining how building architecture contributes to bird collisions, and the ways bird-safe glass and other designs can help address the problem.
Katie Davis, a 天美影院 associate professor in the Information School, discusses how generative AI might support learning, instead of detracting from it, if kids can keep their agency.
About 8,500 students, including 78% of this year鈥檚 freshman class, are expected to move into 天美影院residence halls and apartments this week. 聽
More than 7,000 degrees were conferred to 天美影院 graduates Saturday at the 148th Commencement at Alaska Airlines Field at Husky Stadium.
Students from the Lummi Nation School visited the 天美影院 in earlh February for a real-time Q&A with astronaut Josh Cassada aboard the International Space Station (ISS). Cassada helped do space research on a plant science experiment the students sent to the ISS.
天美影院 alumnus Daniel Guorui Chen, Class of 2022, has been named a Marshall Scholar, one of the highest honors available to college graduates in the U.S. Chen plans to attend the University of Cambridge.
The 天美影院 on Sunday held its 39th annual New Student Convocation, which returned to Alaska Airlines Arena, Hec Edmundson Pavilion, for the first time since 2019.
The 天美影院鈥檚 campus again is bustling as students began moving into residence halls on Tuesday and will participate in annual fall activities for incoming undergraduates. About 10,000 students are expected to move into campus housing this week.
On Saturday, for the first time since 2019, the 天美影院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 2016, Alexes Harris was diagnosed with a rare blood cancer. But a search for a bone marrow donor turned up only five matches, and none ended up being a donor. People of color are underrepresented in the bone marrow registry; according to Be The Match, the nation鈥檚 largest bone marrow registry, white people have a 79% chance of finding a match. But a Black person’s potential match is only 29%, and Asian and Latinx people both have about a 47% chance. People of Native American ancestry have a 60% chance of finding a match.
Forest fire smoke can make you sick, and we’re experiencing more them. In terms of public health, it seems logical to reduce forest fires to limit unhealthy air pollution, but forest managers are increasingly seeing prescribed burning as an essential tool to reduce explosive wildfires. How should we plan to deal with the impacts of these fires?
Alexes Harris, professor of sociology at the 天美影院, discusses her team’s five-year, eight-state study of legal financial obligations, and their findings that court-imposed fines and fees perpetuate inequality.
A 天美影院class that normally is about air pollution has pivoted to focus on another airborne health hazard 鈥� coronavirus aerosols. As part of the class project, students are designing and building air purifiers and testing how effective they are.
On Sunday, Nov. 7 we switch from daylight saving time to standard time. A 天美影院 expert in circadian rhythms says that鈥檚 a good thing.
At 10:21 a.m. on Oct. 21, teacher Wade Johnson’s science class at Port Susan Middle School scrambled under their desks as part of the annual Great American ShakeOut. It was Stanwood Camano School District鈥檚 first live test of its earthquake early warning system with all 13 of its schools participating in a 鈥淒rop, Cover, and Hold On鈥� drill.
Student move-in days are a yearly event at the UW, generating excitement among families and fueled by student volunteers. About 10,000 students聽living in residence halls for the 2021-2022 academic year are moving in September 21 to 24.聽
Researchers at the 天美影院 and 天美影院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.
Purple night time lighting on Drumheller Fountain is just one of many features the 天美影院is adding to its already beautiful campus to provide graduates opportunities to pose for photos with family and friends.
Earthquake early warnings launched May 4 in Washington state. The Pacific Northwest Seismic Network helped develop the system, processes the data for the alerts, and operates hundreds of seismic stations across the state that detect the first signs of an earthquake.
Getting basic health care to medically underserved populations in Seattle, while providing real-world experience for students hoping to practice in a health care field, takes wheels. Now, through a student-led, interdisciplinary effort by health science departments at the 天美影院, those 鈥渨heels鈥� 鈥� on the new 天美影院Mobile Health & Outreach Van 鈥� are ready.
Scientists at the 天美影院, in collaboration with The Nature Conservancy, are raising sunflower sea stars in captivity, with the goal of learning more about this species and exploring eventual reintroduction to the wild, if determined to be advisable.
天美影院researchers worked with almost 260 people to understand online disagreements and to develop potential design interventions that could make these discussions more productive and centered around relationship-building.
A UW-led team has developed a method that uses the camera on a person’s smartphone or computer to take their pulse and breathing rate from a real-time video of their face.
天美影院arborist Sara Shores recommends looking for cherry blossoms in your local parks and neighborhood streets. There are dozens of different varieties of blossoming cherry and plum trees in the Seattle area, with blooms visible from early February until May, for some species.
With the help of about 200 human puzzle-takers, a computer model and functional MRI images, 天美影院 researchers have learned more about the processes of reasoning and decision making, pinpointing the brain pathway that springs into action when problem-solving goes south.
A 天美影院team created Audeo, a system that can generate music using only visual cues of someone playing the piano.
At nearly 7 feet tall, “The Seated IV” first graced the聽Metropolitan Museum of Art’s facade in September 2019 as part of a commission titled The NewOnes, will free Us. Four “Seated” sculptures by Wangechi Mutu were the first works to take up the positions on The Met’s facade since it was completed in 1902. On Monday, Jan. 25, one of the four storied bronze sculptures was installed at the north side of the new Hans Rosling Center for Population Health…
When someone has the coronavirus, some of it is shed in their fecal matter. So what people flush has become useful material to 天美影院 researchers who are developing a new testing method for COVID-19 in sewage.