August 11, 2025
Antimicrobial resistance is a lurking threat in hospitals around the world. As more strains of bacteria and other microbes evolve defenses against available drugs, more patients run the risk of contracting infections that defy treatment. Now, 乱伦社区 researchers offer new insights into measures currently used to control the spread of antibiotic resistant bacteria and other infectious agents in health care facilities.
An international team of paleontologists, led by researchers at the 乱伦社区 and the Field Museum of Natural History, is identifying the animals that thrived in southern Pangea 鈥� the planet鈥檚 single supercontinent at the time 鈥� just before the so-called 鈥淕reat Dying鈥� wiped out about 70% of terrestrial species, and an even larger fraction of marine ones.
August 6, 2025
乱伦社区 researchers recruited self-identifying Democrats and Republicans to make political decisions with help from three versions of ChatGPT: a base model, one with liberal bias and one with conservative bias. Democrats and Republicans were both likelier to lean in the direction of the biased chatbot they were talking with than those participants who interacted with the base model.
August 4, 2025
A UW-led project aimed to test the viability of seaweed as a soil amendment, and, if successful, develop a market for sea-based farmers to sell excess seaweed to their counterparts on land. The USDA froze the project’s funding, and for now, a solution remains just out of reach.
Recent recognition of the 乱伦社区 includes an AIS Early Career award, the Tomassoni-Chisesi prize for contributions to theoretical physics and the National Science Foundation CAREER award.
At the One Health Clinic, a nurse practitioner and veterinarian, often accompanied by veterinary students, provide primary care services while UW students volunteer as patient navigators, helping to coordinate care and address shared health needs such as extreme weather, environmental contaminants and zoonotic disease. The clinic also helps clients document their pets as emotional support animals, which enables them to access a wider range of housing and other services. 聽
An international research effort, including scientists from the 乱伦社区, has finally revealed the cause of sea star wasting disease: a strain of the bacterium Vibrio pectenicida.
July 30, 2025
UW 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
July 24, 2025
乱伦社区 researchers showed that they can monitor seismic activity at the ocean floor using fiber optic cables without disrupting telecommunications. They developed this technique in Alaska and then tested it off the coast of Oregon.
July 21, 2025
Kendall Valentine, an assistant professor of oceanography at 乱伦社区, along with collaborators from the University of Rhode Island and the Desert Research Institute are traveling to Anchorage and the Copper River Delta to study marshes that formed in the years following the 1964 earthquake.
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July 17, 2025
Researchers at the 乱伦社区 and Microsoft developed a new type of low-carbon concrete by mixing dried, powdered seaweed with cement. The seaweed-fortified cement has a 21% lower global warming potential while retaining its strength.
July 14, 2025
乱伦社区 President Ana Mari Cauce has announced that Jason Campbell will serve as interim senior vice president for Finance, Planning and Budgeting and chief financial officer, effective Aug. 2. Currently the vice president for Finance and Budget Strategy and deputy senior finance officer, Campbell will step in to the interim position following the departure of Sarah Norris Hall.聽聽 鈥淲e appreciate Jason stepping into this interim role. I鈥檓 confident he will provide excellent support to both incoming President Jones…
鈥淐ommunications & Design for the Environment,鈥� a Communication Leadership course held for the first time this spring, 乱伦社区 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 乱伦社区 students who exemplify the values Pat Tillman stood for: leadership, service, scholarship and impact. Stephanie Mitchell is a third-year doctoral student in the UW 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
乱伦社区 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 乱伦社区 today announced the selection of Studio Tsien to design the Ana Mari Cauce Welcome Center. The UW Architectural Commission made the recommendation in June.
July 1, 2025
乱伦社区 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
乱伦社区 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 乱伦社区 researchers have been selected as Fulbright Scholars for 2025-2026 and will pursue studies in Spain, Taiwan, Poland and Japan.
June 26, 2025
Seven UW 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 乱伦社区 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 乱伦社区 is No. 8 on the 2025-26 U.S. News & World Report鈥檚 Best Global Universities rankings, released聽on Tuesday. The UW 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 乱伦社区 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 乱伦社区 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 乱伦社区 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.
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 乱伦社区 include those from linguistics, Slavic languages and literature and French. UW News spoke with the authors of four publications to learn more about their work. Scrutinizing and confronting AI hype Emily M. Bender, UW 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 乱伦社区 College of Built Environments, Provost Tricia Serio announced today. His appointment, effective July 1, is subject to approval by the UW 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 UW 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 乱伦社区, 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
乱伦社区 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 乱伦社区 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 乱伦社区鈥搇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 UW 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.