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Stories and news about the undergraduate academic experience
UW undergrad named 2026 Rhodes Scholar
Congratulations to Shubhum Bansal, one of only 32 students nationwide to receive the award and the University鈥檚 38th Rhodes Scholar.
Unlocking the brain with the fruit fly
Undergraduate Mary Bun studies multitasking in fruit flies to offer valuable insights into disorders like Parkinson鈥檚 disease.
AI, library checkouts, biodiversity and music: A glimpse at 2026 Research Symposium presenters
June 8, 2026
With more than 1,700 presentations across more than 220 majors, this year鈥檚 Symposium was the largest in the event鈥檚 29 years.
Symposium 2026: Art and artificial intelligence
June 8, 2026
Lorelei Silbernagel started to think more deeply about using AI for art and the type of human connection that gets lost when only interacting with computer-made media. She decided to use her research project as an opportunity to explore these themes more deeply.聽
Symposium 2026: Forgotten instruments
June 8, 2026
The idea for Juan Posada Abal鈥檚 research project came from a trip to the basement of the School of Music.聽There, he saw the more than 400 instruments that the Ethnomusicology Instrument Collection had amassed over the years.
Symposium 2026: At-home blood tests
June 8, 2026
Finding a way to collect RNA from one sample could eventually translate into a way to use self-collected blood samples for diagnostics and disease treatment.
Symposium 2026: What is Seattle reading?
June 8, 2026
Daniella Maor and Karalee Harris were a part of a team of students and mentors that delved into the Seattle Public Library鈥檚 checkout data.