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PARENTING IN PRISON

Through the Partnership for Healthy Parenting, UW Speech & Hearing Sciences faculty and students help incarcerated birth parents build strong relationships with their babies. 

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INCLUSION IN ACTION

The UW’s Haring Center for Inclusive Education helps schools create classrooms where students with a range of abilities learn and thrive together.

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COMING FULL CIRCLE

As a UW student and Alaska Native, Sherri Berdine, ’08, found support in the University’s Indigenous community. She now leads the way as UW director of tribal relations.

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Capstone
collaborations

The Industry Capstone Program pairs UW engineering students with companies, nonprofits and government to tackle real-world engineering challenges.

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News & Events

Two researchers collect data in a snow-covered area.
Climate Change

Managing forests with wildfires, snowpack in mind

What if there was a wildfire prevention strategy that could also help preserve the snowpack? This question has sparked the latest phase of research among a team of scientists from the UW who are working to safeguard Washington’s vulnerable water supply.

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Campus in bloom in spring
Rankings

UW among top 20 in the world, No. 3 in US publics

The University of Washington is No. 18 in the world — and No. 3 among U.S. public universities — on the 2023 Academic Ranking of World Universities.

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UW and the Community

How to protect health in extreme heat

A team of UW researchers from the Department of Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences and UW Medicine is leading collaborative research, creating new tools and building partnerships to help Washington and the Pacific Northwest get ready for a hotter future.

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Fast Facts

Did you know?

There are nearly 300 specialized research centers at the UW.

Honors & Awards

7 uw faculty have won the nobel prize