Creating Future Generations of Global Citizens

The UW helps students understand the growing complexity of our world and the demands of global citizenship. Expanding world views. It's the Washington Way.

Faster, higher each year: UW rockets fly again in Nevada

Rockets built by students of Robert Winglee, professor and chair of Earth and space sciences, pierced the Nevada sky once again in March, flying faster and 5,000 feet higher than last year.

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Amazing Students

The UW helps students fulfill their ambitions by exposing them to imaginative teachers and challenging experiences.

UW computer science students win national cyber defense competition
Jill Woelfer awarded Graduate School Medal
Testosterone low, but responsive to competition, in Amazonian tribe -- with slideshow
UW students invest their energy, ideas and cash in green projects

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Teaching and research are the core of the university. The people who carry out that work often change not only their small corners of the world, but worlds beyond.