UW parents are invited to HuskyFest as a “thank you” for being part of the UW family. Connect with campus VIPs, and start the day off right by discovering the amazing things going on at the UW. Space is limited so register early.
Explore engineering through information sessions and fun hands-on activities, exhibits, displays and demonstrations.
Explore the Hungry Planet exhibit and join special behind-the-scenes tours.
Follow a series of clues and have fun getting to know the UW’s campus and fascinating facts from its 150-year history.
In honor of our 150th anniversary, the College of Arts & Sciences Divisional Deans are showcasing a diverse offering of lectures, demonstrations, exhibits, films and much more.
The acclaimed Paris Guitar Duo — Judicäel Perroy and Jeremy Jouve — lead a guitar master class with students of Michael Partington.
Learn about the school’s general and specialty clinics, which provide quality, affordable dental care – on campus and open to the public.
Meet with representatives to learn about the School of Public Health.
Come and explore all the college has to offer with interactive and informative displays that people of all ages will enjoy.
Learn more and sign up or the UWB 7th Annual 5k Walk/Run raising money for student scholarships.
Check out the most sought-after view on campus, and learn about its full-service catering services for weddings, Bar and Bat Mitzvahs, life celebrations and more!
Meet the team of engineering, business,and art students competing in the U.S. Department of Energy- and General Motors- sponsored EcoCAR 2 competition.
Tour Poplar Hall, the UW’s newest green residence hall located on West Campus.
Build and race a model solar car while learning about renewable energy initiatives at the UW.
Climb the rock wall and test your muscle fitness or bring a friend and see who can reach the top first.
Learn more about the UW’s undergraduate and graduate housing and dining options.
Classic Parisian Hot Club tunes with a modern flair and expert musicianship for all lovers of the French cafe culture and Django Reinhardt.
A coloring activity and tissue paper crowns.
This activity is put on by the University Book Store.
Artist Beth Gahan uses corrugated plastic, vinyl and found advertising to create synthetic crystals that grow and expand within site-specific spaces.
Transform your plain old T-shirts by bringing them to the Pavilion to be silkscreened on-the-spot with an original artwork, for free! Artist: Cairo Gallery
Cut-paper extraordinaire Celeste Cooning is transforming spaces around the country with her massive hanging installations.
A playful take on the great sea giant, constructed with steel, lace and porcelain by UW grad Marni Dworkin.
Come kick back and enjoy a self-published magazine, “zine” as the cool kids say, or get your hands dirty and make your own at the craft table.
Installation trio Hens & Chicks combine forces to create one-of-kind masterpieces in all shapes and sizes.
A variety of artists and methods collide in looped animated shorts, with subjects ranging from the everyday routine to the absolutely absurd.
Join the more than 8,000 people supporting this annual cultural and art celebration — the largest student-run campus event. Admission is free.
See and touch objects from the collections and get to know the Burke Museum.
A conference to celebrate the UW’s history of student activism, including workshops on campus organizing strategies and tactics, a panel of UW Alumni, and keynote speakers.
Limited to the first 25 guests, visitors will learn about plants of all types: carnivorous, orchids, cacti and some you’ll know by smell.
Are individuals responsible for their carbon emissions? We will address the complexity of this question and attempt to answer it.
Student-guided tours combine knowledge of our historic campus with information about the student experience. Advance registration is required.
A film by Harlan Pietz and Lily Katz exploring the scientific method and its place in our society including an interview with Jeremy Littell, a climate scientist working at UW.
A film by Tristan Huber and Jean Luc Jackson exploring the different topics and questions relating to the intersection of religion and ethics, and medicine.
The Student Philanthropy Education Program gives students an in-depth look at the fund-raising operations at the UW and builds awareness about the role philanthropy plays at the UW.
A panel of career professionals offer advice for today’s effective résumés and job searching. Q & A to follow.
Visit Seattle’s oldest art museum with the newest art and ideas. Guides will lead free tours of the galleries.
Learn more about the Class of 2012 Purple & Gold Forever Fund, which will fund, manage and sustain a student-led annual Homecoming celebration in Red Square.
Through chalk art, the pavement around Mary Gates Hall will come alive with stories of the evolution of libraries, phones and computers.
Examine the early roots of the computing industry through this collection of Digital Equipment Corp. mainframes and microcomputers.
Meet him on Red Square during HuskyFest!
Instrumental dream sequence soundtracks riding the line between free-form ambiance and melody driven pop.
Renowned poet and pie enthusiast Kate Lebo, a current MFA in creative writing candidate at UW, serves up her delicious pies and equally tasty poems for free!
Our discussion will be inspired by a famous children’s book filled with philosophical puzzles. Participants of all ages welcome!
A gloriously humorous essay reading by Mountford, who graduated from the UW with his MFA in creative writing in 2006 and debuted his first novel last year, A Young Man’s Guide to Late Capitalism.
Multi-year website development and research initiative by Ryan Burns that seeks to use new mapping technologies to teach young people technological skills, civic engagement and spatial histories.
What do Tristan Tzara, Tom Stoppard, and Shakespeare have in common? We’ll use these authors, scissors and a hat to talk about poetry and the nature of art.
Performances by School of Music students in Brechemin Auditorium.
Take part in interactive activities honoring International DNA Day focused on genomics in public health.
A loud, vibrant display of Brazilian drumming based on soulful samba beats traditional to the Carnival celebration.
Celebrate Odegaard Undergraduate Library at 40 years as we prepare for a major renovation. An exhibit will highlight Odegaard’s history in pictures, stories and video. Have your photo taken on the central staircase before it is demolished over the summer!
Putting faces to the architecture around us, view restored historic portraits of campus namesakes from Denny and Hutchinson to Gould and Suzzallo.
Watch a documentary-in-progress by two UW seniors about the grassroots, self-defense organization.
Discover the medicinal properties of plants, historical uses of Pacific Northwest native plants and the origin of many medicines used today.
Masters the poetic and experimental solo project, making unusual instruments sound oddly approachable.
An online reference guide dedicated to providing information to the general public on African American history in the United States and on the history of the more than 1 billion people of African ancestry around the world.
Presentations will be in the Kane Hall lobby.
Interactive facilitated discussion to explore philosophical limits to the medical ethics principle requiring respect for patient autonomy
Get the real story about the UW Admissions process and learn what the UW offers undergraduates. Advance registration required. Please note: Sessions are filling up rapidly so be sure to register early.
Art | Art History | Design students share their work.
Forward-thinking students and pioneering leaders create agents of change by talking about the future of business, culture and technology.
Shows are every 30 minutes and are limited to 40 people each. Register for free tickets.
UW students Praveen Kundurthy, Nancy Thomas, John Mehlhaff and Christopher Martin, run views of Kepler Satellite data including a display of light curves.
Understanding information is a way to understand ourselves. Learn more about information in its myriad guises, forms and uses.
See materials drawn from Libraries Government Documents, Special Collections and microform and newspapers illustrating the long history of protest in Seattle – from 1910 to the present.
Explore the architecture of UW Libraries, from the 1926 Reading Room in Suzzallo to the 1994 art installation in Allen Library.
This exhibition celebrates the 50th anniversary of Century 21 and highlights the planning, design, promotion and activities of the 1962 Seattle World’s Fair.
This activity is put on by the University Book Store.
Panel discussions on the Occupy Seattle and Tea Party movements. Keynote by Professor James Gregory, UW Department of History. Pre-registration required
Community, class members & student performances are featured in this video by Andrea Millie, sharing the impact that hip hop has had on their lives and communities.
Get to know Tucker, a scat detection dog, and learn about the important work he does with the UW’s Conservation Canine Program. Meet at the Drumheller Fountain Info booth.
Two teams of UW students exchange arguments concerning an ethical issue. Audience members will determine which team is most persuasive.
Meet him on Red Square during HuskyFest!
A staple on the local circuit, Stephanie’s sweet, lo-fi garage sound is sure to please.
Demonstration of “LegSim” by John Wilkerson, an introduction to a virtual legislature that promotes student-centered learning.
Dance Student Association Concert, $5 suggested donation.
Polyrhythmics is an all original eight-piece afro-funk and world beat orchestra comprised of some of Seattle’s finest rhythmic and melodic musicians.
Joshua Gailey presents an interactive presentation investigating the influence of Richard Wagner’s influence on Giuseppe Verdi’s opera Otello.
Student-guided tours combine knowledge of our historic campus with information about the student experience. Advance registration is required.
Landscape Architecture Professor Emeritus David Streatfield shares how to create and preserve the places we cherish. Registration required.
Limited to the first 35 guests, students working with the UW Farm will share how marginalized spaces can be transformed into productive gardens.
Join people from a vareity of disciplines to collaborate, innovate and build community at this “create-it-as-it-happens” conference.
One of the hottest new artists in the area, bringing killer vocals to soulful, danceable tunes.
Raucous local indie veterans MSHVB give the term “family band” a whole new meaning.
Innovative and collaborative in nature, this string collective is changing the perception of orchestral instruments with compelling arrangements of songs across all genres.
Celebrate Hawaiian culture with a traditional Hawaiian dinner, Hula & Tahitian dance performances, reggae concert and Hawaiian store. Dinner and Concert, $22; concert only $15.
Dare to Dream celebrates a program that believes everyone has the right to higher education. Keynote speaker: Sally Jewell, UW Regent and President and CEO of REI.