About 5,000 graduates, a record number, are expected to attend the University of Washington commencement ceremonies in Seattle on June 9. President Michael K. Young will officiate.
The virtual teaching of health professionals translates to better asthma care for patients.
UW doctoral candidate Tim Wright sets students off to explore monuments of the Pacific Northwest in his unique class, "Fact or Fiction: Historical Monuments of the Pacific Northwest."
Beth Kolko's experimental course takes its cue from the hacker community, helping students of any major get a taste of what it means to build software and hardware.
The University of Washington is offering three new undergraduate summer certificate programs this year covering topics including business essentials, database management and localization.
University of Washington undergraduates will showcase their civic engagement projects at the annual Spring Celebration of Service and Leadership, from 4 to 6 p.m. Friday, May 11 on the second floor of Kane Hall.
When tooth-decaying bacteria are on the loose, destroy those oozing biofilms in a interactive School of Dentistry game.
Join us for an evening on women's health. Listen to talks, check your blood pressure, pick up educational materials, ask questions and be pampered.
A look at the new book "Furniture Studio: Materials, Craft, and Architecture," written by Jeffrey Ochsner, professor of architecture, published by University of Washington Press.
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.
The fourth Environmental Innovation Challenge was the biggest yet. The winning team proposes to replace concrete lane dividers with ones made from recycled rubber tires. Other student teams presented their prototypes for emergency shelters, rooftop gardens, nonstick cookware and other green businesses.
In case scenarios, medical, nursing, and pharmacy students learned how to tell a patient's family that a serious error has occurred.
Students want better wireless and electrical connections on campus, while faculty would like more consistent and more flexible configurations of classroom technology, a new survey shows.
UW graduating medical students -- along with newly minted M.D.s across America -- learned March 16 where they will do their residency training.
Social justice, climate change, mental health, and marginalized populations will top the agenda.
Over the next three years, a team of UW students will convert a 2013 Chevy Malibu into a fuel-efficient, low-emissions vehicle that still meets consumer demands for a driver-friendly car. The UW is one of 15 schools participating in the EcoCAR 2 contest, sponsored by General Motors and the U.S. Department of Energy.
The Design Help Desk offers scientists a chance to meet with a student who can help them create more effective figures, tables and graphs. This visual equivalent of a Writing Help Desk is also a study on how to teach data visualization.
This week, students in Karen Cheng’s Art 377 class, Marks and Symbols, have been studying type fonts with French typeface master Jean François Porchez — and even creating their own fonts. The students were asked to bring in photographs of font designs they had seen around Seattle, and then design complete fonts from those beginnings.
Design should begin this spring, with construction scheduled to start in the summer of 2013, for Intellectual House, a longhouse-style facility on the University of Washington campus that will be a resource for the university, tribal and surrounding communities.
Chantel Prat, a UW assistant professor of psychology, uses her pet dog "Cocco" to demonstrate learning in a psychology 101 class.
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