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Ideas with Impact

Washington's first university, the UW was created to serve and benefit the entire state. Here are a few examples of how the UW fulfills that promise.

  • Trouble in Paradise: Warming a Greater Danger to Tropical Species
    Posted 2008-04-30 13:49:06
    The Arctic has become a poster child for the negative effects of climate change, but new research from the University of Washington shows that species living in the tropics likely face the greatest peril in a warmer world.
  • Graduate students and Native American tribes will tap forests, farms for biofuels
    Posted 2008-01-28 12:32:05
    UW faculty and students in partnership with the Yakama and Quinault Indian Nations are launching a newly-funded $3 million program to transform local forestry and agricultural waste into plant-based fuels.
  • Science by Kayak
    Posted 2007-09-20 12:58:51
    UW undergrads and sixth graders test the waters of Lake Union.
  • Saving Alaskan salmon runs
    Posted 2007-07-01 13:39:16
    Why have Alaskan salmon runs stayed strong, while other fisheries have crashed? One crucial factor is the 60-year collaboration between UW fishery scientists and AK fishermen.
  • Engineering begins for ocean observatory
    Posted 2007-05-24 12:00:12
    UW scientists plan a network of underwater sensors that spans the Juan de Fuca plate off the coast of Washington and Oregon.
  • Assessing the impacts of climate change
    Posted 2007-02-02 12:30:29
    UW scientists played key roles in a major recent international study that outlines how climate change will affect on the world in the coming decades.
  • Super Trout
    Posted 2007-01-01 10:26:35
    UW fisheries scientist Lauren Donaldson's techniques and research developed superior trout and helped to make the first man made salmon hatchery in a large city.
  • El Niño
    Posted 2007-01-01 10:19:51
    UW scientists develop stronger understanding of the weather phenomenom known as El Niño
  • Global warming pushes the jet streams toward poles
    Posted 2006-05-25 13:37:22
    Shifting jet streams could have a major impact on earth's climate.