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Rooted in resilience

For students who’ve been homeless or in foster care, the UW’s Champions Program offers support and a foundation to help them thrive.

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‘FISH IS A LIVELIHOOD’

Working with tribal partners, UW grad student George Darkwah and team created a satellite-based tool to protect the salmon runs crucial to Washington state’s Native communities, ecosystem and economy.

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Power builder

From the UW’s Evans School of Public Policy & Governance to national racial-justice leadership, Marc Philpart is helping build a new future through the Black Freedom Fund.

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Life Goals

He was a soccer-loving kid from Wapato, Washington — and now Luis Carmona, ’17, ’22, works with the Seattle Sounders’ and Seattle Reign’s RAVE Foundation to give kids better access to play.

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News & events

Portrait of Provost Tricia Serio
Campus Events

Watch the Provost’s Town Hall on Feb. 12

Join UW Provost and Executive Vice President for Academic Affairs Tricia Serio as she discusses the state of the University from an academic perspective and the singular role that public research universities — and the UW in particular — play in our society.

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In 2012 U.S. President Barak Obama presents a Presidential Medal of Freedom to physician and global health epidemiologist Dr. William Foege in the East Room of the White House.
In Memoriam

Dr. William Foege, leader in smallpox eradication, dies at 89

Dr. William H. “Bill” Foege, a 1961 M.D. graduate of the University of Washington School of Medicine who is credited with strategies that ended the spread of smallpox worldwide in the late 1970s.

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Dr. Douglas Wood is dressed in scrubs and holds an x ray of lungs to his chest.
University Faculty Lecture

A breath of fresh air: The science and policy saving lives from America’s deadliest cancer

Lung cancer kills nearly 125,000 Americans each year — more than breast, colon and prostate cancers combined. But Dr. Douglas Wood is changing that. Join the UW surgery professor and chair on Feb. 5 for a discussion about his work increasing access to early detection and creating more cancer survivors.

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Fast Facts

Rankings

The UW is ranked as a top 10 value public college by the Princeton Review 2025.

Honors & awards

8 uw faculty have won the nobel prize