UW stories

Seattle is reimagining and creating a living urban waterfront — building a healthy future for the city’s people, sea life, culture and economy. The UW has been part of the project from the start.

As the UW’s Brotherhood Initiative grows — and now welcomes a counterpart Sisterhood Initiative — students of color like senior Noah Stanigar continue to soar.

Pulling together to preserve the historic ASUW Shell House, once home to the famed ‘Boys in the Boat.’

MaKayla Woods came to the University of Washington to be accepted for who she was. What she found was a place where she could become her best self.

Professor Cecilia Aragon vanquished fear to become the first Latina pilot on the U.S. Aerobatic Team — and the first Latina full professor in the UW College of Engineering.

Zeke Augustine, ’23, has sifted through soil for microscopic fossils and helped dig up a Triceratops. The Burke Museum has been at the heart of it all.

Kelsie Abrams and the UW’s Burke Museum hunt for dinosaur fossils and solve mysteries in the Hell Creek Formation.

How five UW alums’ diverse career paths are helping improve our environment.

UW campuses burst back to life after 18 months of remote work and study. 2021 year in photos.

Find fresh inspiration in this new poem by MFA grad Ally Ang, ’21, brought to life in this video performance.

On a pivotal excavation in Montana, UW paleontologists, students and volunteers uncovered clues that shine light on the age of the dinosaurs.

Associate Professor Wendy Barrington is bringing a passion for health equity to her new role as the inaugural director of the UW’s Center for Anti-Racism and Community Health.

By learning together, students across the UW’s health sciences schools are preparing to work together for better patient care.