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Community engagement stories

Community engagement stories from around the UW


  • On-campus collaboration features real-world applications

    Students in water chemistry course support campus sustainability through water monitoring and outreach projects. For students studying chemistry, some level of hands-on learning is generally a given. Lab work is an essential part of the subject, and students can often expect opportunities to don a pair of goggles and recreate the chemical reactions they’ve read…

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  • How a UW-created sensor is making roads safer for the Yakama Nation and Washington drivers

    Washington state’s most dangerous intersection is where Larue Road and Highway 97 meet, just south of Toppenish. Two-lane HIghway 97 is one of the busiest north-south corridors in the state, second only to Interstate 5. Semitrucks carrying apples, hay and livestock turn right onto Larue Road to bypass Toppenish on their way east to the…

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  • Graduate students partner with city of Redmond in community-engaged capstones

    Students apply classroom learning to rent stabilization and climate change emergency preparedness In the Master of Arts in Policy Studies program at the University of Washington Bothell, students gain the skills they need for policy careers in various fields as well as across private and public sectors. They acquire these skills not just in the…

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