The University of Washington is ranked No. 13 in the world — No. 3 among public universities — on the 2017 Academic Ranking of World Universities, released this month.
While the UW has ranked among the top 20 universities each year since the ARWU was first published, this year’s ranking is the highest it has achieved to date. The UW ranked No. 16 for seven consecutive years before climbing to No. 15 for three straight years before landing at No. 13 this year.
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On August 29, join University of Washington Bothell and McMenamins Anderson School for the first of their free monthly Pub Night Talks. Dan Jaffe, UW Bothell professor and chair of the physical science division, will present his talk titled, “Planes, Trains and Mountain Tops: The Adventures of One Scientist and His Students Studying the Impacts of Humans on Planet Earth.” The event is scheduled from 7 to 8:30 p.m. at Haynes’ Hall at McMenamins Anderson School – 18607 Bothell Way NE, Bothell. Doors open at 6:00 p.m. and all ages are welcome.
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Join UW News and University of Washington astronomer Nicole Kelly Tuesday at 1 p.m. on Facebook for a live eclipse Q&A. You can ask all of your burning questions about the upcoming solar eclipse!
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Stay in the loop on what is going on in Spokane and Eastern Washington and the goings on at the UW Spokane Center. See the updates from Eastern Washington here!
Starting Aug. 12, the public can watch fossil preparation of the University of Washington Burke Museum‘s Tyrannosaurus rex skull “live.” Over the next several months, Burke paleontologists will carefully remove the rock surrounding the skull, slowly exposing the 66-million-year-old specimen. Discovered in summer 2016 in the Hell Creek Formation in northeast Montana, the skull is 4 feet long, weighs 3,000 pounds in its field jacket, is the first in Washington and one of only 15 reasonably complete T. rex skulls ever discovered. Read more from the Burke Museum.