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Surprise visit from Ellen!

“The Ellen DeGeneres Show” made a surprise visit to the University of Washington on Monday, and hundreds of students turned out to get a shot to be on national TV, wave signs and cheer on participants in a costume contest. “I would have gone to college if I had seen that place. That’s beautiful,” DeGeneres remarked.  Read more from UW Today and watch the segment here.

More top rankings for UW

U.S. News & World Report ranked University of Washington programs among the top in the nation in its new graduate school rankings. The UW School of Medicine regained its No. 1 overall ranking for primary care, and other programs in medicine, education, law, business and engineering were ranked in the top 26 in the country. Read more from UW Today.

Dino Day at the Burke

This Saturday is Dino Day at the Burke Museum. This event provides an up-close view of the Burke Museum’s paleontology collections. See and touch fossils, meet Burke paleontologists, try out a fossil dig pit, and much more!

Click here for more information on Dino Day.

Campus visit by Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor

On March 10, 2014, United States Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor will visit the University of Washington. Justice Sotomayor will be in Seattle to talk about My Beloved World, her memoir chronicling her journey from a housing project in the Bronx to her service as a federal judge and ultimately a Supreme Court Justice. Provost Ana Mari Cauce will interview Justice Sotomayor about the formative experiences that shaped her into who she is today. More information is available from Undergraduate Academic Affairs.