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- Do you wonder whether Pacific Northwesterners have an accent?
- Are you curious what your eyes reveal about your risk of Alzheimer’s?
- Do you know what your car’s worn tires mean for coho salmon?
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Featured stories in the latest issue
Saving real lives with artificial intelligence
Better treatments for cancer, autoimmune diseases, viruses and more are on the horizon, thanks to groundbreaking work with AI from the UW scientists at the Institute for Protein Design.
UW students build an award-winning race car
Working out of an engineering space known as “The Pit,” more than 100 undergrads from 11 different majors built a Formula-style race car from scratch for a national competition.
The UW ranks among the top 10 “Best Value Colleges”
The Princeton Review gave the UW top marks for student return on investment, placing it 8th among public universities nationwide.