As part of the Artemis II mission, CELE alum Liana Wu helped send astronauts around the moon and back.
Author: Laurel Demkovich
Four UW undergrads receive Fulbright scholarships for teaching, researching and studying abroad
Four UW undergraduates received the 2026-2027 scholarships, joining three UW graduate students and about 2,000 students and recent graduates from across the country in receiving this year’s awards.
Annual spring CELEbration bridges civic health, community engagement and leadership for students
Hundreds of students, faculty and community members gathered at the annual Spring CELEbration to learn about how students’ work in community engagement, leadership and activism affected their academic experience and impacted the broader community.
AI, library checkouts, biodiversity and music: A glimpse at 2026 Research Symposium presenters
With more than 1,700 presentations across more than 220 majors, this year’s Symposium was the largest in the event’s 29 years.
Symposium 2026: Art and artificial intelligence
Lorelei Silbernagel started to think more deeply about using AI for art and the type of human connection that gets lost when only interacting with computer-made media. She decided to use her research project as an opportunity to explore these themes more deeply.
Symposium 2026: Forgotten instruments
The idea for Juan Posada Abal’s research project came from a trip to the basement of the School of Music. There, he saw the more than 400 instruments that the Ethnomusicology Instrument Collection had amassed over the years.
Symposium 2026: At-home blood tests
Finding a way to collect RNA from one sample could eventually translate into a way to use self-collected blood samples for diagnostics and disease treatment.
Symposium 2026: What is Seattle reading?
Daniella Maor and Karalee Harris were a part of a team of students and mentors that delved into the Seattle Public Library’s checkout data.
Symposium 2026: Bias in speech recognition
In her research, Nakigozi has spent the last year helping to archive the Sephardic Studies collection of recorded oral histories.
Symposium 2026: Biodiversity after timber harvests
Mia Ferrero-Lampron, Jacqueline Wu and their mentors at the University of Washington and the Nature Conservancy wanted to create baseline biodiversity data for these lands.