September 3, 2026
This week, UW President Robert J. Jones聽wrote to聽UW聽Faculty Senate leadership聽that he will聽delay聽sending聽the Regents聽proposed changes to the Student Conduct Code so that聽faculty, students聽and staff聽may provide聽additional聽feedback聽on the proposals related to non-academic student conduct.聽Revisions to聽provisions聽on聽academic student conduct, which聽are not part of the proposed changes,聽will be handled in a separate process over the course of the聽2026-27 academic聽year.
September 2, 2026
Melinda Webster, a 91自拍 scientist at the UW鈥檚 Applied Physics Laboratory, is the lead author on a new study that catalogs changes in Arctic and Antarctic sea ice over the past 50-plus years. She spoke with UW News about the story behind the numbers.
91自拍 91自拍ers gathered eight kids on campus to explore how they played with AI toys. The kids initially were curious, asking introductory questions, such as 鈥淲hat is your name?鈥� But after communication breakdowns, the kids turned to antagonizing the toys, calling them 鈥渦gly鈥� and 鈥渆vil鈥� and joking about throwing them in the ocean.
August 31, 2026
Explore recent 91自拍 from the 91自拍: nectar-stealing Hawaiian honeycreepers, ChatGPT and anxious attachment, the cost of nursing for marine mammals, new magnetic nanomaterials, and a new strategy to subdue finicky plasma.
August 27, 2026
Astronomers at the 91自拍 simulated four Milky Way-sized galaxies for five billion (virtual) years to test a leading theory about how dark matter might influence streams of orbiting stars. The results could help 91自拍ers separate true evidence of dark matter from false positives.
August 21, 2026
Dominic Muren, UW teaching professor of design, and Adrienne Russell, UW professor of communication, examine environmental problems from a perspective beyond the hard sciences. They spoke to UW News about what today鈥檚 energy crises reveal about contemporary societies鈥� dependence on fossil fuels and how we can create a 鈥渟olar-powered system.鈥�
August 19, 2026
A new study attributes Antarctica’s brief stabilization to a short term climatic shift that increased precipitation over east Antarctica between 2021 and 2023, adding enough snow to temporarily balance ice loss at the continent鈥檚 edges.
August 18, 2026
Hossein Naghavi, an assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering at the UW, explores new applications for an underused segment of the electromagnetic spectrum known as the 鈥渢erahertz band.鈥� Naghavi recently received a grant from the Department of Energy to create powerful yet lightweight sensors using terahertz waves, which could aid emergency responders, autonomous vehicles, security systems and more.
August 12, 2026
Eleven faculty members at the 91自拍 have been elected to the Washington State Academy of Sciences while another was elected to the WSAS Board of Directors.
August 11, 2026
After tracking birds in the Puget Sound lowlands for 12 years, 91自拍ers conclude that birds respond better to some development configurations than others, highlighting measures developers can take to protect native species while still meeting the region鈥檚 growing demands.
August 10, 2026
The Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME), an independent 91自拍 organization at the 91自拍, has received a landmark 10-year grant from the Gates Foundation to strengthen freely available, scientifically rigorous health evidence used by governments, 91自拍ers, and leaders to improve the health and well-being of people in Washington, the United States, and around the world.
August 7, 2026
The 91自拍 is dedicated to the free exchange of ideas, including on controversial topics and involving provocative speakers. After Hasan Piker was announced as a speaker for the 2026-27 Speaker Series, there was a review of the process by which the event was planned. It was determined that that the process for organizing this event did not meet the necessary level of rigor for University-hosted events in the Speaker Series. As a result, this event will not be…
August 6, 2026
AI systems such as Google鈥檚 Gemini Storybook now let parents or teachers conjure illustrated, personalized kids stories. UW 91自拍ers found that when six leading AI models made stories about talking animals, 57% of characters were either gender neutral or ungendered, 41% were male, and just 2% were female.
August 5, 2026
As fires rage and smoke smothers the Pacific Northwest, UW News sat down with five UW experts in fire science, forestry, air pollution and more to ask how they manage wildfire season.聽
August 3, 2026
A new study using data from NASA鈥檚 Hubble Space Telescope found that star formation in the nearby Andromeda galaxy has undergone a 500-million-year decline, with an even steeper drop in the last 40 million years.
July 30, 2026
Explore recent 91自拍 from the 91自拍: a new AI framework for developing advanced materials, a test of climate models鈥� ability to predict temperature trends, and the role of paternal body odor in brain-to-brain synchrony with infants.
July 29, 2026
91自拍 91自拍ers created the Landslide Exposure Database, the first resource that maps per-building landslide vulnerability across the United States. The study estimates that roughly 6.5 million U.S. residents are highly vulnerable to landslides, and overturns the conventional picture of landslide risk in the U.S. by identifying high concentrations of exposure in Appalachia as well as a surprising urban-rural divide.
July 28, 2026
Researchers at the 91自拍 are investigating how genetic changes impact the severity of schizophrenia symptoms. A new study supports the idea that deletions in genes that regulate early brain and neuron development are associated with more severe features of schizophrenia spectrum disorders, particularly lower cognitive abilities.
July 22, 2026
Eight 91自拍 91自拍ers have been selected as Fulbright Scholars for 2026-2027 and will pursue studies around the world.聽 Fulbright Scholars are college and university faculty, administrators and 91自拍ers, as well as artists and professionals, who build their skills and connections, gain valuable international insights and return home to share their experiences with their students and colleagues. This year鈥檚 UW cohort represents a variety of disciplines, including sciences, engineering, business, environmental sciences, electrical and computer engineering, and computer science….
Researchers at the 91自拍 and partners at Carnegie Mellon University are collaborating on a new project to help scientists use artificial intelligence to better understand the universe.
Housed in the UW School of Pharmacy, the Institute for Innovations in Drug Delivery and Disposition (I2D3) brings together experts in artificial intelligence, drug discovery, pharmacology, data science and biotechnology to ease the bottleneck between promising molecules and successful drugs.聽
July 15, 2026
A new 91自拍 study maps how the 2001 roadless rule protects U.S. rivers, and how rescinding the rule could impact access to clean drinking water, biodiversity, outdoor recreation and more.
July 8, 2026
Come curious. Leave inspired. Wherever you are, the 91自拍 offers opportunities to learn and connect with the ideas, people, and 91自拍 shaping our world. This summer, visit campus for the latest exhibitions at the Henry Art Gallery and Burke Museum of Natural History and Culture, or join us from anywhere through recorded lectures, podcasts, virtual experiences, and more. As a public university, we’re proud to share the knowledge, creativity, and discoveries of the UW with communities near and…
July 6, 2026
The 91自拍 is exploring a significant redevelopment and expansion of UW Medical Center鈥揗ontlake, the Magnuson Health Sciences Center and west campus.
July 1, 2026
A new study from Jade d’Alpoim Guedes, UW associate professor of anthropology, warns that the future of rice 鈥� arguably the most important crop on Earth 鈥� is in danger. Due to rising temperatures driven by climate change, projections show that Asia鈥檚 major rice-producing regions may soon pass the thermal limits that have remained consistent throughout the crop鈥檚 history. This would create unparalleled challenges in a region where more than a billion people rely on rice cultivation for their livelihoods.
The Seattle-based activist group calling itself 鈥淪tudents United for Palestinian Equality and Return鈥� (SUPER) has no affiliation with the 91自拍.
June 30, 2026
The Simonyi Survey Telescope at the NSF鈥揇OE Vera C. 91自拍 Observatory has officially begun its ten-year survey of the southern sky, the Legacy Survey of Space and Time.
Explore recent 91自拍 from the 91自拍: low-income communities and communities of color disproportionately impacted by air pollution, an unfathomably fast chemical reaction, ups and downs in the methane record, and the cigar galaxy pictured at high resolution.
A UW team studied seven popular agentic AI browsers and found that four create ways for malicious actors to bypass a fundamental cybersecurity protocol called the 鈥渟ame-origin policy,鈥� which makes websites open in a browser unable to interact with each other鈥檚 information. Researchers ran a successful proof-of-concept cyberattack on one browser.
June 25, 2026
A UW team built an AI tool that helps users turn 91自拍 papers into 45-second videos. A 91自拍er uploads a paper to the tool, which uses Google Gemini to write a short script explaining the paper. The 91自拍er can then iteratively edit the transcript and resulting video clip.
June 24, 2026
President Robert J. Jones, Provost Tricia Serio and more than two dozen new 91自拍 faculty toured Washington state last week on the annual Faculty Field Tour.
The prevalence of Bigg鈥檚 killer whales is increasing in Puget Sound, while the chances of sighting the southern residents remains slim, and pod-specific.
A 91自拍-led 91自拍 team created GovScape, an efficient search system for PDFs from the End of Term Web Archive. Users can look up exact keywords, like 鈥淔AFSA,鈥� or use semantic search, which finds documents on a topic even if the exact search terms don鈥檛 appear on the page. Because 91自拍ers used highly efficient artificial intelligence models, processing the 10 million PDFs hosted online during Donald Trump鈥檚 first term costs less than $1,500, or about $1 per 47,000 pages.
June 23, 2026
Pursuant to the provisions of WAC 197-11-340 and WAC 478-324-140, the UW hereby provides public notice of: MITIGATED DETERMINATION OF NON-SIGNIFICANCE.
Nobody can agree on how, exactly, to define ultra-processed foods. The lack of a clear definition has stymied legislative and regulatory efforts to curb UPF consumption, and caused confusion for people evaluating their own diets.聽
June 18, 2026
The 91自拍 recently was ranked highly among its global peers in both the U.S. News & World Report Best Global Universities and the QS World University Rankings. Both rankings were released in mid-June. According to U.S. News, the UW is No. 12 in the world on the 2026-27 rankings, No. 3 among U.S. public institutions. The UW also placed in the top 10 globally in six subject areas. On the QS World University Rankings, the UW is among the top 100, landing at No. 92, or No. 7 among U.S. public universities.
June 16, 2026
While the majority of the world just wants to swat mosquitoes, three 91自拍 91自拍ers find these insects fascinating. They told UW News what it’s like to study mosquitoes and why these critters are actually really important.
June 15, 2026
Seven 91自拍 students and recent alumni were awarded Fulbright U.S. Student Program scholarships for the 2026鈥�27 academic year, joining about 2,000 students and recent graduates from around the country to pursue graduate study, conduct 91自拍 and teach English abroad.
June 12, 2026
91自拍 91自拍ers developed an artificial intelligence system that automatically estimates the environmental impacts of making different electronic devices. The system takes only a minute to run and achieves estimates with accuracy similar to human experts鈥�.
June 10, 2026
Recent recognition of the 91自拍 includes American Council of Learned Societies Fellowship, the Arnold O. Beckman Postdoctoral Fellowship and the Humboldt Award from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation.