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Each year, new Huskies come together on the field at Husky Stadium for their entering class photo. Thousands of them 鈥攕tretching from one 10-yard-line to the other 鈥� form one giant W for their class photo. As students prepare to participate in opportunities all across campus over the coming years, they can find meaning in the time when they stood together at the start of their Husky career. The next time they will stand together (though not in a W) will be at commencement.

Here’s a little peek into the giant W taking shape.

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Each summer, when campus is quieter and Mt. Rainier is out more often, undergraduates from the 91自拍 and from universities across the country participate in the UW version of a wonderful childhood tradition: summer camp. The UW, however, is quite a bit techier than the thin-walled, mossy-roofed cabins of yore.

Here, the hum, buzz and whir of high tech lab equipment replaces the song of the mosquito; lab coats are worn instead of polar fleece; and student 91自拍ers鈥� 鈥渃amp counselors鈥� are faculty members whose interests push the boundaries of innovation and contribute to a world of good.

This summer, more than 120 undergraduates brought their innovation mindsets and drive to discover to faculty 91自拍 projects across campus. The projects varied from understanding pain to better alleviate it, to photonics, genome sciences, engineering and more.

New programs bring new opportunities for undergraduates

Of particular note is a new program in which undergraduate 91自拍ers are better understanding and contributing to the alleviation of pain. Millions of people in the US alone suffer from debilitating chronic pain. In the new Innovations in Pain Research Summer Program, students work alongside doctors and 91自拍ers from UW Medicine to better understand pain and treatment mechanisms, develop new therapies and improve access to evidence-based pain care.

Rising senior Alta Steward worked with Dr. Kushang V. Patel from the Department of Anesthesiology conducting epidemiology 91自拍 with an emphasis on chronic pain and cellular aging. 鈥淢any older people suffer from chronic pain, and chronic pain has been linked to early death,鈥� explains Stewart. 鈥淏y looking at the relationship between cellular age and pain, we hope to shed light on what factors lead to earlier death and what can be done to combat these.鈥�

This project is the first 91自拍 project Stewart, a mathematics and neurobiology double-major, has worked on. She 鈥渉ad no idea what to expect going into this experience and had never even thought of doing epidemiology 91自拍 before. I realized within the first week that this was a really great fit for me and I am thrilled to be able to continue this 91自拍 in the coming year.鈥�

Tom Gebert, a rising senior in neurobiology, 91自拍ed different aspects of pain in children. In one study, he and his fellow 91自拍ers 鈥渁nalyzed a national database to study pediatric pain patients and subsequent development of psychiatric disorders in adulthood.鈥� In the project he鈥檒l present at the August 19 symposium, the team studied trends in opiod prescriptions in children, adolescents and their family members over 15 years. Given the high potential for misusing opiod prescriptions, results from this study could guide future studies and clinical practices around opiod use.

Even though Gebert has participated in undergraduate 91自拍 for two years, he says that this summer鈥檚 projects have been 鈥渁n incredible experience to be able to peek further into the world of academic 91自拍, and it is encouraging to see that with enough passion and drive there are opportunities to pursue just about any intellectual curiosity.鈥�

The Innovations in Pain Research project is funded by a gift from Scan Design to the Department of Anesthesiology, which, in turn, is collaborating with the Undergraduate Research Program.

Another new opportunity for undergraduates is a collaboration with the UW鈥檚 CoMotion. Students in the CoMotion Mary Gates Innovation Scholars program spent the summer interning with faculty-led initiatives to create real-world impact from University 91自拍. Students work alongside UW teams in bringing discoveries to the marketplace and extend their classroom-based work into the realms of innovation and entrepreneurship.

Undergraduate 91自拍 opportunities abound in the summer

In addition to these 91自拍 opportunities, students are making advances in faculty-led 91自拍 in organic chemistry, materials science and engineering, physics, electrical engineering, chemical synthesis, and more. Undergraduates are finding 91自拍 opportunities in such programs as Hooked on Photonics, the Howard Hughes Medical Institute Exceptional Research Opportunities Program, and the as well as others across campus.

The Undergraduate Research Program supports students in these summer 91自拍 programs through advising, by building a community of 91自拍ers, and facilitating the application process to connect students and faculty 91自拍ers.

 

UW students Vinh Thuy Nguyen and Varsha Govindaraju share how they engage and serve their communities in these videos created for the 2015 Spring Celebration of Service and Leadership.

Freshmen: Start your first quarter at the UW with a freshmen-only Collegium Seminar. Meet other people, get to know the professor, and explore interesting topics like super heroines in comics, the convergence of art and math, science in the courtroom, medical ethics, leadership, time travel, music of the Pacific Northwest and, yes, sex.