UW and the Community

As King County officials work through the budget process, they are engaged in deciding the future of a restorative justice program diverting youth from the criminal legal system. Sarah Cusworth Walker, research professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences in the UW School of Medicine and Katherine Beckett, professor of sociology and of law, societies and justice at the UW, are quoted.

In the wake of One Ocean Week Seattle, participating University of Washington researchers share highlights, connecting the weeks events to ongoing efforts to understand and protect marine ecosystems and coastal communities.

Discovered in Kansas, this clam is already going viral in Seattle.

Henry M. Jackson, a successful congressman and the namesake of UW’s Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies, was a strong advocate of the importance of international studies.

Seattleite Mary Brunkow said she was astonished when she learned she and two scientist colleagues had won the 2025 Nobel Prize for medicine or physiology. But based on her career accomplishments in medical research, she shouldnt have been. Brunkow earned a bachelors degree in molecular and cellular biology from the UW.

Tuli Lodge is the latest social sauna to pop up in the Seattle area in recent years, following places like Bywater Sauna and Wild Haus Floating Saunas. Together, they are taking a page from Nordic tradition and turning the sauna into a communal hub to socialize and meet new people all for the cost of a couple of drinks. Kim Kraft, assistant teaching professor of Swedish and Gabrielle Martinez, an undergraduate student at the UW, are quoted

The Multicultural Alumni Partnership is proud to present the 2025 community and student MAP awardees.

The Department of History is saddened by the death of Professor Emeritus Quintard Taylor, who passed away September 21, 2025. A renowned scholar of Black history, Taylor joined the department in 1999 and retired from teaching in 2018. He continued to research and write on African American history following his retirement, devoting particular attention to the award-winning website that he founded, BlackPast.org, the world’s largest online encyclopedia dedicated to Black history.

Welcome to our second Halloween installment, where we ask movie buffs Champ Ensminger and Ungsan Kim what movies they recommend if you like a scary fix for the holiday. Kim, assistant professor of Asian cinema at the UW, is interviewed.

Come curious. Leave inspired. We invite you to connect with us this November through a rich and varied schedule of more than 30 events, exhibitions, podcasts, and more. From chamber opera premieres and public lectures to Indigenous storytelling and poetry celebrations, theres something to spark every curiosity. Expect boundary-pushing performances, thought-provoking dialogues on memory and...

"Alternative undergraduate physics courses expand access to students and address socioeconomic barriers that prevent many of them from entering physics and engineering fields," write Suzanne White Brahmia, associate professor of physics at the UW, and Geraldine L. Cochran.

"These are not abstract debates. They cut to the marrow of how we live in a city where the Black share of the population has dwindled, where rising housing costs shove families south to Tukwila and Federal Way, where wealth gaps mean our elders have fewer cushions and our kids fewer chances. Representation matters, yes. But what does it mean when symbolic victories don't lead to material change?" writes columnist Marcus Harrison Green. LaShawnDa Pittman, associate professor of American ethnic studies at the UW, is quoted.

Mary Brunkow, a Seattle scientist who earned a bachelors degree in molecular and cellular biology from the UW, is one of three scientists awarded this years Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.

The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences on Tuesday awarded the 2025 Nobel Prize in Physics jointly to John Clarke, Michel H. Devoret and John M. Martinis, for the discovery of macroscopic quantum mechanical tunneling and energy quantization in an electric circuit. Clarke, a professor emeritus of physics at the University of California, Berkeley, collaborates with the Axion Dark Matter Experiment at the University of Washington.

The Nobel Assembly at the Karolinska Institute on Monday awarded the 2025 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine jointly to Mary E. Brunkow an alum of the University of Washington along with Frederick J. Ramsdell and Shimon Sakaguchi “for groundbreaking discoveries concerning peripheral immune tolerance that prevents the immune system from harming the...