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Mary Childs, Walter Andrews, and Sarah Ketchley (from left)

Diary Inspires UW Publishing House

Faculty and students are digitizing historically valuable texts through Newbook Digital Texts.

Dan Fu

A New Tool for Studying Cancer Cells

UW chemists are developing tools to improve our understanding of cancer cells — and our ability to treat cancer.

Sutapa Basu, Johnna White, Velma Veloria, and Emma Catague

Anti-Human Trafficking Report

A Women's Center report addresses human trafficking in Washington state.

Karen Cheng (left) and Kristine Matthews

Reducing Trash through Thoughtful Design

An interactive recycling and composting station designed by a UW team will move to the HUB this summer.

Women of color face staggering harassment in space science

Forty percent of women of color said that they felt unsafe in their current job as a result of harassment about their gender. Read More at The Washington Post

Study shows high pregnancy failure in southern resident killer whales; links to nutritional stress and low salmon abundance

A multi-year survey of the endangered southern resident killer whales suggests that up to two-thirds of pregnancies failed in this population from 2007 to 2014. Read More at UW Today

Hidden Figures: Bringing Math, Physics, History, and Race to Hollywood

Aug 03

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Fast Facts The UW College of Arts & Sciences

English Ranks 3rd in US

UW English department ranked as the 3rd best place in the country to study. Learn more

Languages Taught

50+ languages taught. Learn more

Undergraduate courses

More than 6,500 undergraduate courses offered annually. Learn more

Grad Students

2,700 graduate students.

National Book Awards

2 National Book Awards for faculty

MacArthur Fellows

7 MacArthur Fellows

280+ performances annually

280+ performances annually. Learn more

Distinguished Alumni Award Recipients

Distinguished alumni: former Seattle Mayor Norm Rice, former Governor Christine Gregoire.

Distinguished Alumni Award Recipients

Distinguished alumni: artist Dale Chihuly, author David Guterson, poet Tess Gallagher.

Research Faculty

1,115 academic and research faculty. Learn more

Math Top 50

UW Mathematics department ranked in Top 50 worldwide.

Undergraduate pre-majors

14,800 undergraduate pre-majors (as of 2014).