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From hosting student movies nights to supporting public events to studying the skies, we talked to two faculty members about how these discretionary funds raised on Husky Giving Day will impact their communities.

This summer, undergraduate students participating in the Summer Institute in the Arts and Humanities had the opportunity to experience the World Cup firsthand, from conducting fieldwork in downtown Seattle to playing pickup soccer games. Arts & Sciences students take us through their research projects and explain some of the broader political and cultural questions that swirled around the tournament.

Pike Place Market’s famous Rachel the Pig, a creation by Georgia Gerber, ’82, turns 40 on August 17.

UW Regent Dow Constantine, who has three UW degrees, was Washington's longest-serving King County Executive and now leads Sound Transit as CEO.

Astronomy professor Arianna Long studies some of the most massive and extreme early galaxies and mentors future generations of scientists. 

Explore recent research from the University of Washington: 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.

Rob Rhee, associate professor in the School of Art + Art History + Design, has been named a 2026 Joan Mitchell Fellow, a coveted prize for visual artists.

UW Communication graduate (and Tacoma restaurateur) Reginald Jacob Howell, ’16, has been taking his passion for barbecue to a national audience on “Pitmasters” from the Food Network. Can he and his best friend, Denzel Johnson, take home the $50,000 prize? Only one way to find out. UW Magazine profiles Howell, from his time at Cultivate, the UW’s campus-adjacent restaurant, to the opening of GRANN, his restaurant on 6th Ave in Tacoma, and more. Check it out!

UW English major Piper Sorensen ('27) shares why the humanities matter, particularly in our polarized society, and how studying the humanities has shaped her world view. 

After decades of refining her own artistic voice while navigating ever-shifting cultural, economic and aesthetic tides, Valerie Curtis-Newton is embracing her role as an elder states-artist, retiring from her UW role and looking toward the future.