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This week’s discovery of seven planets around a distant star has a connection right here at the University of Washington. The star is called TRAPPIST-1 and the scientist is Eric Agol.

UW professor Quintard Taylor is blowing students’ minds in class and with his website devoted to black history.

Cluster, their concept which received $85,000 and Amazon product development support, is an online suite of composition tools using comics narratives to teach effective, situated writing.

In April, thousands of scientists will take to the streets to rally on behalf of publicly funded, openly communicated, evidence-based research.

When we feel something too hot or cold, our senses register pain. But why? And what’s causing it? 

African Americans make up 7 percent of American college and university faculty. Chanda Prescod-Weinstein, a theoretical physicist at the UW, is featured.

Why does female genital mutilation remain so entrenched in parts of the globe? Bettina Shell-Duncan, professor of anthropology at UW, is quoted.

President Trump has tweeted about ISIS since 2014, claiming that he alone can fix this problem. Michael Degerald, doctoral candidate in Middle East studies at UW, weighs in.

Days before Trump's inauguration, Jack Turner, associate professor of poli-sci, noticed that one of his students was upset after she'd seen neo-Nazi recruitment flyers outside.

Adam Summers, professor of biology at UW's Friday Harbor Laboratories, writes in The Journal of the San Juan Islands about his project called #ScanAllFish.