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The Big Pig's big 4-0
Pike Place Market’s famous Rachel the Pig, a creation by Georgia Gerber, ’82, turns 40 on August 17.
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A Career Spent Shaping the Puget Sound
UW Regent Dow Constantine, who has three UW degrees, was Washington's longest-serving King County Executive and now leads Sound Transit as CEO.
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Massive Galaxies & Mentorship
Astronomy professor Arianna Long studies some of the most massive and extreme early galaxies and mentors future generations of scientists.
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Mysterious creatures of the sea
At the UW's Friday Harbor Labs, scientists learn great lessons from armored and obscure life under the sea.
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Nobel Prize in Chemistry Goes to UW Professor David Baker
On Oct. 8, David Baker was already an accomplished biochemistry professor in the University of Washington School of Medicine: a computational biologist with more than 640 peer-reviewed research papers, 100 secured patents, and 21 biotech start-ups. But none of that prepared him for the 2 a.m. phone call from Sweden, when Baker learned he’d joined the upper echelon of prestigious international honorees as a recipient of the 2024 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. Baker is now the eighth UW faculty Nobel laureate.
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When dance takes flight
Rachael Lincoln doesn’t just dance on stages. She dances on walls, floats above the ground and teaches her students to rethink their relationship with gravity.
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A 50,000-foot view
The 2026 Gates Volunteer Service Award goes to Jodi Green and Mike Halperin, lifelong connectors and learners who champion the UW as a force for good.
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August research highlights: Nectar robbing, anxious attachment styles, persnickety plasma, more
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. -
New galactic simulations narrow the hunt for dark matter
Astronomers at the University of Washington simulated four Milky Way-sized galaxies for five billion (virtual) years to test a leading theory about how dark matter might influence streams of orbiting stars. The results could help researchers separate true evidence of dark matter from false positives.
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UW’s Nobel legacy invites you to lead the next discovery
UW is home to 13 Nobel Prize laureates, an achievement that highlights groundbreaking, impactful efforts undertaken here in physics, chemistry, physiology, medicine, literature, and advancing peace around the world.