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  • UW ranks 13th in latest college ranking

    UW ranks 13th among all national universities. The rankings are broken down by national universities, liberal arts colleges, colleges that grant master's degrees as their highest degrees, colleges that grant baccalaureate degrees as their highest degrees, and community colleges.
    08/26/2013 | Seattle Times
  • Nudelman family gives vast shell collection to Burke Museum

    Washington State Parks holds its Shellfest event at locations around Western Washington. Now, thanks to a recent donation, the Burke Museum can hold Shellpalooza if it choses.
    08/26/2013 | Tacoma News Tribune
  • Physicists pinpoint key property of material that both conducts and insulates

    UW physicist have made the first-ever accurate determination of a solid-state triple point in a substance called vanadium dioxide, which is known for switching rapidly from an electrical insulator to a conductor.
    08/21/2013 | UW Today
  • The Inspiration Inquiry

    Expanding the boundaries of knowledge in dance, theater and other performing arts requires research of a different stripe
    08/20/2013 | Columns
  • A UW Star is Born

    Actor Kyle MacLachlan reflects on Purple and Gold Roots.
    08/20/2013 | Columns
  • Susan Robb: connecting people and the wilderness

    A profile of Seattle multimedia artist and UW School of Art alumna Susan Robb. Next spring, Robb embarks on a nearly 3,000 mile hike and we're all invited to watch.
    08/11/2013 | The Seattle Times
  • Chemistry researcher beats stop-and-go traffic

    William Beaty, a research scientist in the chemistry department discovered what he calls "traffic fluid dynamics," while watching drivers interact on the 520 bridge.
    08/11/2013 | NPR
  • Regulating electron 'spin' may be key to making organic solar cells competitive

    According to UW Research, a polymer discovery could make organic solar cells more competitive.
    08/07/2013 | UW Today
  • Fifty years of ecological insights earn UW biologist international award

    The notion of keystone species, the loss of which can reverberate throughout the food web, is a concept taken for granted today but was unheard of when University of Washington biologist Robert Paine pioneered it in the 1960s.
    07/30/2013 | UW Today
  • How Univision became numero uno

    Ratings show that the television network Univision was the most watched network in the coveted 18-45 demographic for July. What does this news say about the growing Latino population in the U.S.? Associate vice provost and political science professor Luis Fraga weighs in.
    07/30/2013 | The Seattle Times