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The new Chemical Sciences Building, which broke ground on September 30, has been designed to enhance chemistry research and teaching excellence at the UW.

Daryl Joji Maeda, the Katherine and John Simpson Endowed Dean of the College of Arts & Sciences, reflects on his vision for the College and the importance of a broad liberal arts education in the 21st century. 

UW Physics professor Matthew Yankowitz was named a Moore Foundation Experimental Physics Investigator, joining a distinguished group of mid-career researchers pushing the boundaries of experimental physics.

Dean Daryl Maeda reflects on his first months at the UW and charts a course for the future.

"I teach a class called Philosophy 118: The Ethics and Psychology of Persuasion. The students who sign up all want to become more persuasive, and some of them are headed for careers in marketing or commercial real estate. But most of them also want to persuade friends and family members, and they want to do that without being creepy. They want to avoid manipulative tricks and to preserve their moral integrity," writes Colin Marshall, professor of philosophy at the UW.

Lawrence Goldman, a teaching professor of chemistry at the University of Washington, has also been a member of the Lake Forest Park city council since 2022. While science came naturally to Goldman, his venture into civics was more serendipitous.

Explore recent research from the University of Washington: ancient capybara and palm fossils found in the desert, a window into the bottom of the food web, waves that go a different way, environmental advocacy in Colombia, the mechanics of blood clotting and a superconducting surprise.

New faculty books from the University of Washington include those from the Information School, bioengineering, mathematics, the Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering, and Earth and space sciences.

Only 70 of 15,000 simulated stellar streams stayed smooth, and the galaxy alone bent the rest with no dark matter in the model. The UW's Nora Shipp, assistant professor; James Davenport, research assistant professor; and Arpit Arora, postdoctoral scholar all in astronomy are quoted.

The American Astronomical Society named Emily Levesque, professor of astronomy at the UW, the next editor in chief of its journals, including The Astrophysical Journal. She takes charge in August 2027.