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When walking through a gallery, most viewers are drawn towards the walls.The new exhibition at The Jacob Lawrence Gallery, however, defies the typical arrangements. While the walls hold placards with information about the art, audiences are encouraged to inspect a piece from every angle, move around, listen, and even touch. “I will carry you over on my back,” the 2026 MFA cohort’s fall show, doesn’t use traditional means to convey itself to viewers, yet it leaves an impact all the same. 

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. 

The beloved raccoon, Jimothy, won over the hearts of Seattle residents and turned into a local celebrity featured in all aspects of city life, from Mariners games to street art. But what is the condition that captured our attention and hearts? Chris Law, an evolutionary biologist in the University of Washington biology department who studies mammals, previously spoke about Jimothy at the Burke Museum.

Meany Center for the Performing Arts kicked off its 2026-27 season in collaboration with the Consulate General of India in Seattle with an Oct. 2 performance from three-time Grammy winner and Padma Shree Awardee Ricky Kej. 

A University of Washington-led center for optoelectronics technologies that combine light and electronics brings researchers from 14 universities across the U.S. together with the mission to develop new materials to transform information technology with light. Founded in 2021, NSF IMOD has received a second round of funding from the NSF to continue its work for the next five years.

In a district shaken by deaths of 11 workers, Democrat Marie Gluesenkamp Perez faces a stiff challenge to keep her seat. Mark Alan Smith, professor of political science at the UW, is quoted.

October offers stargazers a packed calendar plus, a conversation about colliding planets and disappearing stars with Andy Tzanidakis, a doctoral student in astronomy at the UW and student director of the planetarium.

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.

"While so many of us were focused on fictional superintelligent machines that we were told could hypothetically cause human extinction, however, there was a more serious story being reported. A series of events almost got us to armageddon, not caused by rogue, superintelligent AI, but by government reliance on error-prone systems that are marketed by their manufacturers as being close to superintelligent," write Emily M. Bender, professor of linguistics at the UW, and Timnit Gebru.

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