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Compared to the private sector, the public sector has offered black and female workers better pay, job stability, and opportunities according to UW sociologist Jennifer Laird.

A small group of determined scientists can make big contributions to physics.

The juniors and seniors in Elwood’s GIS Workshop course are applying lessons learned in class to projects with local nonprofits ranging from food banks to criminal justice organizations.

The 80-million-year-old fossil is a partial left femur bone of a theropod dinosaur and is on display at the Burke Museum. 

Two University of Washington geography professors are leading an effort with what might be considered a staggeringly ambitious goal — to reframe how poverty is perceived and studied around the world.

The leg bone weighs 15 pounds, is 16.7 inches and is the first dinosaur fossil found in Washington. Much of the region was under water during that era 80 million years ago.

A fragmented femur bone hidden underwater for millions of years has provided the first evidence that a dinosaur once roamed Washington state.

Scientists have uncovered Washington's first dinosaur fossil, in a state park on the San Juan Islands.

Washington just became the 37th state to find a confirmed dinosaur fossil -- and it may be the last.

Washington State has its first dinosaur. Researchers at the Burke Museum and UW Biology say they excavated a weathered, 80 million year old thighbone from a beach on Sucia Island in the San Juans.