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The UW has a major initiative in the works to expand online learning exponentially over the next five years.

Five UW graduate students recently developed The Pivot Project, aimed at combating human trafficking. Their weapon of choice? Design. The project won the 2013 Design Ignites Change Idea Award and is a finalist in the Industrial Designers Society of America’s Ideas competition.

Black Cultural Studies students combined traditional coursework with community projects through a winter quarter collaboration with the Northwest African American Museum.

Through a national program, ten high school students spent a recent Saturday as physicists, analyzing real data from the world's largest particle accelerator and discussing their findings with scientists at a national lab.

The UW Wind Ensemble spent spring break in China, performing for appreciative audiences around Beijing, finishing with a memorable sold-out concert at the National Center for the Performing Arts.

Lillian C. McDermott has dedicated her career to improving physics education using scientific research methods. The American Association of Physics Teachers is honoring her for her contributions to the field.

Remembrance photography can provide grieving parents with lasting memories of their children's all-too-brief lives. Faustine Dufka explores how such photography can play a role in the grieving process.

Early newborn screening techniques developed by two UW chemistry professors are drawing interest from companies that could use them in tests distributed nationally and around the world.

Shawn Wong, director of the Creative Writing Program at UW, establishes the Red Badge Project, a class for former soldiers to write about their experiences and tell stories that will help them cope with post-traumatic stress disorder.

International human rights champion and Spanish jurist Baltasar Garzon will join the UW Center for Human Rights, housed in the Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies, where, in the short term, he will focus on contributing to the Center's History, Memory and Justice Project in El Salvador.