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  • New study challenges old views on what’s ‘primitive’ in mammalian reproduction

    New study challenges old views on what’s ‘primitive’ in mammalian reproduction

    Which group of mammals has the more "primitive" reproductive strategy — marsupials, with their short gestation periods, or humans and other placental mammals, which have long gestation periods? For decades, biologists viewed marsupial reproduction as "more primitive." But University of Washington scientists have discovered that a third group of mammals, the long-extinct multituberculates, had a long gestation period like placental mammals. Since multituberculates split off from the rest of the mammalian lineage before placentals and marsupials had even evolved, these findings question the view that marsupials were “less advanced” than their placental cousins.
    07/25/2022 | UW News
  • 'Be Water, My Friend’: A close-up of the latest Bruce Lee exhibition at the Wing Luke Museum

    Bruce Lee was renowned for being many things: one of the greatest martial artists of all time, mentor, instructor, and all-star actor. He was also a devout, loving father, as well as a philosopher. Lesser known is that he was a student of the University of Washington, where he studied drama and philosophy. Beloved by our community, his legacy is now reinstated at the Wing Luke Museum in Seattle, where his personal collection of over 2,800 books and thoughtfully curated achievements will remain on permanent display for decades to come.

    07/25/2022 | The Daily
  • A memoir of Prague

    Study abroad programs are back, and with them comes the opportunity to become studious explorers in a new location. To see what adventures might await you on your own trip, join photographer Claire McCreery as she walks us through her time in the Czech Republic with the Comparative History of Ideas program, "History, Memory, and Human Rights in Central Europe.”

    07/25/2022 | The Daily
  • Novel HIV combination therapies could prevent viral escape and rebound

    Novel HIV combination therapies could prevent viral escape and rebound

    New research by scientists at the University of Washington, the Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self-Organization and the University of Cologne indicates that carefully designed cocktails of broadly neutralizing antibodies could help treat HIV while minimizing the risk of the virus evolving to “escape” treatment.
    07/22/2022 | UW News
  • POET LAUREATE: ADA LIMÓN

    The 1998 drama graduate receives the nation's highest poetry honor.

    07/22/2022 | University of Washington Magazine
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    Our Faculty's Resilience and Brilliance

    "Our faculty continue to make significant contributions to their fields despite the pandemic, and they welcome students to join them in this important work," writes Dean Dianne Harris.

    07/22/2022 | College of Arts & Sciences
  • The Return of the Marcoses

    "The level of support in the Philippines for Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jr. cannot be explained by social media disinformation or sheer coercion alone," writes Vincente Rafael, Professor in the Department of History.

    07/21/2022 | The New York Review
  • Seven UW faculty members elected to the Washington State Academy of Sciences

    Seven UW faculty members elected to the Washington State Academy of Sciences

    Seven professors at the University of Washington are among 25 new members of the Washington State Academy of Sciences for 2022, according to a July 15 announcement.

    07/15/2022 | UW News
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    Chemistry Professor Awarded $1.3M Grant from W. M. Keck Foundation

    The grant is led by principal investigator Joshua Vaughan, associate professor in the Department of Chemistry.

    07/15/2022 | College of Arts & Sciences
  • New faculty books: Threats to U.S. democracy, early history of gay rights, and more

    New faculty books: Threats to US democracy, early history of gay rights, and more

    Federalism, queer history, the impact of the Russian Revolution on Jewish communities, and the evolution of Filipinx American studies are among the subjects of recent and upcoming books by UW faculty.
    07/12/2022 | UW News