• UW event unveils new wonders of the night sky

    Astronomers and skywatchers alike gathered Monday at the UW to see the first colorful images from the world's largest digital camera, discoveries that are expected to revolutionize the field of astronomy. The UW's Željko Ivezić and Mario Juric, both professors of astronomy, and Sam Charney, a student at the UW, are quoted.

    06/24/2025 | The Seattle Times
  • Mount Rainiers glaciers are melting whats at stake?

    Once an eight-mile network of caves with an entrance in the lower part of Paradise Glacier, the Paradise ice caves were the most-visited tourist spot for decades before glacial melting caused large chunks of ice to begin to fall from the ceiling, endangering visitors and pushing officials to close access. Now, the caves are gone. Janneke Hille Ris Lambers, affiliate professor of biology at the UW, is quoted.
    06/23/2025 | Tacoma News Tribune
  • Vera Rubin telescope quickly found 1,200 new asteroids

    The Vera C. Rubin Observatory is expected to find millions of unknown objects in our solar system, and perhaps even a mysterious Planet Nine. Mario Juri, professor of astronomy at the UW, is quoted.
    06/23/2025 | The New York Times
  • UW astronomers help power up telescope featuring worlds largest digital camera to map the night sky

    Perched high on a ridge in the South American Andes, a new observatory aims to revolutionize our understanding of the cosmos and unravel some of the mysteries it holds. Featuring the worlds largest digital camera, the Vera C. Rubin Observatory will spend the next 10 years constantly surveying and recording time-lapse movies of the stars, galaxies, asteroids and other objects moving across the southern hemisphere. Mario Juri, professor of astronomy at the UW, is interviewed.
    06/23/2025 | Oregon Public Broadcasting
  • Rubin Observatory makes its debut and registers first discoveries

    After more than 20 years of planning and construction, astronomers celebrated the release of the first images from the Vera C. Rubin Observatory today and also registered hundreds of the first discoveries from the worlds newest eye on the sky. Mario Juri, professor of astronomy at the UW, is quoted.
    06/23/2025 | GeekWire
  • UW helps bring the cosmos into focus as the Vera C. Rubin Observatory unveils a new glimpse into the solar system

    A new era of astronomy and astrophysics began Monday when the first images captured by the NSFDOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory were released, demonstrating the extraordinary capabilities of the new telescope and the worlds largest digital camera.
    06/23/2025 | UW News
  • Satellite streaks: Can the huge new Vera Rubin Observatory function in the megaconstellation age?

    When astronomers first dreamt up the Vera Rubin Observatory in the 1990s, the sky above the Chilean Cerro Pachn, where the star-observing machine was to be located, looked different than it does today. Meredith Rawls, a research scientist of astronomy at the UW, is quoted.
    06/18/2025 | Space
  • College of Arts & Sciences Students Recognized in the 2025 Husky 100

    The College of Arts & Sciences celebrates undergraduate and graduate students from across all four divisions, who are recognized for making the most of their time at the UW. 

    06/12/2025 | 2025 Husky 100
  • Ways of Knowing Episode 5: Abstract Pattern Recognition, or Math

    Imagine an art class where you only did paint by numbers, or a music class where you werent allowed to play a song until you practiced scales for 20 years. This is often what its like to take a math class, where students spend most of their time learning to solve problems that have already...
    06/05/2025 | UW News
  • Simulation predicts a bonanza of solar system discoveries

    A new type of computer simulation predicts that the Vera C. Rubin Observatory in Chile will discover millions of previously undetected objects in the solar system over the course of the coming decade. Mario Juri, professor of astronomy at the UW, is quoted.
    06/04/2025 | GeekWire
  • Those little red hummingbird feeders are driving the bird's evolution

    Alejandro Rico Guevara is one of the foremost researchers on hummingbird bills. He has spent years studying how hummingbirds use their beaks to feed and fight. But his latest research looked at how human actions seem to be driving a high-speed example of evolution in hummingbird bills.Rico-Guevara, assistant professor of biology at the UW and curator of birds at the UW Burke Museum, is interviewed.
    06/04/2025 | KUOW
  • Millions of new solar system objects to be found and filmed in technicolor studies predict

    A group of astronomers from across the globe, including a team from the University of Washington and led by Queens University Belfast, have revealed new research showing that millions of new solar system objects will be detected by a brand-new facility, which is expected to come online later this year.
    06/03/2025 | UW News
  • Muon g-2 announces most precise measurement of the magnetic anomaly of the muon

    On June 3, scientists working on the Muon g-2 experiment (pronounced "mew-on gee-minus-two") released the third and final measurement of the muon magnetic anomaly. This result agrees with the published results from 2021 and 2023 but with a much better precision of 127 parts per billion, surpassing the original experimental design goal of 140 parts per billion.
    06/03/2025 | UW News
  • Tracking Comets, and Other Celestial Adventures

    Using a powerful research telescope, astronomy and physics major Max Frissell identified a never-before-seen active comet. Now he’s hooked.

    June 2025 Perspectives
  • A Seattle school banned smartphones here's what happened

    Nine months ago, the Seattle school implemented one of the strictest phone bans in the citys public school district, requiring its 755 students to lock up their devices in pouches for the school day. Luca Magis-Weinberg, assistant professor of psychology at the UW, is quoted.
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