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"What we're looking at is something like a settler colonial situation where an entire generation is lost," said Darren Byler, a researcher of Uighur culture at UW.

Margaret O'Mara explores the impact of a December 1968 computer presentation that came to be called “the mother of all demos” in an episode of a new podcast series.

Funding to support the teaching and study of world regions and foreign languages, and generate public engagement in international affairs.

Biology faculty and students will soon fill the UW's new Life Sciences Building along Stevens Way. 

Students in the Summer Institute in the Arts & Humanities dug into Seattle history and unearthed some surprises. 

The University of Washington opened the doors to a new Life Sciences Building that will transform learning, teaching and research for generations.

At the University of Washington, biology is the most popular STEM major at the Seattle campus, with more than 600 bachelors’ degrees awarded annually.

Expected to open in early September, the 207,000-square-foot building will be ready to host students in the fall. 

Take a look inside UW Libraries' Labor Archives of Washington — home to 3,000 cubic feet of materials — with labor archivist Conor Casey. 

Since 1968, Sandra Kroupa (BA, English, '80/MLib,'85) has worked in UW's Special Collections. As book arts and rare-book curator, she provides access to a vast collection.

For a team led by scientists at the UW, the 2-D form of one metallic compound — tungsten ditelluride, or WTe2 — is a bevy of quantum revelations. 

The U.S. Department of Energy has awarded an expected $10.75 million, four-year grant for a new interdisciplinary research center.

Listen to Dennis Donovan, adjunct professor of Psychology at the University of Washington talk about driving in Seattle and Seattle drivers.

Rod Crawford, Curator of Arachnids at the University of Washington's Burke Museum, debunks spider myths. 

UW Biology professor Dee Boersma weighs in on the alarming and overwhelming evidence of the penguin population shrinkage.