Research

Science fiction has come alive in our modern world. Current projects at the UW show that some literary fantasies will soon be reality.

UW associate professor of philosophy, Sara Goering, to lead team studying how brain-computer interfaces affect whether patients feel they are in charge of their own actions.

Institute for Learning & Brain Sciences study shows that parents who speak “parentese” can have a direct impact on their children’s vocabulary. 

A study by an international team of researchers, including from the UW, determines that carved stone tools were used in Asia 80,000 to 170,000 years ago.

Miha Sarani (BFA, 2015), an art history graduate, began the project after seeing news of the white nationalist march in Virgina and the lack of condemnation of white supremacy that followed.

Analysis from Professor of International Studies, Saadia Pekkanen

Wondering if we've got neighbors? UW astrobiologists are looking for signs of life elsewhere in the Universe. 

A doctoral student explains how one online hacker can be more powerful than 10,000 soldiers.

Kathryn Bunn-Marcuse, Assistant Professor of Art History, explains that there's no history of towering monumental poles being made by the Salish and other Puget Sound region tribes.

An international team of scientists, including some from the UW, have virtually reconstructed a Neandertal skeleton–shedding new light on the posture of ancient humans. 

UW archeologist, Ben Marwick, weighs in on a recent discovery.

Opinion piece by UW Department of History Professor, Margaret O'Mara.

UW physicist Jiun-Haw Chu named Packard Fellow for research on quantum materials.

As the discipline of American Indian studies approaches its 50th year at the UW, a new research center is in the works:

Stephen Groening, Professor of Cinema and Media, has studied how inflight entertainment might have unique effects on travelers.