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UW team shows a way to teach babies second language if parents only speak one
Researchers from the University of Washington trained and sent 16 tutors to help infants in Spain learn English as a second language. -
Artifacts suggest humans arrived in Australia earlier than thought
A team of researchers, including a faculty member and seven students from UW, have found artifacts in Australia that indicate humans arrived there about 65,000 years ago.
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A New Tool for Studying Cancer Cells
Future cancer patients may have Dan Fu to thank for their individualized cancer treatment.
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Malaria's Puzzling Variations in India
An international team is studying malaria in India, where malaria parasites are more diverse than anywhere else.
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Reducing Trash through Thoughtful Design
An interactive recycling and composting station designed by a UW team will move to the HUB this summer.
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A Teen's Diary Launches UW Publishing House
Faculty and students are digitizing historically valuable texts through Newbook Digital Texts.
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A New Tool for Studying Cancer Cells
UW chemists are developing tools to improve our understanding of cancer cells — and our ability to treat cancer.
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Bilingual babies: Study shows how exposure to a foreign language ignites infants’ learning
A new study by I-LABS researchers, is among the first to investigate how babies can learn a second language outside of the home.
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Women of color face staggering harassment in space science
Forty percent of women of color said that they felt unsafe in their current job as a result of harassment about their gender.
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From the Dean
Dean Robert Stacey on the importance of pursuing research.
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A better way to make drinks and drugs
Alshakim Nelson, a chemist at the University of Washington, in Seattle, and his team, have developed a new type of bioreactor.
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Study: Orcas’ failed pregnancies linked to scarce food
Improving salmon runs could help the endangered killer whales that frequent the inland waters of Washington state.
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Why do two-thirds of killer whale pregnancies fail?
The Southern Resident killer whales are a genetically distinct population, and they are considered critically endangered with only an estimated 78 individuals left.
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How Yellow affects your state of mind
Ever heard that if you looked at the color yellow for too long, you might begin to feel anxious or irritated?
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Q & A: Janelle Taylor on 'exemplary friends' of people with dementia
Anthropology professor, Janelle Taylor, started researching dementia about 10 years ago, after her own mother's diagnosis of dementia.