February 4, 2025, 9:02am Latest News
Robert J. Jones, chancellor at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign , will be the University of Washington’s next president. Read story
January 27, 2025, 1:12pm Latest News
Behind closed doors, the Board of Regents at the University of Washington and Washington State University have vetted candidates to lead schools with tens of thousands of students and employees. Read story
February 12, 2025, 7:39am Northwest
A federal judge on Monday blocked a directive to slash federal research funding to public universities and research centers throughout the country, a plan both the University of Washington and Washington State University say would have far-reaching effects on their programs and likely result in layoffs. Read story
January 17, 2025, 7:39am Latest News
The U.S. Department of Education announced Wednesday that it’s entered into an agreement with the University of Washington to ensure the university complies with federal civil rights law, after the federal agency reviewed its handling of dozens of discrimination complaints. Read story
January 12, 2025, 6:05am Courts & Crime
The landscape of street drugs looked a lot different when University of Washington research professor Caleb Banta-Green began his career in drug epidemiology more than 20 years ago. There were just seven illicit drugs he had to keep track of: cannabis, meth, cocaine, heroin, PCP, LSD and MDMA. Read story
November 4, 2024, 8:15am Northwest
The University of Washington’s class of 2028 is the most racially diverse in the institution’s history. Read story
November 2, 2024, 5:53am Election Free
It’s election season, and as falsehoods rain down like a monsoon, the “rapid research” team of academics at the University of Washington’s Center for an Informed Public has been scrambling to analyze it all. Read story
October 10, 2024, 8:13am Latest News
University of Washington School of Medicine professor David Baker and his biochemistry colleagues have had the audacity to think they can design complex molecules that function faster and more effectively than the ones created by Mother Nature. Read story
August 14, 2024, 7:55am Health
A University of Washington-led research team could receive up to $21.1 million as part of a federal grant aiming to reduce cancer deaths in the U.S. — a goal President Joe Biden has championed for years and revisited Tuesday. Read story
April 22, 2024, 6:00am College
Questions swirled about the University of Washington’s Title IX investigation process after the school’s football player Tylin “Tybo” Rogers was allowed to continue playing while Seattle police investigated him for the alleged rape of a woman last fall. Read story