The Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµâ€™s 2026 incoming class reflects the University’s commitment to expanding access to a Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ education for students from across Washington and from a broad range of communities and backgrounds.


The Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµâ€™s 2026 incoming class reflects the University’s commitment to expanding access to a Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ education for students from across Washington and from a broad range of communities and backgrounds.

Recent recognition of the Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ includes the Camille Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Award, the Rosentiel Award for contributions to ocean science, and the 2026 Distinguished Community Engagement Award.

Recent books from Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ faculty and staff include those from legal studies at Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ Tacoma, international studies, political science, history and Asian languages and literature.Â

The Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ has again earned a prestigious recognition for the impact and importance of the connections faculty, students and staff have with local, regional and global communities.

Total enrollment is up across all three Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ campuses for the 2025-26 academic year, according to the annual census count released this month. Each year, the Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ conducts an official enrollment count after the start of the fall quarter. The total number of students across all three campuses is 63,727. Enrollment increased 1.1% to 52,316 at the Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµâ€™s Seattle campus, up from 51,719 in 2024. Total enrollment at Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ Bothell jumped to 6,361 students, up 4.7% from 2024….

Four Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ researchers have been selected as Fulbright Scholars for 2025-2026 and will pursue studies in Spain, Taiwan, Poland and Japan.

Seven Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ students and recent alumni were awarded Fulbright U.S. Student Program scholarships for the 2025–2026 academic year, joining about 2,000 students and recent graduates from around the country to pursue graduate study, conduct research and teach English abroad.

Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ President Ana Mari Cauce is the featured speaker at the Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµâ€™s 150th Commencement ceremony on Alaska Airlines Field at Husky Stadium scheduled for 1:30 p.m., Saturday, June 14.

For Valentine’s Day, Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ News asked 12 Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ researchers to share their love stories: What made them decide to pursue their career paths?

Three new faculty books from the Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ cover the recipes and culture of the world’s largest Syrian refugee camp, traditional ecological knowledge of Indigenous peoples and data science for neuroimaging researchers. Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ News spoke with the authors to learn more. Documenting history and rituals of Syrian cuisine When Karen E. Fisher was invited to Zaatari, the world’s largest Syrian refugee camp, she noticed that stories of the camp rarely included women’s voices. As she learned more about their…

Two Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ researchers are investigating how to mitigate the effects of climate change on common road pavements, such as asphalt and concrete.

The Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµâ€™s graduate and professional degree programs were widely recognized as among the best in the nation, according to U.S. News & World Report’s 2025 Best Graduate Schools rankings released late Monday.

This week, attend the Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ Pandemic Project’s Radical Listening Session to honor each individual’s lived pandemics experiences, head to Meany Hall for Garrick Ohlsson’s piano performance, celebrate Diwali with the Burke Museum, and more. November 7, 4:30 – 6:00pm | Sharon Stein, “The University and Its Responsibility for Repair: Confronting Colonial Foundations and Enabling Different Futures” | A Worlds of Difference lecture, Communications Building This presentation by Sharon Stein asks how universities can navigate the complexity of confronting the colonial…

The Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµâ€™s newest freshman class is one of the most diverse in the school’s 162-year history, and Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ Bothell and Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ Tacoma are welcoming their largest incoming classes.

The Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ has been recognized on two lists that measure impact on students and communities. The Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ placed third in the nation among public universities on the Washington Monthly 2023 National University Rankings, which ranks the school’s impact on its graduates and the nation. In a separate ranking, all three Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ campuses topped the state for best value, according to SmartAsset, a financial services portal.

The Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ today announced that PepsiCo will become its official beverage partner beginning July 1.
Recent recognition of the Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ includes the election of Andrew Meltzoff to the National Academy of Education, a lifetime achievement award for Dean of the School of Social Work Edwina Uehara and Ed Kolodziej selected as a Frontiers Planet Prize finalist.

The Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµâ€™s graduate and professional degree programs were widely recognized as among the best in the nation, according to U.S. News & World Report’s 2024 Best Graduate Schools rankings released late Monday.

Four new faculty books from the Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ cover topics ranging from inequality’s effects on health to fad diets to former German chancellor Angela Merkel’s legacy on gender equality.

Three new faculty books from the Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ cover a variety of topics: nightlife among Black queer women, hybrid warfare and Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, and decolonizing climate justice.

Connect with the Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ community every week through public events and exhibitions, summarized in this ArtSci Roundup.

Black womanhood and corporate branding, Indigenous mound building and volunteering for the Peace Corps are among the subjects of recent and upcoming books by Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ faculty.

As the academic year gets underway, the Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµâ€™s public campuses are again bustling and busy with students, faculty, staff and visitors. While the focus is on academics, research, learning and building community, on any given day, there may be safety challenges and individuals who feel unsafe for any number of reasons.

On Saturday, for the first time since 2019, the Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ held in-person Commencement ceremonies at Alaska Airlines Field at Husky Stadium where the University conferred degrees on the Class of 2022. On Sunday, it welcomed alumni from the 2020 and 2021 school years for a Return to Husky Stadium Graduation Celebration.

In the fall of 2020, amid the COVID pandemic, Kara Wells began her career as an assistant professor of accounting at the Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ Bothell’s business school.

Cue the band: It’s time for “Pomp and Circumstance.â€�
There will be flowing robes and purple-and-gold tassels. The gonfalons, symbols of the 16 colleges and schools that make up the Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ, have been unfurled and prepared. Campus is being adorned and the iconic Drumheller Fountain soon will again be cast in a purple glow.

Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµâ€™s 147th commencement ceremonies are scheduled to return this June to in-person celebrations in Alaska Airlines Field at Husky Stadium for the first time since 2019. Similar in-person commencement ceremonies are being planned for Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ Bothell and Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ Tacoma.

Arriving at the Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµâ€™s Seattle campus, Brandon Green had a familiar feeling of disorientation.
Green, 33, who transferred to the Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ from Everett Community College after spending seven years as a U.S. Army medic, had travelled the U.S. and the globe, including two tours in Afghanistan. He’d undergone rigorous training and knew what it was like to deploy to foreign, often dangerous places.
Even with all that experience, college life was different.

Researchers at the Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ and Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ Tacoma have been studying arsenic levels in the mud, water and in creatures from lakes in the south Puget Sound area. Eating contaminated fish or snails from these lakes could lead to health risks.

A model of the eastern California forests of the Sierra Nevada looks at the longer-term future of wildfires under future climate change scenarios. Results show an initial roughly decade-long burst of wildfire activity, followed by recurring fires of decreasing area — a pattern that could apply to other hot, dry forests in the West.

Twenty scientists and engineers at the Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ are among the 38 new members elected to the Washington State Academy of Sciences for 2021, according to a July 15 announcement. New members were chosen for “their outstanding record of scientific and technical achievement, and their willingness to work on behalf of the Academy to bring the best available science to bear on issues within the state of Washington.â€�

Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ President Ana Mari Cauce and Provost Mark A. Richards today announced the selection of Sheila Edwards Lange, president of Seattle Central College, as chancellor of the Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ Tacoma. Her appointment, pending approval by the Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ Board of Regents, is set to begin Sept. 16.

To understand how Puget Sound has changed, we first must understand how it used to be. But unlike most major estuaries in the U.S., long-term monitoring of Puget Sound fish populations did not exist until 1990. Now researchers have discovered an unconventional method to help fill in gaps in the data: old vessel logbooks.

A team led by researchers at Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ Tacoma, Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ and Washington State University Puyallup has discovered a chemical that kills coho salmon in urban streams before the fish can spawn.

A talk with the hosts of Washington Sea Grant’s “Coastal Café” podcast, which is also a radio show. And EarthLab’s podcast “Voices Unbound” releases a new season of timely topics.

Three new rankings out this month place Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ among the best schools in the nation and the world.

Social inequalities, specifically racism and classism, are impacting the biodiversity, evolutionary shifts and ecological health of plants and animals in our cities. That’s the main finding of a review paper published Aug. 13 in Science led by the Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ, with co-authors at the University of California, Berkeley, and University of Michigan.

Notable new books by Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ faculty and staff include a study of rebellion at sea, an emeritus faculty member’s Buddhist-focused memoir, a reconsideration of Northwest Coast Native American art with Indigenous perspectives in mind, thoughts on bridging cultural gaps through design — and an award for the editor-in-chief of Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ Press.

A talk with Eric Madfis of Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ Tacoma about his new book “How to Stop School Rampage Killing: Lessons from Averted Mass Shootings and Bombings,” published this spring by Palgrave MacMillan.

A quick look at several Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ-produced podcasts, from benevolent marketing to Arctic geopolitics — and a classics professor’s work being featured in a podcast produced by the Times Literary Supplement.