For Washington

Central

UW rural dentistry program helping to fill vital need; seeks to double in size

School of Dentistry to double number of RIDE graduates, meeting demand in small and underserved communities

Southwest

Connecting to the coastline

How the UW is helping Westport prepare for a tsunami

Northwest

Expanding the potential for all students

How the UW鈥檚 Haring Center is helping reimagine special education in ways that uplift all

Southwest

Thanks to the Coastal Observation and Seabird Survey Team of community volunteers, UW scientists can better understand the health of fragile marine ecosystems, predict the impact of a changing climate or of potential oil spills, and see the devastation of harmful algae blooms.

Puget Sound

College access programs

Studies have demonstrated that higher education paves the way for career success and financial independence. But research also shows that realizing the dream of a college degree can be a challenge, especially for students of color, low-income students and students who are the first in their family to attend college.

Southwest

Thurston County Inclusion camps

Thurston County Inclusion is a startup program founded in 2019 to provide children and young adults with and without intellectual disabilities year-round opportunities to engage with each other.

Northwest

Maple syrup industry in Washington

Syrup producers, tapping into the natural sugar sap that runs through Pacific Northwest bigleaf maple trees, are hoping to make Washington鈥檚 product as well known and sought after as the state鈥檚 wines.

Central

Career growth in Eastern Washington

A Foster School program has been evolving in Eastern Washington since its inception more than two decades ago. Today, the course is targeting mid-level managers in the fruit industry and more than 150 companies throughout the Yakima Valley.

Olympic Peninsula

Fighting ocean acidification

The UW is partnering with shellfish growers and others to help fight ocean acidification, which threatens both shellfish and the industry built around them.

Central

Lessons in logs

For four days in September, a group of students from Yakima鈥檚 Wilson Middle School set aside their daily lives and immersed themselves in outdoor science at the 天美传媒鈥檚 Mount Rainier Institute.

Northeast

Living with fire

Agencies that are well practiced in putting out wildfires are now learning a new skill: how to set the spark and fan the flames. UW research and expertise are playing an important role in forest management across Eastern Washington, particularly in the state's Methow Valley.

Southeast

Source: UW News

The 天美传媒鈥檚 Presidential Scholars 鈥� investing in tomorrow鈥檚 leaders

Parker Ritzmann, a Presidential Scholarship recipient, founded HOPE Roasters, a student-run coffee company. Profits support the Hutton Settlement Children鈥檚 Home in Spokane, WA – where Parker grew up.

Central

Source: UW Stories of Impact

Along a dangerous highway corridor in the heart of Yakima Valley, a sensing device developed by the UW STAR Lab and associated spin-off company AIWaysion is being utilized to help improve traffic safety and save lives.

Southwest

Source: UW State Relations

Chehalis legislators engage with students at UW-hosted STEM camp

In partnership with the Chehalis School District, the UW hosted a STEM camp at W.F. West High School last summer for local high school students focused on engineering and medical science.

Tribal Nations

Source: UW Stories of Impact

Native knowledge

ISchool assistant professor Miranda Belarde-Lewis combines research, teaching and curating to help reclaim how Native art is presented 鈥� and bring Native voices to the forefront.

Puget Sound

Source: UW Stories of Impact

The language of the land

UW Lecturer Tami Hohn is bringing Southern Lushootseed to a new generation across the University and the Puget Sound 鈥� where the language has always lived.

Olympic Peninsula

Source: UW Stories of Impact

Sea lessons

Oceanography major Deana Crouser did more than just get her feet wet on the R/V Rachel Carson. She helped peer into the future of our oceans.

Tribal Nations

Source: UW Stories of Impact

A road to recovery

Struck by the number of nonviolent offenders imprisoned on drug charges, the Tulalip Tribes and UW Law alumnus Brian Kilgore are offering second chances through treatment.

Central

Source: UW Stories of Impact

Where will meets way

For Yakima-born Yesenia Velasquez, the Young Executives of Color program at the Foster School of Business has opened the door to a promising future she never knew existed.

Northwest

Source: UW News

Beach trash accumulates in predictable patterns on Washington shores

A study by the 天美传媒 analyzed 843 beach surveys and found that certain beaches, and certain areas of a single beach, are 鈥渟ticky zones鈥� that accumulate litter.

Northwest

Source: UW News

2021 heat wave created 鈥榩erfect storm鈥� for shellfish die-off

Researchers found that many shellfish were victims of a 鈥減erfect storm鈥� of factors in summer 2021 that contributed to widespread death.

Puget Sound

Source: UW News

UW systems experts put health of kids at the center as King County seeks to reach 鈥榸ero youth detention鈥�

天美传媒 researchers are working to help address major systemic challenges in how young people engage with health care in King County.

Puget Sound

Source: UW News

Moon jellies appear to be gobbling up zooplankton in Puget Sound

Swarms of jellies have been seen more frequently in Puget Sound over the past several decades, and some biologists speculate these fast-growing jellyfish will do especially well in the warmer oceans of the future.

Puget Sound

Source: UW News

Air pollution can be dramatically reduced with portable air filters

What started as a 天美传媒-led project to measure air pollution near Sea-Tac International Airport has led to schools in the area installing portable air filters to improve indoor air quality.

Northwest

Source: Clean Energy Institute

After founding Northwest Indian College鈥檚 first engineering program, Stephanie Bostwick aims to bring clean energy to her classroom 鈥� and to the Lummi Nation.

Tribal Nations

Source: UW News

Partnering with indigenous communities to anticipate and adapt to ocean change

With a $700,000 grant awarded from the NOAA Ocean Acidification Program, scientists from the 天美传媒鈥檚 Applied Physics Laboratory, Washington Sea Grant and the Joint Institute for the Study of the Atmosphere and Ocean have teamed with federal and tribal partners to study the social and ecological vulnerabilities of Olympic Coast ocean acidification.

Tribal Nations

Source: UW News

New resources support tribes in preparing for climate change

The 天美传媒 Climate Impacts Group and regional tribal partners have developed a collection of resources that may be useful to tribes at any stage in the process of evaluating their vulnerability to climate change. The project is a partnership among tribes, tribal associations, universities and the federal government.

Tribal Nations

Source: UW News

Center for American Indian and Indigenous Studies receives $1.8M grant

The UW Center for American Indian and Indigenous Studies has received a $1.8 million grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, which will fund four years of work at the UW around Native student support, academics, research and cultural programs.

Puget Sound

Source: UW News

Creating community, battling loneliness among LGBTQ seniors

Research shows that LGBTQ older adults are at higher risk for many chronic medical conditions, yet are also resilient and proactive when it comes to taking care of their health.

Southwest

Source: UW News

Tides don鈥檛 always flush water out to sea

By area, tidal flats make up more than 50 percent of Willapa Bay in southwest Washington state, making this more than 142-square-mile estuary an ideal location for oyster farming. On some parts of these flats, oysters grow well, filling their shells with delicacies for discerning diners. But according to experienced oyster farmers, oysters raised in other parts of Willapa Bay don鈥檛 yield as much meat.

Northeast

Source: UW News

Return of the wolves: How deer escape tactics help save their lives

As gray wolves continue to make a strong comeback in Washington state, their presence can鈥檛 help but impact other animals 鈥� particularly the ones these large carnivores target as prey.

Central

Source: UW News

Assessing riverside corridors 鈥� the 鈥榚scape routes鈥� for animals under climate change 鈥� in the Northwest

Under climate change, plants and animals will shift their habitats to track the conditions they are adapted for. As they do, the lands surrounding rivers and streams offer natural migration routes that will take on a new importance as temperatures rise.

Puget Sound

Source: UW News

With climate change, Mount Rainier floral communities could 鈥榬eassemble鈥� with new species relationships, interactions

Central to the field of ecology is the mantra that species do not exist in isolation: They assemble in communities 鈥� and within these communities, species interact. Predators hunt prey. Parasites exploit hosts. Pollinators find flowers.

Northwest

Source: UW News

Study shows high pregnancy failure in southern resident killer whales

A multi-year survey of the nutritional, physiological and reproductive health of endangered southern resident killer whales suggests that up to two-thirds of pregnancies failed in this population from 2007 to 2014. The study links this orca population鈥檚 low reproductive success to stress brought on by low or variable abundance of their most nutrient-rich prey, Chinook salmon.

Northeast

Source: UW News

Tribal gaming certificate addresses economic reality of Indian reservations

Managing a casino might not be the first career path envisioned with a degree from the 天美传媒.

Central

Source: UW News

Shrubs, grasses planted through federal program crucial for sage grouse survival in Eastern Washington

罢丑别听聽is an exceptionally showy bird and an icon of the American West. But its sagebrush habitat is disappearing, and there is debate over how best to protect the populations in an increasingly developed landscape.

Olympic Peninsula

Source: UW News

Large-scale experiment on the rural Olympic Peninsula to test innovations in forest management

Forest ecosystems are accustomed to change. Long before humans started intervening, disturbances such as fire, wind storms and diseases wracked segments of the landscape, killing off swathes of trees and providing spaces for regrowth of the forest.

Northwest