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News & Events
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Making testing available at home improves Alzheimer’s vision study
A team led by researchers at the UW School of Medicine found that home-testing expanded the number of study participants, providing more in-depth information about the relationship between the eyes and the brain.
![Group photo of faculty that participated in the tour this year.](https://uw-s3-cdn.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/81/2024/07/10094925/faculty-field-tour-tile.jpg)
New faculty’s thousand-mile tour of Washington
The UW Faculty Field Tour — a bus trip spanning five days and more than 1,000 miles — allows new UW faculty members to share their unique perspectives and connect with Washington state’s diverse communities, natural wonders and vital heritage.
![Madeleine Lucas, a doctoral candidate in Earth and Space Sciences and co-author of the new study works at a computer terminal during the 2021 research cruise that collected data for the map.](https://uw-s3-cdn.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/81/2024/07/09120130/Lucas-working-on-research-cruise-tile.jpg)
Cascadia Subduction Zone comes into sharper focus
Scientists have long been working to understand the subterranean structures of the the 600-mile-long fault where two tectonic plates meet along the coasts of southern British Columbia, Washington, Oregon and northern California.
Fast Facts
For Washington
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Honors & Awards
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