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#HuskyExperience

Bridging the gap

The Costco Diversity Scholarship helped make a UW education possible — and sparked Carlos Estrada Alamo’s multidisciplinary medical career, built on boundless curiosity.

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#HuskyExperience

A  statistician
weighs  in  on  AI

Working at the intersection of statistics and computing, UW Professor Zaid Harchaoui explores what artificial intelligence models do well, where they fall short, and why.

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#UWinnovates

Decoding the
universe

UW astronomy undergrads are using cutting-edge coding skills to help scientists make the most of discoveries from a revolutionary new telescope.

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#HuskyExperience

Turning the tide

Chris Mantegna, ’21, is studying how pollutants affect shellfish in our food web — and training a new generation of marine scientists.

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Be Boundless

News & Events

Rankings

UW among best universities in the world for interdisciplinary science

The University was ranked No. 15 in the world for interdisciplinary scientific research, according to a new list by the U.K.-based Times Higher Education. The UW placed in the top 10 among U.S. institutions. Among U.S. public institutions, the UW placed fifth.

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Photo illustration depicts a room with four people and overlay demonstrating the reach of the sound bubble.
Research

AI headphones create a ‘sound bubble,’ quieting all sounds more than a few feet away

A team led by researchers at the University of Washington has created a headphone prototype that allows listeners to hear people speaking within a bubble with a programmable radius of 3 to 6 feet.

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Still images from video snippets show how AI identifies in real-time what a clinician is holding.
Engineering

Wearable cameras allow AI to detect medication errors

A team led by researchers at the UW has developed a wearable camera system that detects potential errors in medication delivery with the help of artificial intelligence.

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Fast Facts

Honors & Awards

8 uw faculty have won the nobel prize

Undergrad research

8000+ undergraduate students participate in at least one quarter of research.

Rankings

The UW was named the most innovative public university in the world by Reuters in 2019.