News and Updates

The University of Washington’s Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) is celebrating 20 years of the Global Burden of Disease study. Join IHME and The Lancet for a series of events, including panel discussions and a keynote by Bill Gates, Co-Chairman of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, and Dr. Jim Yong Kim, President of the World Bank.

The Global Burden of Disease is the world’s largest systematic, scientific effort to quantify the magnitude of health loss from all major diseases, injuries, and risk factors by age, sex, and population. With 2,303 collaborators in 130 countries and territories, the study examines 332 diseases and injuries and 84 risk factors and has helped transform health care policy in numerous countries. Learn more here.

For the second consecutive year, the University of Washington has been ranked No. 25 on the Times Higher Education world rankings for 2018, released Tuesday. Among U.S. public institutions the UW is again ranked fourth — a position it has held for the last two years as well. Read more from UW Today.

The University of Washington and the Seattle Housing Authority (SHA) have signed a memorandum of understanding for the two organizations to develop affordable housing in the University District. The goal is to create a minimum of 150 affordable units that will be income restricted to those making 60 percent or less of area median income­­. Read more from UW News.

On Thursday, the Seattle Chamber hosted guests for an education-focused panel on Career Connected Learning. The Chamber is communicating with their members and other business about the need to ready themselves for the workforce of the future. Career-connected learning is a continuum of awareness, exploration, preparation and workforce experiences developed through strong public and private partnerships. Vice President Randy Hodgins, UW Office of External Affairs, joined Jeneé Myers, special advisor, postsecondary success & advancement, and other speakers from Seattle Colleges, Washington STEM and the Seattle Region Partnership for the panel discussion.

The University of Washington is ranked No. 13 in the world — No. 3 among public universities — on the 2017 Academic Ranking of World Universities, released this month.

While the UW has ranked among the top 20 universities each year since the ARWU was first published, this year’s ranking is the highest it has achieved to date. The UW ranked No. 16 for seven consecutive years before climbing to No. 15 for three straight years before landing at No. 13 this year.

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