News and Updates

On August 29, join University of Washington Bothell and McMenamins Anderson School for the first of their free monthly Pub Night Talks. Dan Jaffe, UW Bothell professor and chair of the physical science division, will present his talk titled, “Planes, Trains and Mountain Tops: The Adventures of One Scientist and His Students Studying the Impacts of Humans on Planet Earth.” The event is scheduled from 7 to 8:30 p.m. at Haynes’ Hall at McMenamins Anderson School – 18607 Bothell Way NE, Bothell. Doors open at 6:00 p.m. and all ages are welcome.

Read more from the Everett Herald.

Join UW News and University of Washington astronomer Nicole Kelly Tuesday at 1 p.m. on Facebook for a live eclipse Q&A. You can ask all of your burning questions about the upcoming solar eclipse!
Submit your questions ahead of time using#EclipseChatUW or send them to us via messenger! Visit UW News on Facebook.

Stay in the loop on what is going on in Spokane and Eastern Washington and the goings on at the UW Spokane Center. See the updates from Eastern Washington here!

Starting Aug. 12, the public can watch fossil preparation of the University of Washington Burke Museum‘s Tyrannosaurus rex skull “live.” Over the next several months, Burke paleontologists will carefully remove the rock surrounding the skull, slowly exposing the 66-million-year-old specimen. Discovered in summer 2016 in the Hell Creek Formation in northeast Montana, the skull is 4 feet long, weighs 3,000 pounds in its field jacket, is the first in Washington and one of only 15 reasonably complete T. rex skulls ever discovered. Read more from the Burke Museum.

UW physicians and surgeons were part of the human medical specialist team that joined Woodland Park Zoo’s animal health team last month to perform emergency surgery on 38-year-old Vip, a western lowland gorilla. Read more about the procedure and see video from Q13 FOX. In 2015, Vip underwent a specialized sinus procedure and UWTV’s UW|360 captured it and reported on the ground-breaking procedure.