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Dawg Daze 2026 Digest
September 15, 2026
August research highlights: Nectar robbing, anxious attachment styles, persnickety plasma, more
August 31, 2026
ArtSci Roundup: Summer 2026
July 8, 2026
The $3 million wobble: How UW physicists won the 2026 Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics
May 19, 2026
UWs graduate and professional programs highly ranked by US News & World Report
April 6, 2026
ArtSci Roundup: November
ArtSci Roundup: February
January 21, 2026
Northwest scientists develop a dark matter detector to study one of the biggest mysteries of the universe
December 1, 2025
Washington has the pieces for a quantum ecosystem now the state needs a game plan and money
November 23, 2025
ArtSci Roundup: November
ArtSci Roundup: November
October 13, 2025
Opinion: Reframing the narrative on physics readiness
October 9, 2025
‘Much-loved’ UW collaborator John Clarke wins the Nobel Prize in Physics
Much-loved UW collaborator John Clarke wins the Nobel Prize in Physics
October 8, 2025
Happy 10th birthday to the laser interferometer gravitational-wave observatory now drop dead
September 10, 2025
Public records, records management and privacy officer join compliance and risk services
UW computational neuroscientist and physicist among newly elected National Academy of Sciences members
June 30, 2025
College of Arts & Sciences Students Recognized in the 2025 Husky 100
June 11, 2025
ArtSci Roundup: May 2025
April 29, 2025
April 19: Arts and Sciences Events at Admitted Student Day
March 1, 2025
ArtSci People & Research in the Media: Autumn Quarter Roundup
January 8, 2025
Arts & Sciences Guide to UW Family Weekend
October 17, 2024
Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation announces Andrew Laszo, Research Assistant Professor, as a 2024 Moore Inventor Fellow
September 17, 2024
Donna Messina Summer Institute
Summer Institute in Physics Resumes
January 11, 2024
UW research team uses sound waves to move ‘excitons’ further than ever before, leading toward faster and more energy efficient electronics and optical devices
September 30, 2023
Dawg Daze Digest: Planetarium Shows, Art Tours, Trivia, Information Sessions and more!
September 7, 2023
High School Teachers Get Schooled in Physics
August 31, 2023
Xiaodong Xu: Then and Now / 2012 Early Career Award Winner
July 16, 2023
Researchers make a quantum computing leap with a magnetic twist
June 26, 2023
UW team detects atomic 'breathing' for quantum computing breakthrough
June 22, 2023
2023 Husky 100
April 23, 2023
ArtSci Roundup: Democracy and the 2022 Midterm Elections, UW Dance Presents, Physics Slam, and more
January 12, 2023
ArtSci Roundup: Assessing the 2022 Midterm Election Results With Implications for the Next Two Years and for 2024, Empires Strick Back: Football and Colonialism, and more
November 2, 2022
James Bardeen, an expert on unraveling Einstein?s equations, dies at 83
July 4, 2022
Dianne Harris named dean of UW College of Arts & Sciences
July 15, 2021
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The Physics of a Deadly Virus
September 25, 2020
UW receives NSF funds for investment in an interdisciplinary quantum future
August 31, 2020
UW Satellite Lab
Washington’s first student-built satellite preparing for launch
October 31, 2019
Ann Nelson, backpacking
Mentor, Advocate & Leader in the Field
September 15, 2019
ArtsUW Roundup: Creating Alternative Worlds, Bulrusher, Final Week of James Coupe: Exercises in Passivity and more!
August 16, 2019
Night skies of August hold wonders
August 7, 2019
Climate change expert named 2019 ASLD
June 6, 2019
Two UW students honored by Goldwater Foundation
May 7, 2019
CUWIP Group Phto
UW Physics welcomed over 160 undergraduates from the Pacific Northwest to the APS Conference for Undergraduate Women in Physics
January 31, 2019
CUWiP Fundraiser
Help UW Physics support Undergraduate Women
November 9, 2018
Dark Matter Hunters Are Hoping 2017 Is Their Year
January 3, 2017
Bagels and buns: The research that won the 2016 Nobel Prize for Physics explained
October 5, 2016
Why 'exotic matter' matters — and won the Nobel Prize in Physics
October 4, 2016
UW Wins Nobel Prize in Physics
David Thouless Wins Nobel Prize in Physics
October 4, 2016
Did physicists discover a previously unknown fifth force of nature?
August 17, 2016
NASA-funded UW researchers develop kidney-stone zapping technology
July 4, 2016
Shih-Chieh Hsu Hosting A Weeklong Workshop Aug 5-9, 2013
July 31, 2013
UW Encourages Women to Pursue Physics
April 12, 2012