University of Washington

At least 19 colleges have changed essay prompts this year, according to one college counseling firm. Will it change how students talk about themselves?

Among financial pressures facing universities, federal funding upheaval means there could be fewer spots available at graduate programs this cycle.

University of Washington oceanographers decoded data from two sets of native coral samples collected more than a century apart, and found acidification there was accelerating.

The Statsraad Lehmkuhl is traveling the globe to raise awareness of the ocean’s role in our future as the climate changes. The world-renowned ship recently docked in Seattle.

University leadership said the decline in the number of international students is a trend at colleges and universities across the country.

Federal grants fund research projects at colleges and universities throughout Washington state. The shutdown has paused the reviews necessary for their approval.

A new study by the University of Washington links heavy wildfire smoke to a reduction in active sperm.

According to University of Washington researchers involved in the study, its findings are part of a growing body of work showing that providing free meals to all students could have a whole host of benefits.

The small, clumsy fish isn’t the strongest or fastest creature living in Puget Sound. But it has developed other tools to survive in rough waters.

A former longtime history professor at the University of Washington, Quintard Taylor started the research website BlackPast.