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The National Science Foundation is awarding $15 million dollars over five years for a new Cascadia Region Earthquake Science Center. It will focus on the potentially disastrous subduction zone off the West Coast.

Jennifer Cohen has been hired as Southern California’s athletic director after seven years in the same post at the University of Washington. Cohen had been at UW for 24 years.

University researchers found detention staff threw balls of pepper spray and used other means of force against detainees, including those with mental illness. They found such incidents occurred on average once a month.

Experts say a mishmash of ways more than 3,000 counties calculate heat deaths means we don’t really know how many people die in the U.S. each year because of high temperatures in an ever warming world.

Who wins and who loses with the University of Washington leaving the Pac-12 Conference for the Big Ten?

Oregon and Washington are moving from the Pac-12 to the Big Ten in August 2024 The Big Ten earlier in the day cleared the way for the Pacific Northwest rivals to join the league.

The Pac-12 Conference issued a statement aimed at stability after Colorado became the third school in a year to announce plans to leave. The nine schools remaining for the 2024-25 season were largely silent Friday.

Since last November, a library at the University of Washington has featured a different kind of vending machine. It's stocked with ibuprofen, pregnancy tests and the morning-after pill. Such machines are increasingly popular on college campuses around the country.

Rural libraries in Washington state and Texas are partnering with the University of Washington to help design strategies for fighting misinformation.

Jevin West, co-founder of the University of Washington's Center for an Informed Public, talks about the ways generative AI — a form of artificial intelligence that can create new content — could accelerate misinformation and cause confusion.