UW research

A small team of researchers behind the state-funded Racial Restrictive Covenant Project are sorting through millions of residential property documents in Washington to uncover a lost history of housing discrimination. But that state funding runs dry in June.

It appears a pattern of heavy storms in the Pacific Northwest may have obscured the effects of climate change over the past 20 years. Researchers here…

Most people who pay their own energy bills know that power is expensive. But where it’s coming from and how much it costs is often more mysterious.That…

Do I have an accent? You hear me on the radio. I hear myself on the radio, many times a week in western Washington, and I didn’t think so. But, a…

http://stream.publicbroadcasting.net/production/mp3/kplu/local-kplu-959082.mp3Writing a research paper should be easy for students today. They’ve got…

http://stream.publicbroadcasting.net/production/mp3/kplu/local-kplu-947783.mp3If an iceberg cracks in Antarctica and no one's there to hear it, does it…

The drug-resistant strain of staph infection MRSA is known to be a problem for many hospitals. A pioneering study from the University of Washington shows…