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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.
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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.
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Rural libraries in Washington state and Texas are partnering with the University of Washington to help design strategies for fighting misinformation.
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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.
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The U.S. trails many Western democracies when it comes to teaching critical thinking skills that can help users avoid misinformation. Advocates call it an issue of economic competitiveness. They say that a failure to expand digital literacy programs could lead to greater misinformation and polarization.
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In his new book about the connections between African Americans and the Sudan, University of Washington professor Christopher Tounsel takes note of Andrew Brimmer, the first Black member of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System.
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Can artificial intelligence teach humans about empathy? Researchers at the University of Washington think so.
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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.
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Graduating from college comes with its own unique set of challenges. Add a global pandemic, impending recession, and the looming consequences of climate change, and it becomes another beast altogether. Here's how four University of Washington seniors are thinking about the future as they enter their graduating year.
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Each year, the University of Washington accepts thousands of transfer students. Three students describe the route that brought them to UW and how attending university at a later stage benefitted them, despite the challenges of the transition.