Solving for success
Education
Once a homeless youth with a devastating addiction to drugs and alcohol, Mark Bennett is on his way to earning his bachelor鈥檚 in mathematics at the UW 鈥 all while giving back to the community that saved him and raising his 9-year-old son.

Sky-high solution
Alumni
With sights set sky high on streamlining coating for the aerospace industry, UW startup PolyDrop developed an additive that鈥檚 grabbed the attention of Boeing 鈥 and they鈥檙e just getting started.

Arctic immersion
Student Experience
On a mission to learn the language by immersing themselves in the culture, students Jason Young and Walter O鈥橳oole journeyed to the Canadian Arctic to study the native tongue of the Inuits.

Intergalactic show-and-tell
Discovery & Explorations
The 天美影视传媒 Astronomy Department is taking starry nights to the schools, inflating its portable planetarium in classrooms across the Seattle area.

A community of support
Community
As a student in the UW School of Dentistry鈥檚 RIDE program, Renelle Conner is working to bring a world of good to the Yakama Nation community, one smile at a time.

Goodbye, greenhouse gases
Environment
A groundbreaking concept for a fusion reactor called the 鈥渄ynomak鈥 could reduce our carbon footprint and change the energy game 鈥 all on a budget 鈥 courtesy of graduate student Derek Sutherland.

Citizen science in action
Environment
From counting seabirds to collecting rare plants, UW professors and students are partnering with caring Washingtonians to research pressing environmental issues.

Engineering the car of the future
Engineering
Sixty UW undergrads from schools across campus are teaming up for a national competition to re-engineer the fuel-hungry Chevy Camaro into the hybrid-electric car of tomorrow.

Unlocking secrets of the ocean
Discovery & Explorations
Students, scientists, engineers 鈥 and even some robots 鈥 have joined forces to build the world鈥檚 largest deep鈥搒ea ocean observatory off the coast of Washington and Oregon.
