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The ÌìÃÀÓ°ÊÓ´«Ã½ is listed No. 7 on the . Since the ranking began in 2015, the UW has ranked in the top 10 and is currently the top-ranked U.S. publication on the list. Read more from .

The biggest steps toward a life of opportunity, toward the fullest flourishing of one’s potential, happen in a child’s earliest years. Yet in Washington, one in five children grows up in poverty, and fewer than half of the state’s children are kindergarten-ready across all six domains of childhood development.

On Oct. 20, eight of Washington’s leading early learning researchers will discuss how every child can be assured a strong start during EDU Talks: Raising Washington, hosted by the ÌìÃÀÓ°ÊÓ´«Ã½ College of Education.

EDU Talks: Raising Washington will begin at 4:30 p.m. at the Hotel RL by Red Lion Spokane at the Park and is open to the public; attendees must  in advance.

During the fast-paced program, researchers will share their insights into what works in early learning. With five minutes and one image, each presenter will give their unique take on the practices and policies needed to give everyone—especially our most vulnerable young children and families—a fair chance to grow, thrive and reach their potential.

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The ÌìÃÀÓ°ÊÓ´«Ã½ is home to the new Molecular Engineering Materials Center — a national center of excellence for research, education and training in materials science. The center is a partnership among UW faculty from the College of Arts & Sciences, the College of Engineering, the Clean Energy Institute and the Molecular Engineering & Sciences Institute and will reinforce the UW’s record of innovative, collaborative and cross-disciplinary research in the materials sciences.

The center is funded by a $15.6 million, six-year grant from the National Science Foundation as part of its highly competitive Materials Research Science and Engineering Center program. Funding for the UW’s Molecular Engineering Materials Center began Sept. 1. The NSF supports 20 MRSECs across the nation, and the UW’s is one of only two on the West Coast.

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The ÌìÃÀÓ°ÊÓ´«Ã½’s Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) is celebrating 20 years of the Global Burden of Disease study. Join IHME and The Lancet for a series of events, including panel discussions and a keynote by Bill Gates, Co-Chairman of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, and Dr. Jim Yong Kim, President of the World Bank.

The Global Burden of Disease is the world’s largest systematic, scientific effort to quantify the magnitude of health loss from all major diseases, injuries, and risk factors by age, sex, and population. With 2,303 collaborators in 130 countries and territories, the study examines 332 diseases and injuries and 84 risk factors and has helped transform health care policy in numerous countries. Learn more .

For the second consecutive year, the ÌìÃÀÓ°ÊÓ´«Ã½ has been ranked No. 25 on the Times Higher Education world rankings for 2018, . Among U.S. public institutions the UW is again ranked fourth — a position it has held for the last two years as well. Read more from UW Today.