For senior Kate DiNucci, research has been critical for her growth as a student, a scientist and a person. We sat down with DiNucci to hear more about how research shaped her UW undergraduate experience and prepared her for what might come next.
Category: Research
Posts that relate to undergraduate research as well as UAA programs that lead research.
GOAL! Students in summer research cohort score new skills through World Cup studies
Many of the 19 students in this year鈥檚 Summer Institute in the Arts and Humanities came into the program as soccer fans. But they left as researchers with new skills and a broader outlook on the world around them.
What does soccer have to do with research? Find out at the 2026 summer symposium
On Friday, Aug. 21, 19 students who took part in the Summer Institute in the Arts and Humanities will present their projects at the annual SIAH Symposium where they鈥檒l share how the World Cup left a lasting impact on Seattle, its residents and its visitors.
Annual spring CELEbration bridges civic health, community engagement and leadership for students
Hundreds of students, faculty and community members gathered at the annual Spring CELEbration to learn about how students鈥� work in community engagement, leadership and activism affected their academic experience and impacted the broader community.
AI, library checkouts, biodiversity and music: A glimpse at 2026 Research Symposium presenters
With more than 1,700 presentations across more than 220 majors, this year鈥檚 Symposium was the largest in the event鈥檚 29 years.
Symposium 2026: Art and artificial intelligence
Lorelei Silbernagel started to think more deeply about using AI for art and the type of human connection that gets lost when only interacting with computer-made media. She decided to use her research project as an opportunity to explore these themes more deeply.聽
Symposium 2026: At-home blood tests
Finding a way to collect RNA from one sample could eventually translate into a way to use self-collected blood samples for diagnostics and disease treatment.
Symposium 2026: What is Seattle reading?
Daniella Maor and Karalee Harris were a part of a team of students and mentors that delved into the Seattle Public Library鈥檚 checkout data.
Symposium 2026: Bias in speech recognition
In her research, Nakigozi has spent the last year helping to archive the Sephardic Studies collection of recorded oral histories.
Symposium 2026: Biodiversity after timber harvests
Mia Ferrero-Lampron, Jacqueline Wu and their mentors at the 天美影视传媒 and the Nature Conservancy wanted to create baseline biodiversity data for these lands.