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Stories and news about the undergraduate academic experience
UW undergrad named 2026 Rhodes Scholar
Congratulations to Shubhum Bansal, one of only 32 students nationwide to receive the award and the University鈥檚 38th Rhodes Scholar.
Unlocking the brain with the fruit fly
Undergraduate Mary Bun studies multitasking in fruit flies to offer valuable insights into disorders like Parkinson鈥檚 disease.
Four UW undergrads receive Fulbright scholarships for teaching, researching and studying abroad
June 15, 2026
Four UW undergraduates received the 2026-2027 scholarships, joining three UW graduate students and about 2,000 students and recent graduates from across the country in receiving this year's awards.
Annual spring CELEbration bridges civic health, community engagement and leadership for students
June 12, 2026
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
June 8, 2026
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
June 8, 2026
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: Forgotten instruments
June 8, 2026
The idea for Juan Posada Abal鈥檚 research project came from a trip to the basement of the School of Music.聽There, he saw the more than 400 instruments that the Ethnomusicology Instrument Collection had amassed over the years.