High school students Grace Jennings and Jackson Gode would love to see the stigma of sickness change around the world. The two 17-year-olds traveled to Zambia with an intramural club at Seattle...
When you ask business students from around the world for their ideas to alleviate poverty, you unleash capitalism with passion.
Teams from the United States, Bangladesh and The Philippines won $40,...
When medical student Jory Wasserburger served a rotation in a Wyoming family physician’s office last year, the doctor wondered about the high number of child patients who had untreated tooth decay....
As the repression of sexual minorities in many nations around the world becomes visible, the call for social justice and equality is also gaining strength.
"Uncensored: Gender, Sexuality & Social...
A topic under-represented in the realm of global health, LGBT rights, is taking center stage this weekend at an international event hosted by UW. The Western Regional International Health Conference...
UW joined representatives from 208 universities and 55 countries in May at the 5th Annual Consortium of Universities for Global Health meeting in Washington, D.C.
The National Institutes of Health...
Dr. Mina Katchooi, who fashioned an elegant tableau, "The Water Lily," featuring a pond flower and hovering dragonfly, has won top honors in the School of Dentistry’s annual Department of...
A group of UW dentistry, medicine and nursing students converged on Mary's Place, a Seattle shelter, to care for homeless women and children. On Monday the students created an ad-hoc clinic,...
Recognition of depression as a global problem has increased dramatically over the last decade, partly through the efforts of University of Washington faculty to broaden awareness and treatment in the...
In a push to keep health professions on pace with changing demographics, the University of Washington will create a Health Professions Academy to cultivate and recruit undergraduate students from...