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IBIS Symposium 3 IBIS Symposium: Dylan, Cole and Abby IBIS Symposium 4 IBIS Symposium Poster Presentation On May 29th, four School of Oceanography undergraduates presented their research at the IBIS (Identity, Belonging, and Inquiry in Science) Symposium. Lilah Christianson, Ashley (Hana) Chung, Cole Dollens, and Will Menapace each shared work developed through a year-long, mentored research experience — IBIS's signature model for building equitable pathways into marine science.

The Seattle-based activist group calling itself “Students United for Palestinian Equality and Return” (SUPER) has no affiliation with the University of Washington. In May 2025, a group with a similar name was permanently banned by the UW from being a Registered Student Organization due to repeated policy violations, having already been suspended in 2024.

Climate projections estimate that, by the end of this century, the land area exceeding rice’s temperature limits could expand by 10 to 30 times in Asia’s major rice-producing nations. Arguably the most important crop on Earth, rice has been cultivated for roughly 10,000 years. It’s a staple food for more than half the global population, with about 90% cultivated and consumed in Asia.

A field of stars in the constellation Lupus captured by the Simonyi Survey Telescope at the NSF–DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory. The faint, glowing clouds spread across the image are galactic cirrus: clouds of interstellar gas and dust that can be seen in the foreground of the Milky Way galaxy. The original image is a whopping 1.7 gigapixels in size, a scale made possible by the Rubin Observatory’s 3,200-megapixel camera, the largest digital camera in the world.

This high-resolution image of Messier 82, also known as the Cigar galaxy because of its elliptical shape, provides the most detailed look yet at the one-of-a-kind galaxy. The Messier 82 galaxy, known as M82 or the Cigar galaxy, has long fascinated researchers with its astronomical rate of star formation — approximately 10 times faster than the Milky Way.

A UW team studied seven popular agentic AI browsers and found that four create ways for malicious actors to bypass a fundamental cybersecurity protocol called the “same-origin policy,” which makes websites open in a browser unable to interact with each other’s information. Researchers ran a successful proof-of-concept cyberattack on one browser. In the last year or so, artificial intelligence companies have rolled out a spate of web browsers equipped with AI agents.

Recently, students in the University of Washington’s Prosocial Computing Group noticed a trend on social media: People were using generative artificial intelligence to make short science videos. The trouble was that these people weren’t scientists, which, given AI’s proclivity to be convincingly wrong, could accelerate the spread of misinformation. So the lab wondered how to enable scientists and other researchers to better adapt to platforms like TikTok.

Southern Resident killer whales in the Salish Sea. Photo taken under NOAA Fisheries Permit #781-1824 Data spanning nearly half a century shows that endangered southern resident killer whales are spending less time in inland waters, whereas their larger cousins, Bigg’s killer whales, are increasingly present in Puget Sound. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration listed southern resident killer whales as endangered in 2005 after rapid population decline in the late 1990s.

A University of Washington-led research team created GovScape, an efficient search system for PDFs from the End of Term Web Archive. Users can look up exact keywords, like “FAFSA,” or use a visual search option to query for qualities like “redacted documents.” At the end of every presidential term, the End of Term Web Archive preserves that administration’s web presence as a vast trove of documents and webpages. The archive began in 2008, with George W.

President Robert J. Jones, Provost Tricia Serio and more than two dozen new University of Washington faculty toured Washington state last week on the annual Faculty Field Tour. The five-day bus tour departed from the Burke Museum in Seattle on June 15 and made stops at historic sites, the state capitol, health clinics, vineyards, farms, cities and towns throughout the state. Jones met the group in Richland to participate in a fireside chat.