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Celebrate AANHPI Heritage Month
May is national Asian American, Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander Heritage Month. Learn more, get involved and give support to these diverse communities that enrich American history, society and culture.
TIME honors protein designer David Baker
The magazine’s inaugural TIME100 Health list profiles 100 of the world’s most influential figures in health fields and biomedical sciences. Baker is a professor of biochemistry at the UW School of Medicine and director of the UW Medicine Institute of Protein Design.
Studying ice age climate data to better understand future temps
UW researchers did a detailed reconstruction of climate during the most recent ice age — when a large swath of North America was covered in ice — to better understand how rising levels of carbon dioxide will affect future temperatures.