UW Alumni Association

05/28/2026

GOLD (Graduates Of the Last Decade) alumni — this is your chance to cultivate lifelong ties to the UW community with your peers!

Submit your application to join the GOLD Council, a special advisory body that bridges the gap between recent graduates and the broader alumni community.

The application period closes May 31. See the link in our comments and apply today.

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05/27/2026

UW Alumni Book Club is diving into a new novel — "The Frozen River" by Ariel Lawhon . This historical mystery follows 18th-century midwife Martha Ballard as she uses her medical knowledge to solve a murder. Our friends at University of Washington School of Nursing were kind enough to weigh in, sharing how midwives are still an essential part our our medical system! Join the discussion at UWalum.com/bookclub.

05/27/2026

UW Alumni Book Club is diving into a new novel — "The Frozen River" by .lawhon. This historical mystery follows 18th-century midwife Martha Ballard as she uses her medical knowledge to solve a murder. Our friends at were kind enough to weigh in, sharing how midwives are still an essential part our our medical system! Join the discussion at UWalum.com/bookclub.

05/26/2026

UW Students are digging into local history, as reported in The Seattle Times! UW Department of Architecture has offered a course called "City Erased," in which students have been mapping the Seattle neighborhoods that were wiped out when Interstate 5 was built in the early 1960s. The classes have used historic photos, old maps and city records to create 3-D models of the buildings, which are on display in Gould Hall through May 29. More details at the links in our comments!

05/26/2026

Hanging at Grad Fair with Holly the Husky on UW Bothell campus… swing by to say hello!
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05/22/2026

Get ready to party! UW Bothell Block Party and Brewfest is a community-powered celebration of music and Husky Pride north of Seattle, and it's happening on Sat. May 30. UWAA members save on tickets! Get all the details at the link.

The UW Bothell Block Party is more than a summer kickoff — it’s a community-powered celebration of music and Husky Pride in the North Sound region. Featuring some of the hottest rising bands, the finest local craft breweries, food trucks, outdoor games and much more, the UW Bothell Block Party h...

05/21/2026

University of Washington President Robert J. Jones visited Yakima on May 9 as part of 509 Day, our day for celebrating Huskies east of the Cascades. "We don't just serve the western side of the mountains," said Jones to KIMA Action News, "We have an obligation to serve people from the state of Washington and the region,"

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University of Washington President Robert J. Jones visited Yakima on Saturday for '509 Day,' a day for the university to connect with people in the Yakima Valle

05/20/2026

UW Magazine's Aleenah Ansari catches up with UW alum Emily Kim, ’08, co-founder of The Pastry Project, a Pioneer Square pastry education space (now with a bakery window!) that's serving up tasty treats while breaking barriers to employment. Read all about it!

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Emily Kim, '08, serves up baked goods and social impact at The Pastry Project, a community bakeshop committed to accessible education.

05/15/2026

From the windswept shores of Sicily and Malta to the historic sites of Türkiye, our UW Alumni Tours travelers are out seeing the world and having a blast doing it. Wish you were here!

05/15/2026

55 years of epic fun! Join the spirit of community May 16 & 17 at the .

See U District Street Fair and The U District Partnership for all the juicy details.

05/14/2026

In 2014, Tamiko Nimura, ’00, ’04, boarded a bus to Tule Lake — the site of the largest concentration camp for Japanese Americans during World War II — in search of a place that had shaped her family’s history. It was where her father was imprisoned from age 10 to 14. Her experience forms the core of her new memoir, out now from University of Washington Press.

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Author Tamiko Nimura traveled into the past to recover her family’s history and her father’s childhood.