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SEATTLE (AP) — The University of Washington is getting $210 million from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation to help build a new facility to advance efforts to improve the health and well-being of people around the world. The donation from the largest private foundation in the world is the largest single gift in the university's history...

SEATTLE (AP) — Green Party presidential candidate Jill Stein is holding events in Seattle and Olympia next week. The Seattle Times reports that Stein will campaign at the University of Washington on Monday evening. Her campaign says she'll be joined by City Council member Kshama Sawant...

SEATTLE (AP) — In this city where residents can get practically anything delivered to their doorsteps — often within hours — trucks, bikes, cars and buses regularly jostle for space on Seattle's streets. On Wednesday, the city of Seattle teamed up with the University of Washington to improve how goods are delivered in the city — solutions they hope can be used in other cities across the country...

SEATTLE (AP) — The University of Washington's board of regents is facing a lawsuit over allegations that it violated the state's open meeting laws by selecting the university's president in secret. The Seattle Times reports that the lawsuit filed Tuesday by the Washington Coalition for Open Government cites email exchanges between university officials that indicate the board picked Ana Mari Cauce

SEATTLE (AP) — Researchers and employees for a University of Washington lab that uses tissues obtained from abortions and other procedures have filed a lawsuit to prevent their names from being released to anti-abortion activists. The Seattle Times reports employees at the Birth Defects Research Center say they fear harassment and violence if their names are given to anti-abortion group The Center

MUKILTEO, Wash. (AP) — The University of Washington on Sunday identified one of the three people fatally shot at a party of young adults in an upscale neighborhood as one of its students. The school in a statement says Anna Bui died in the early Saturday shooting at a house in the Seattle suburb of Mukilteo...

SEATTLE (AP) — After a massive toxic algae bloom closed lucrative shellfish fisheries off the West Coast last year, scientists are turning to a new tool that could provide an early warning of future problems. Scientists at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and the University of Washington last week deployed the so-called ocean robot about 50 feet into waters off the coast of La P

SEATTLE (AP) — Hundreds of students at the University of Washington's Seattle campus are protesting what they view as systemic institutional racism at the university. The Seattle Times reports the students marched through campus Thursday, made speeches and briefly took over a regents meeting...

SEATTLE (AP) — Greenpeace has filed a complaint against a University of Washington fishery scientist, claiming that at times he fails to disclose in articles the industry funding he receives. A letter sent Wednesday from Greenpeace to university President Ana Mari Cauce details a complaint against Ray Hilborn and asks for an investigation...

Gimme an "N ..." gimme an "O ..." After hearing boos from women all over campus, the University of Washington has taken down a flier from its Facebook page that offered advice for coeds interested in trying out for the school's cheerleading squad...