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Time-honored traditions for the Class of 2017

University of Washington Bothell connects with time-honored traditions in its commencement ceremony at 4 p.m. June 13 at Safeco Field in Seattle. This is the first year the ceremony is being held at the stadium. About 1,400 of the 2,000 Class of 2017 are expected to participate. (Photo is artist's conception.)

May 2, 2017

Peer advisers point students to success

Students can find advice from six professionals in the UW Bothell First-Year and Pre-Major Program’s Academic Advising Office. But sometimes it helps to talk with an informed student – one of the five peer advisers in the Student Success Center.

April 26, 2017

Students build Mars robot for NASA contest

UW Bothell’s Trickfire Robotics team is competing in the NASA Robotic Mining Competition May 22-26 at the Kennedy Space Center at Cape Canaveral, Florida. The mission is to build a robot to mine ice granules on Mars for water people will need to survive on the Red Planet.

April 26, 2017

Employers seek UW Bothell students at job fair

Representatives of more than 70 companies found nearly 400 students with resumes in hand Wednesday at the Spring Job and Internship Fair. The event was one of the biggest job fairs yet on campus. It took space in both the North Creek Events Center and the Activities and Recreation Center.

April 21, 2017

Internship impact: Aria Wilson

During the period she was interning at the Seattle office of the Council on American-Islamic Relations, donations to CAIR went up 103 percent, says Aria Wilson (global studies, June ’17). It also was the period after the presidential election, and the phones were ringing with calls for help and support.

April 20, 2017

First hackathon in series targets campus garden

The first in a planned series of University of Washington Bothell community hackathons aims to make improvements at the garden sprouting on campus between the north parking garage and the sports fields. The Garden Innovation Challenge on April 21 is the work of the Hackathon Series Committee, a partnership of seven student clubs and organizations.

April 12, 2017

UW Bothell team in Imagine Cup US finals

A team of University of Washington Bothell students is competing in the national finals for the Imagine Cup, the prestigious Microsoft software contest. Computing software systems seniors Darong Leng, Miyu Kimura and Shen Li are creating an “ultra-reality space” that allows people from different locations to interact using multiple devices.

April 12, 2017

‘Special spice’ in writing center consultations

The first time Gautam Kumar submitted a cybersecurity paper to a conference, it “failed spectacularly." But with assistance from the University of Washington Bothell Writing and Communications Center, Kumar succeeded in having the paper accepted at a conference in Portugal where he presented his work.

April 11, 2017

Student discovers his gift for debate

After taking Denise Vaughan’s introduction to debate class, Aaron Yared joined the UW Bothell debate team, improved his classroom performance, changed his career goal to law and won third place in the Pi Kappa Delta National Comprehensive Speech and Debate Tournament.

April 6, 2017

Internships-Veronica Cheang: Selling tea to China

For an internship course in the School of Interdisciplinary Arts & Sciences, Veronica Cheang was a marketing intern with World Trade Center Tacoma. She conducted research for a company that wanted to sell tea to China, the world’s largest tea exporter. It was a challenge, she says.

April 6, 2017

Native Girls Code, helping diversify STEM

After completing her community psychology degree with a human rights minor at the University of Washington Bothell, Shawn Peterson created a way to combine her education with her passion. She helped start Native Girls Code with the goal of introducing indigenous teen girls to opportunities in the field of science, technology, engineering and mathematics.

April 5, 2017