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Team of UW seniors wins ‘Re-imagining Red Square’ design competition “Re-imagining Red Square” - a design contest that explore the idea of a redesigned Red Square at the UW Seattle Campus - announces the winning team. Read More

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UW students face food, housing insecurity, survey shows A survey of food and housing insecurity at the University of Washington’s three campuses shows that an estimated 190 students may lack a stable place to live, and about one-quarter of students have worried recently about having enough to eat. Read More

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Husky Builders Go For Gold in Green Energy Challenge Students from the College of Built Environments' Construction Management department are once again participating in the National Electrical Contractors Association (NECA) Green Energy Challenge. Read More

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‘Carbon accountability’: UW architecture professor Kate Simonen sees progress in work to reduce embodied carbon in construction materials “We acknowledge that we hold this world in trust and recognize the immediate threat climate change and its impacts pose to current and future generations,” reads a statement signed this fall by more than 100 construction-related companies and nonprofits. Read More

Parks help cities – but only if people use them In cities, access to parks is strongly linked with better health for both people and neighborhoods. But access to green space is not the only ingredient in creating healthy communities. Explore new research on the health impacts of parks. Read More

Why do so many new apartment buildings in Seattle look the same? Video Interview with Assistant Professor Rick Mohler by Eric Keto, KCTS9 Read More