Students learned earlier this week that the UW made the decision to replace the usual graduation ceremony with an online commencement combined with the Bothell and Tacoma campuses. The class of 2020 was also invited to participate in the class of 2021’s commencement next June.

The UW will receive $39.7 million total from the federal CARES Act, with $19.85 million going directly to students, according to a briefing given to the Board of Regents on Thursday, April 9.  

A new study by UW Medicine shows that critically-ill patients with COVID-19 during the early stages of Seattle’s outbreak had high mortality rates and required an average of 10 days on a ventilator.

As the Senate unveiled its coronavirus stimulus package last month, Foster School of Business alumni Aubrey MacKenzie, Mason Delahooke, and Dominik Gorecki began preparing to launch Pledge 1200, a program designed for Americans to pledge their $1,200 stimulus checks to support local small bu…

Congress awarded $14 billion in emergency relief to U.S. higher education institutions last month as part of the $2 trillion coronavirus economic stimulus package. Although the exact amount that will come to UW remains to be seen, a significant portion will go toward direct grants for relief…

As the coronavirus spread throughout the United States in the first three months of 2020, governors around the nation implemented policies aimed at keeping the public safe: businesses shut down, large-scale gatherings and events were canceled, schools became virtual, and everyone was told to…

This June’s commencement ceremony will be held virtually instead of in person due to COVID-19-induced social distancing, the university announced Wednesday afternoon.

As the novel coronavirus continues to spread, classes will be conducted remotely for all of summer quarter’s A term “in order to put safety and health first, not only for our community, but for the public we serve,” President Ana Mari Cauce announced Wednesday afternoon.

COVID-19 has shaped students’ lives in numerous ways, from where they live to how they socialize and study. But for more than 800 UW students, it has meant withdrawing from spring quarter altogether.

The Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME), an independent research center within UW Medicine, says Washington’s peak dates for the amount of resources used due to COVID-19 and deaths per day has already passed, a promising sign in the state’s fight against the virus.