Center for Advances in Libraries, Museums, and Archives (CALMA)
CALMA amplifies the critical roles of libraries, museums, and archives in fostering thriving communities and elevating stories of our diverse humanity.
Center for Journalism, Media & Democracy
CJMD is a hub for research, teaching and public discussion about the forces shaping information practices, media cultures, and core democratic values.
The mission of the Center for an Informed Public is to resist strategic misinformation, promote an informed society, and strengthen democratic discourse.
Center for Research and Education on Accessible Technology and Experiences (CREATE)
The mission of CREATE is to make technology accessible and to make the world accessible through technology.
CoMotion partners with the UW community on their innovation journey, providing tools, connections, and acumen to transform ideas into economic and societal impact.
Community Data Science Collective
The Community Data Science Collective is an interdisciplinary research group using a range of quantitative and qualitative methods to study online communities.
Department of Bioethics & Humanities, UW Medicine
The Department of Bioethics & Humanities is dedicated to clarifying, studying, and teaching issues of moral importance in health care, population health, and biomedical research.
Design & Social Justice Studio
Design & Social Justice Studio is an interdisciplinary research group that examines the ethical and political dimensions of emerging technologies.
DUB’s mission is to bring together an interdisciplinary group of people to share ideas, collaborate on research, and advance teaching related to the interaction between design, people, and technology.
DXARTS | UW Seattle
The only STEAM department at UW, DXARTS redefines traditional approaches to arts research through a broad range of practices at the intersection of arts, science, and technology.
The eScience Institute collaborates with students, faculty, and researchers across the UW and beyond to make sense of their large datasets.
EarthLab’s mission is to push boundaries to develop innovative, just, and equitable solutions to environmental challenges and climate action.
Global Innovation Exchange | UW Bellevue
The University of Washington’s Global Innovation Exchange (GIX) is an engineering-and-business institute for emerging technology leaders.
Global Innovation & Design Lab | UW Tacoma
The Global Innovation and Design Lab is a space for problem solving, with expertly facilitated workshops and executive education in social innovation and design thinking.
Institute for Innovation & Global Engagement | UW Tacoma
Our mission is to create the conditions for ethical global engagement and produce innovative solutions through interdisciplinary research, inclusive practice, and community engagement.
International Adolescent Connection and Technology Laboratory (interACTlab) | UW Seattle
interACTLAB focuses on how the social and affective developmental tasks of adolescence have been transformed by the digital era—particularly in understudied populations in international settings.
LabintheWild | UW Seattle
LabintheWild is the collaborative, virtual lab for the Wild Lab research group. Wild Lab’s mission is to build systems that better support the needs and perspectives of different people.
The Language Learning Center at UW creates and provides multimedia resources for people to learn, teach, and research world languages and cultures.
Responsibility in AI Systems and Experiences (RAISE)
RAISE is a leading center for research and education: building, evaluating, and envisioning AI technologies in the area of Responsible AI.
Safe Water Equity & Longevity Lab (SWELL) | UW Seattle
SWELL studies the challenges to safe water access that impact millions of people locally and globally. We design and deploy equitable technologies to monitor and improve drinking water quality.
Science, Technology & Society (STS) | UW Bothell
The Science, Technology & Society major (STS) at the University of Washington Bothell focuses on the intersection of politics, science, law, artificial intelligence, democracy, data, philosophy, and more.
Science, Technology & Society Studies (STSS)
STSS is a domain of scholarship, community, and a graduate certificate program committed to understanding science and technologies through cultural, historical, and socio-technical analyses.
Security and Privacy Lab | UW Seattle
The Security and Privacy Lab uses a range of methodologies to research topics in computer security and privacy, including current and future risks, vulnerabilities, and human end users.
Simpson Center for the Humanities
The Simpson Center for the Humanities at UW seeks to advance vital research and spirited intellectual exchange on questions of broad and pressing concern through and across the academic fields of the humanities and the humanistic social sciences.
Space, Law, Data and Policy | UW Seattle
The Space Law, Data and Policy (SPACE LDP) Program is the world’s first interdisciplinary program focused at the nexus of outer space with law, data, and policy in global affairs.
Taskar Center for Accessible Technology (TCAT)
The Taskar Center for Accessible Technology (TCAT), develops, translates, and deploys open source universally accessible technologies, with a focus on benefiting populations with motor limitations or speech impairment.
Technology and Social Change Group (TASCHA) | UW Seattle
TASCHA is a center for multidisciplinary research that explores the complex relationship between digital technologies and society, and develops new models of digital engagement that advance community interests.
Tech Policy Lab | UW Seattle
The Tech Policy Lab is a unique, interdisciplinary collaboration at the University of Washington that aims to enhance technology policy through research, education, and thought leadership.
UW-QUAL is a university-wide education and training platform for qualitative researchers in the social sciences, global and regional studies, medicine, health, nursing, technology, and international security.
UW Reality Lab | UW Seattle
UW Reality Lab aims to advance virtual and augmented reality by developing new technologies and applications, educating future researchers and technologists, and supporting industry collaborations.
