University of Washington

The University of Washington, commonly called UW or U-Dub, is a public research university in Seattle, Washington, United States, and the flagship of the state's six public universities.华盛顿大学（University of Washington），简称 UW 或 U-Dub，是位于美国华盛顿州西雅图的一所公立研究型大学，也是该州六所公立大学中的旗舰校。

Founded on 4 November 1861 as the Territorial University of Washington, it is one of the oldest universities on the West Coast and a member of the Association of American Universities.学校于 1861 年 11 月 4 日以华盛顿领地大学之名创办，是美国西海岸历史最悠久的大学之一，也是美国大学协会成员。

In fall 2024 it enrolled 51,719 students, of whom 35,397 were undergraduates and 16,322 postgraduates, taught by 5,803 faculty, and it placed 92nd in the 2027 QS World University Rankings.2024 年秋季全校在校学生 51719 人，其中本科生 35397 人、研究生 16322 人，教师 5803 人，在 2027 年 QS 世界大学排名中并列第 92。

History

• In 1854 the territorial governor Isaac Stevens recommended that a university be established in the Washington Territory, and the Seattle residents Daniel Bagley and Arthur A. Denny took up the idea.1854 年，华盛顿领地总督艾萨克·史蒂文斯建议在领地内建立一所大学，西雅图居民丹尼尔·巴格利与亚瑟·丹尼随即推动此事。

• After two rival charters were repealed and no site emerged in Lewis County, Denny petitioned the legislature in 1858 to place the projected university in Seattle instead.在两份相互竞争的建校特许先后被撤销、刘易斯县又拿不出校址后，丹尼于 1858 年向议会请愿，把拟建的大学改设于西雅图。

• In 1861 a ten-acre site was chosen in downtown Seattle, with Arthur and Mary Denny donating eight acres and the pioneers Edward Lander and Charlie and Mary Terry giving two acres on Denny's Knoll.1861 年，西雅图市中心选定了十英亩校址，其中亚瑟·丹尼与玛丽·丹尼捐出八英亩，拓荒者爱德华·兰德与查理·特里夫妇捐出丹尼斯丘上的两英亩。

• The university opened on 4 November 1861 as the Territorial University of Washington, having been built by John Pike, for whom Seattle's Pike Street is named.学校于 1861 年 11 月 4 日以华盛顿领地大学之名开学，校舍由约翰·派克主持建造，西雅图的派克街即以其命名。

• The territorial legislature passed articles incorporating the university and established its Board of Regents in 1862.1862 年，领地议会通过特许状将学校正式纳入建制，并设立校董会。

• The young institution struggled and closed three times, in 1863 for low enrolment and again in 1867 and 1876 for a shortage of funds.这所年轻的学校处境艰难，曾三度停办，1863 年因招生不足，1867 年与 1876 年则因经费短缺。

• Washington awarded its first degree in 1876 to Clara Antoinette McCarty Wilt, who received a Bachelor of Science.1876 年，学校授予克拉拉·安东瓦内特·麦卡蒂·威尔特第一个学位，为理学学士。

• By the time Washington became a state in 1889 enrolment had grown from 30 to nearly 300, and a committee under the graduate Edmond Meany chose a new site at Union Bay.到 1889 年华盛顿建州时，在校人数已从 30 人增至近 300 人，由校友埃德蒙·米尼领衔的委员会选定了联合湾的新校址。

• In 1895 the university moved to the new campus and into the newly built Denny Hall, while the old downtown site became the Metropolitan Tract, later a valuable source of rental income.1895 年，学校迁入新校区新落成的丹尼楼，位于市中心的旧址则成为「都会地块」，后来带来可观的租金收入。

• The original Territorial University building was demolished in 1908, but four hand-fluted Ionic cedar columns were saved by Edmond Meany and now stand in the Sylvan Grove Theater.原领地大学教学楼于 1908 年拆除，但埃德蒙·米尼抢救下四根手工凹槽的雪松爱奥尼柱，如今矗立于林间剧场。

• The 1909 Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition was held on the largely undeveloped campus, and its Olmsted-designed layout permanently shaped the campus plan around today's Drumheller Fountain.1909 年的阿拉斯加-育空-太平洋博览会在这片尚未开发的校园举行，其奥姆斯特德式布局永久影响了校园规划，奠定了今日德拉姆海勒喷泉周边格局。

• Construction of the Liberal Arts Quadrangle, known to students as the Quad, ran from 1916 to 1939, and the university's architectural centrepiece, Suzzallo Library, was built in 1926 and enlarged in 1935.文理方庭被学生称作「方庭」，1916 至 1939 年间陆续建成，而学校的建筑核心苏萨罗图书馆建于 1926 年，1935 年扩建。

• After Executive Order 9066 in 1942, president Lee Paul Sieg worked sympathetically to help Japanese American students transfer to universities away from the Pacific Coast and avoid incarceration.1942 年第 9066 号行政令颁布后，校长李·保罗·西格以同情之心设法帮助日裔美国学生转往太平洋沿岸以外的大学，以免被拘禁。

• On 2 October 1946 the university opened a medical school as part of a School of Health Sciences, with the GI Bill providing 3.75 million dollars for buildings and 450,000 dollars for salaries.1946 年 10 月 2 日，学校设立医学院作为健康科学学院的一部分，《退伍军人法案》为此提供 375 万美元建筑经费与 45 万美元薪金。

• In 1954 the physics department nominated J. Robert Oppenheimer to lecture for a week, but loyalty checks by the federal government prevented him from attending.1954 年物理系提名罗伯特·奥本海默前来授课一周，但因联邦政府的忠诚审查，他未能成行。

• From 1958 to 1973, under president Charles Odegaard, the operating budget rose from 37 million to more than 400 million dollars and enrolment more than doubled to 34,000.1958 至 1973 年在校长查尔斯·奥德高的带领下，学校运营预算从 3700 万美元增至逾 4 亿美元，在校人数倍增到 34000 人。

• In 1969 the football coach Jim Owens suspended four Black players, triggering protests, and in 1970 the African American doctor Robert Flennaugh was appointed to the Board of Regents.1969 年橄榄球主教练吉姆·欧文斯令四名黑人球员停赛，引发抗议，1970 年非裔医生罗伯特·弗伦诺被任命为校董。

• Student activism peaked in May 1975 when 2,000 students protested the university's hiring practices, part of a long tradition of civil rights and anti-war organising.1975 年 5 月学生运动达到高潮，两千名学生抗议学校的聘用做法，这是学校长期民权与反战运动的延续。

• In 1990 the university opened additional campuses at Bothell and Tacoma, which grew from two-year upper-division schools into four-year universities that admitted their first freshmen in 2006.1990 年学校在博塞尔与塔科马开设分校区，两地后来从两年制高年级学院发展为四年制大学，并于 2006 年首次招收大一新生。

• A light rail station serving the campus opened in March 2016, linking the University District to downtown Seattle in a few minutes of travel.2016 年 3 月，服务校园的轻轨车站启用，把大学区与西雅图市中心拉近到几分钟车程。

• Robert J. Jones became the university's 34th president in August 2025, succeeding Ana Mari Cauce.罗伯特·琼斯于 2025 年 8 月接替安娜·玛丽·考斯，出任学校第 34 任校长。

Academics

• The university awards bachelor's, master's and doctoral degrees through about 140 departments organised into its colleges and schools.学校通过约 140 个系所授予学士、硕士与博士学位，这些系所分属各学院。

• Its colleges and schools include Arts and Sciences, Built Environments, the Foster School of Business, Dentistry, Education, Engineering, the Environment, the Information School, Law, Medicine, Nursing, Pharmacy, the Evans School of Public Policy, Public Health, Social Work and the Graduate School.其学院包括文理、城市建筑、福斯特商学院、牙医、教育、工程、环境、信息、法学、医学、护理、药学、埃文斯公共政策、公共卫生、社会工作等学院以及研究生院。

• The Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science and Engineering is named after the Microsoft co-founder, who with Bill Gates used campus computer labs before founding the company.保罗·艾伦计算机科学与工程学院以微软联合创始人命名，他与比尔·盖茨在创办微软前曾使用校园的计算机房。

• In fall 2024 the university had 51,719 students and 5,803 faculty, with international students making up about 15 percent of both undergraduate and postgraduate cohorts.2024 年秋季学校有学生 51719 人、教师 5803 人，国际学生约占本科与研究生人数的 15%。

• Admission is test-blind and, for the 2024 entering class, 39.5 percent of applicants were admitted, the median high-school GPA was 3.82 and the freshman retention rate was 93 percent.学校录取不参考标准化考试成绩，2024 级录取率为 39.5%，新生高中绩点中位数为 3.82，大一留存率为 93%。

• According to the National Science Foundation the university spent 1.73 billion dollars on research and development in 2024, ranking fifth in the United States.据美国国家科学基金会统计，学校 2024 年科研与开发支出为 17.3 亿美元，位居全美第五。

• Its School of Medicine is consistently ranked among the leading medical schools in the country, and UW Medical Center is rated by US News as one of the top ten hospitals in the nation.其医学院长期位居全美领先医学院之列，华盛顿大学医疗中心被《美国新闻与世界报道》评为全美十佳医院之一。

• The university uses capacity-constrained majors, requiring many students to apply to an internal college and be screened on academic performance, references and activities.学校实行限额专业制度，许多学生须申请内部学院，并依据学业表现、推荐信与课外活动接受筛选。

• Launched in 2006, the Husky Promise covers tuition for students from families earning up to 65 percent of the state median income, one of the highest such thresholds in the country.2006 年推出的「哈士奇承诺」为家庭收入不超过州中位数 65% 的学生免除学费，这一门槛在全美同类政策中最高之列。

• The university operates more than 26 libraries holding over 7.5 million volumes, among the largest library systems in the world.学校运营二十余所图书馆，藏书逾 750 万册，是全球规模最大的图书馆体系之一。

• For 2024 US News placed its medical primary-care programme 2nd, its doctorate in nursing 1st and its library and information studies 2nd nationally.《美国新闻与世界报道》2024 年将其实用导向的医学项目列全美第 2、护理博士项目第 1、图书馆与信息研究第 2。

• The Applied Physics Laboratory completed the first high-power underwater cabled observatory in the United States in 2014, and university researchers discovered arsenic-breathing microbes in the Pacific.其应用物理实验室于 2014 年建成美国首个高功率海底缆式观测站，学校研究人员还在太平洋发现了依靠砷呼吸的微生物。

• The university runs a Transition School and Early Entrance Program, begun in 1977, for academically advanced young students.学校设有「过渡学校与提前入学项目」，始于 1977 年，面向学业突出的低龄学生。

• The university follows a quarter system, teaching about 1,800 courses each quarter and awarding more than 12,000 degrees a year.学校实行学季制，每学季开设约 1800 门课程，每年授予逾 12000 个学位。

• The Foster School of Business and the law school are highly selective, and the law faculty publishes the Pacific Rim Law and Policy Journal.福斯特商学院与法学院录取竞争激烈，法学院师生还出版《环太平洋法律与政策期刊》。

• University support comes from donors including Bill Gates and the Gates Foundation, Microsoft, Boeing, Amazon and the late Paul G. Allen, whose giving is described as unmatched in its impact.学校的捐助者包括比尔·盖茨与盖茨基金会、微软、波音、亚马逊以及已故的保罗·艾伦，其捐赠影响之大被形容为无可比拟。

• The university is a partner of the University of the Arctic and takes part in its student mobility programme for the northern regions.学校是北极大学网络的合作成员，并参与其面向北极地区的学生流动项目。

Campus

• The main campus occupies about 700 acres in Seattle's University District on the shores of Union and Portage Bays, bounded by NE 45th Street and NE Pacific Street.主校区占地约 700 英亩，位于西雅图大学区联合湾与波蒂奇湾沿岸，北至东北 45 街，南至东北太平洋街。

• Red Square, paved in red brick, is the heart of the campus and is surrounded by Suzzallo Library, the Broken Obelisk and a statue of George Washington.以红砖铺就的红场是校园中心，四周环绕着苏萨罗图书馆、断方尖碑与乔治·华盛顿雕像。

• University Way, known locally as The Ave, lies just west of campus and is a centre of student life, shops and restaurants.大学路被本地人称作「大道」，位于校园西侧，是学生生活、商店与餐馆的聚集地。

• The university encompasses more than 500 buildings and over 20 million gross square feet of floor space.学校拥有逾 500 栋建筑，室内建筑面积超过 2000 万平方英尺。

• The Burke Museum of Natural History and Culture holds a 66-million-year-old Tyrannosaurus rex skull, one of only fifteen known, and the Henry Art Gallery stages modern exhibitions.伯克自然历史与文化博物馆藏有一具 6600 万年前的霸王龙头骨，全球已知仅十五具之一，亨利美术馆则常办现代艺术展。

• Suzzallo Library, a Gothic-revival landmark, has a celebrated reading room with stained-glass windows, and the Domed Reading Room is a symbol of the university.哥特复兴风格的苏萨罗图书馆拥有著名的阅览室与彩绘玻璃窗，其穹顶阅览室是学校的象征。

• Husky Stadium, rebuilt in 2013 at a cost of about 280 million dollars, seats 70,138 and is served by its own light rail station.海斯基体育场于 2013 年以约 2.8 亿美元重建，可容纳 70138 人，并设有专属轻轨车站。

• The campus is laid out in north, south, east and west sections, the north holding the Quad and most historic academic buildings, the east the sports facilities, and the south, by the Lake Washington Ship Canal, the health sciences.校园分为北、南、东、西四区，北区有方庭与大部分历史教学建筑，东区集中体育设施，南区临华盛顿湖运河，为健康科学所在。

• Drumheller Fountain faces Mount Rainier, which is visible on clear days, and the quad's cherry trees draw crowds each spring.德拉姆海勒喷泉正对雷尼尔山，晴朗时可远眺雪峰，方庭的樱花每年春天吸引大批人群。

Reputation

• Washington ranks 92nd in the 2027 QS World University Rankings, 26th in the 2027 Times Higher Education World University Rankings, 12th in the 2026-2027 US News Best Global Universities and 16th in the 2026 Academic Ranking of World Universities.华盛顿大学在 2027 年 QS 世界大学排名中并列第 92，2027 年泰晤士高等教育世界大学排名第 26，2026 至 2027 年度美国新闻全球最佳大学排名第 12，2026 年软科世界大学学术排名第 16。^[1]

• The Academic Ranking of World Universities has placed it among the top twenty universities worldwide in every edition since the ranking first appeared.自软科世界大学学术排名首次发布以来，该校在每一版中均位列全球前二十。

• In 2024 US News ranked its medical primary-care programme 2nd, its nursing doctorate 1st and its library and information studies 2nd nationally.2024 年《美国新闻与世界报道》将其医学基层医疗项目列为全美第 2、护理博士项目第 1、图书馆与信息研究第 2。

• According to OpenAlex the university has produced 543,116 works cited 106,090,935 times, one of the largest research outputs in the world.据 OpenAlex 统计，学校累计发表论著 543116 篇，被引用 106090935 次，科研产出规模居全球前列。

• It is a member of the Association of American Universities and has been listed among the Public Ivies since 2001.学校是美国大学协会成员，自 2001 年起被列入「公立常春藤」之列。

• Twenty-one Nobel laureates have been associated with the university as alumni or faculty, together with a number of Pulitzer Prize winners.共有二十一位诺贝尔奖得主曾以校友或教师身份与学校相关，此外还有多位普利策奖得主。

• Its faculty has included eight Nobel laureates, one Fields medallist and one Turing Award winner, along with 68 members of the National Academy of Sciences.其教师队伍中曾有八位诺贝尔奖得主、一位菲尔兹奖得主与一位图灵奖得主，另有 68 位美国国家科学院院士。

• The university is a leading producer of Fulbright Scholars, ranking second in the United States in 2017, and counts 136 Fulbright, 35 Rhodes and seven Marshall scholars among its students.学校是富布赖特学者的重要输送校，2017 年位列全美第二，学生中已有 136 位富布赖特学者、35 位罗德学者与 7 位马歇尔学者。

• Its 22 varsity teams, the Huskies, compete in NCAA Division I and joined the Big Ten Conference in 2024 after decades in the Pac-12, and the football team won national titles in 1960 and 1991.该校 22 支校队统称哈士奇，参加美国大学体育协会一级联赛，在太平洋十二校联盟数十年后于 2024 年转入十大联盟，其橄榄球队曾于 1960 年与 1991 年夺得全国冠军。

Student life

• The university motto is Lux sit, Latin for Let there be light.学校校训为「Lux sit」，是拉丁语「要有光」之意。

• The colours purple and gold were adopted by student vote in 1892, inspired by a line in Lord Byron's poem The Destruction of Sennacherib.紫色与金色于 1892 年由学生投票确定为校色，灵感来自拜伦诗作《西拿基立的毁灭》中的一句。

• The mascot is Harry the Husky, while a live Alaskan malamute traditionally leads the football team onto the field, and the husky was chosen as the university emblem in 1922.吉祥物是「哈士奇哈利」，一头活体阿拉斯加雪橇犬传统上会带领橄榄球队入场，雪橇犬形象于 1922 年被选定为学校标志。

• More than 800 registered student organizations operate on campus, covering academics, culture, politics, religion, sports and international groups.校园内有逾 800 个登记学生组织，涵盖学术、文化、政治、宗教、体育与国际团体。

• The Associated Students of the University of Washington, incorporated in 1906, is one of two student governments and spends over a million dollars a year on student services.华盛顿大学学生联合会成立于 1906 年，是两大学生会之一，每年在学生服务上投入逾百万美元。

• The student newspaper is The Daily of the University of Washington, and The Tyee formerly served as the official student yearbook.学生报纸为《华盛顿大学日报》，而《蒂伊》曾是学校的官方学生年鉴。

• The Greek system has been part of student culture for more than 115 years and includes 34 fraternities and 19 sororities.希腊字母社团体系已融入学生文化逾 115 年，包括 34 个兄弟会与 19 个姐妹会。

• Rowing has been a tradition since 1901, and the men's eight won Olympic gold in Berlin in 1936, a story told in the book The Boys in the Boat.赛艇传统可追溯到 1901 年，男子八人艇于 1936 年柏林奥运会夺得金牌，这段故事被写入《船上的男孩》一书。

• The Apple Cup against Washington State University has been contested since 1900, and boat tailgating at Husky Stadium has been a tradition since the stadium opened in 1920.与华盛顿州立大学之间的「苹果杯」始于 1900 年，而在海斯基体育场船上聚会看球则是自 1920 年球场落成以来的传统。

• The campus houses a DO-IT centre that helps universities integrate students with disabilities into academic life.校园设有 DO-IT 中心，帮助各高校把残障学生融入学术生活。

Notable people

• Arthur A. Denny and his wife Mary Denny donated the land on which the university was built and are regarded as its founding benefactors.亚瑟·丹尼及其妻子玛丽·丹尼捐出建校土地，被视为学校的创办恩主。

• Edmond Meany, one of the university's first graduates, led the search for the present campus and later headed its history department, saving the old building's Ionic columns.埃德蒙·米尼是学校最早的一批毕业生之一，主持选定了现校址，后任历史系主任，并抢救了老建筑的几根爱奥尼柱。

• Henry Suzzallo, president in the early twentieth century, gave his name to the university's landmark library.二十世纪初任校长的亨利·苏萨罗，其名字被学校的地标图书馆所沿用。

• Charles Odegaard, president from 1958 to 1973, led the expansion that more than doubled enrolment and multiplied the research budget.1958 至 1973 年任校长的查尔斯·奥德高主导扩张，使在校人数倍增、科研预算成倍增长。

• Linda B. Buck, who shared the 2004 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for her work on olfactory receptors, was a student at the university.因嗅觉受体研究分享 2004 年诺贝尔生理学或医学奖的琳达·巴克，曾在该校就读。

• The physicist Hans Dehmelt, who shared the 1989 Nobel Prize in Physics, was a long-serving professor at the university.分享 1989 年诺贝尔物理学奖的物理学家汉斯·德默尔特，曾长期在该校任教。

• George Stigler, who won the 1982 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences, and Leland Hartwell, who shared the 2001 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, both graduated from the university.获 1982 年诺贝尔经济学奖的乔治·斯蒂格勒与分享 2001 年诺贝尔生理学或医学奖的利兰·哈特韦尔，均毕业于该校。

• Minoru Yamasaki, the architect who designed the World Trade Center towers, graduated from the university in 1934.设计世界贸易中心双塔的建筑师山崎实于 1934 年毕业于该校。

• Bruce Lee, the martial artist and actor who popularised Chinese martial arts worldwide, studied drama at the university in the early 1960s.把中国武术推向世界的武术家兼演员李小龙，二十世纪六十年代初曾在学校学习戏剧。

• Other alumni include the glass artist Dale Chihuly, the saxophonist Kenny G, the Pulitzer-winning novelist Marilynne Robinson and the architect of the Apple board Arthur Levinson.其他校友还包括玻璃艺术家戴尔·奇胡利、萨克斯演奏家肯尼·基、普利策奖小说家玛丽莲·罗宾逊以及苹果公司董事会主席亚瑟·莱文森。