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UW professor looks for ways to make the ethical best of AI-enhanced learning

When generative artificial intelligence, or AI, dropped into our lives two and a half years ago, educators around the world went into a panic. Suddenly there was a chatbot easily accessible to students that could help them cheat on tests and assignments and likely get away with it. Fast forward, and now students are complaining that teachers are using AI in their jobs, and they don't like it. Should they? Katy Pearce is an associate professor in the University of Washington's Department of Communication. She researches social and political uses of technologies and digital content. KUOW’s Kim Malcolm talked to her about how students and teachers are navigating their use of AI technology.
- John O'Brien
UW project took nuisance seaweed from shellfish farm to help growers. The USDA cut its funding

A $5 million grant to promote climate-smart farm practices that funded the Blue Carbon, Green Fields project was cancelled by the USDA.
- Ruby de Luna
21 students suspended, banned after UW protest

The University of Washington has banned and suspended 21 students who were arrested at a protest at the Seattle campus Monday night.
- Scott Greenstone
UW president warns of budget crisis, potential layoffs

During a virtual town hall meeting Wednesday, University of Washington President Ana Mari Cauce said funding cuts from both the state and federal government are putting the UW in a budget crisis comparable to the Great Recession of 2008.
- Natalie Akane Newcomb
UW officials, police unclear how many arrested pro-Palestinian protesters were students

Pro-Palestinian protesters could be facing charges of trespassing, property destruction, disorderly conduct, and conspiracy to commit all three after taking over the University of Washington Interdisciplinary Engineering Building Monday night.
- John O'Brien
Trump administration launches antisemitism probe into UW following protest

Thirty-two protesters who occupied the University of Washington’s new engineering building were arrested Monday night, according to the King County Prosecuting Attorney's Office.
- Scott Greenstone
14 student visas revoked at UW, Seattle University, and Gonzaga

The number of students in Washington state who have had their visas revoked has climbed to 14, with the addition of two students from Gonzaga University in Spokane.
- Gustavo Sagrero Álvarez
Has the U.S. revoked visas for UW or WSU students?

Washington universities are on edge with this month's news of federal agents detaining students with green cards, and the U.S. revoking visas, of protesters who criticized Israel's war in Gaza.
- Scott Greenstone
Grab your binoculars — Seattle's skies abound with eagles this season

The skies above Seattle have been busy with lots of bald eagles as spring approaches. Meanwhile, local bird enthusiasts say the season seems busier than usual this year.
- Casey Martin
How far could Trump’s NIH funding cuts set medical innovation back? By decades, UW researchers warn

The Trump administration has cut NIH funding levels and paused new and existing grants from the agency, which totalled $35 billion in 2023. That’s left critical studies of various illnesses and drugs that could help treat them on pause. Doctors, researchers, and scientists who have spent years and often decades studying chronic diseases worry the cuts will have long-lasting consequences for public health and medical innovation.
- Stephen Howie

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