Thanksgiving Day
Holidays
No classes. Most University offices and buildings are closed. Check with specific offices to confirm.
Event interval: Single day event. Year: 2025. Quarter: Autumn. Event Types: Academics.
Thursday, November 27, 2025.
For more info visit www.washington.edu. Native American Heritage Day
Holidays
No classes. Most University offices and buildings are closed. Check with specific offices to confirm.
Event interval: Single day event. Year: 2025. Quarter: Autumn. Event Types: Academics.
Friday, November 28, 2025.
For more info visit www.washington.edu. Improving Accessibility in Computing Courses: Open office hours
Drop-in (online via Zoom) office hours for computing instructors to talk through, co-design, or evaluate efforts to make computing course resources more accessible. Potential topics include broad overviews on digital accessibility, discuss auditing and remediation strategies for specific types of content (e.g. PDFs, websites, videos, math, diagrams), or co-develop a plan for implementing accessibility (for example, making a checklist, planning TA or staff trainings, or evaluating automated tools and their shortcomings).
Join the Zoom session during these times:
Thu, Sept 18 at 10 a.m. - Noon
Mon, Oct 6 at 9 - 11 a.m.
Thu, Oct 16 at 10 a.m. - Noon
Mon, Nov 3 at 9 - 11 a.m.
Thu, Nov 20 at 10 a.m. - Noon
Mon, Dec 1 at 9 - 11 a.m.
Thu, Dec 18 at 10 a.m. - Noon
Consultants: Kevin Lin and Matt Wang, Kevin Lin and Matt Wang are both teaching professors at the Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Washington. They have prior experience in and are happy to consult about web…
Event interval: Single day event. Online Meeting Link: https://washington.zoom.us/j/98992837185. Accessibility Contact: doit@uw.edu. Event Types: Diversity Equity Inclusion. Information Sessions. Special Events. Academics. Target Audience: Computing instructors.
Monday, December 1, 2025, 9:00 AM – 11:00 AM.
For more info visit washington.zoom.us. CREATE Accessibility Seminar - Autumn quarter
The Autumn 2025 seminar theme is Art and Accessibility. Each week, we explore works of disabled artists, scholars, and technologists to understand how access intersects with different art forms/modalities. Alongside these, we explore how accessibility technologists have begun to engage with this space.
The format is largely discussion-based, with occasional guest speakers. Please join us!
The course website has a tentative schedule.
Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Bill & Melinda Gates Center for Computer Science & Engineering (CSE2). Online Meeting Link: https://washington.zoom.us/j/96652460861. Campus room: 387. Accessibility Contact: aashakad@cs.washington.edu. Event Types: Academics. Lectures/Seminars. Diversity Equity Inclusion. Target Audience: Grad students and faculty working on accessibility and accessible technology.
Monday, December 1, 2025, 3:00 PM – 4:00 PM.
For more info visit create.uw.edu. Course Showcase: User Centered Design (HCDE 518 - A&B)
Join the Department of Human Centered Design & Engineering for our end-of-quarter course showcases and view projects by current students. Light refreshments will be provided.
Find additional Autumn 2025 Course Showcases on the HCDE calendar. User Centered Design (HCDE 518 - A&B), Instructors: Doug Pyle & Linda Wagner
Join HCDE for a showcase of human-centered design projects with digital and physical solutions. This showcase has two sections happening concurrently, one in Odegaard 121 and one in Mary Gates Hall 241. Come view the creativity and the diversity of ideas!
Questions? Contact Doug Pyle at dougdoug@uw.edu.
Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Odegaard Undergraduate Library (OUG). Campus room: Odegaard 121. Accessibility Contact: hcdehelp@uw.edu. Event Types: Exhibits. Special Events.
Monday, December 1, 2025, 6:30 PM – 8:00 PM.
Course Showcase: User Centered Design (HCDE 518 - A&B)
Join the Department of Human Centered Design & Engineering for our end-of-quarter course showcases and view projects by current students. Light refreshments will be provided.
Find additional Autumn 2025 Course Showcases on the HCDE calendar. User Centered Design (HCDE 518 - A&B), Instructors: Daniella Kim & Rebecca Destello
Join HCDE for a showcase of human-centered design projects with digital and physical solutions. This showcase has two sections happening concurrently, one in Odegaard 121 and one in Mary Gates Hall 241. Come view the creativity and the diversity of ideas!
Questions? Contact Daniella Kim at dkella@uw.edu.
Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Mary Gates Hall (MGH). Campus room: MGH 241. Accessibility Contact: hcdehelp@uw.edu. Event Types: Exhibits. Special Events.
Monday, December 1, 2025, 6:30 PM – 8:00 PM.
MS Technology Innovation Demo Day
Join us for Demo Day at the University of Washington’s acclaimed Global Innovation Exchange (GIX) in Bellevue, Washington, where students will showcase their work in their prototyping and fabrication classes.
Meet students and faculty from the one-of-a-kind Master of Science in Technology Innovation (MSTI), an integrated engineering, business and design degree program, where students learn prototyping, electrical and computing fundamentals, user-centered design, and core business skills – all aimed at addressing today’s pressing challenges through the responsible application of advanced technologies.
Join us for this special opportunity to meet students, experience our spaces, and check out what the MSTI and GIX have to offer!
Event interval: Single day event. Accessibility Contact: msti@uw.edu. Event Types: Information Sessions. Exhibits. Target Audience: Prospective Graduate Students.
Wednesday, December 3, 2025, 10:00 AM – 11:30 AM.
12280 NE District Way, Bellevue WA 98005.
For more info visit www.gix.uw.edu. Course Showcase: Material and Cultural Bias in Algorithmic Systems (HCDE/DXARTS 485)
Join the Department of Human Centered Design & Engineering for our end-of-quarter course showcases and view projects by current students. Light refreshments will be provided.
Find additional Autumn 2025 Course Showcases on the HCDE calendar. Material and Cultural Bias in Algorithmic Systems (HCDE/DXARTS 485), Instructors: Daniela Rosner & Afroditi Psarra
Join HCDE and DXARTS for an open course showcase featuring student artworks—spanning sculpture, interactive multimedia, and participatory performance—that explore bias in algorithms.
Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: McMahon Hall (MCM). Campus room: DxArts gallery, McMahon Hall. Accessibility Contact: hcdehelp@uw.edu. Event Types: Exhibits. Special Events.
Wednesday, December 3, 2025, 2:30 PM – 4:20 PM.
Course Showcase: Experimental Research Methods (HCDE 516)
Join the Department of Human Centered Design & Engineering for our end-of-quarter course showcases and view projects by current students. Light refreshments will be provided.
Find additional Autumn 2025 Course Showcases on the HCDE calendar. Course Showcase: Experimental Research Methods (HCDE 516), Instructors: Sourojit Ghosh & Georgia Kenderova
Join HCDE for a showcase of projects based on large survey data, followed by quantitative analysis and statistical testing.
Questions? Contact Sourojit Ghosh at ghosh100@uw.edu.
Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Sieg Building (SIG). Campus room: SIG 433. Accessibility Contact: hcdehelp@uw.edu. Event Types: Exhibits. Special Events.
Wednesday, December 3, 2025, 6:15 PM – 8:15 PM.
Distinguished Lecture Series: Michael Abrash - Reality Labs Research: A look back, a look forward
Abstract
11 years ago, as Michael started what was then called Oculus Research, at Facebook, he gave a talk at UW about the potential he saw in virtual reality. That talk turned out to be a pivotal moment on the path to where what is now called Reality Labs Research, at what is now called Meta. He’ll look at what his goals were back then and how that’s worked out in both expected and surprising ways, where things are today, and what might be coming over the upcoming years. BioMichael Abrash is the Chief Scientist of Facebook Reality Labs, a research laboratory that brings together a world-class R&D team of scientists, developers and engineers to build the future of connection via virtual reality, augmented reality, and wearables. He was graphics leads for the first two versions of Windows NT, teamed with John Carmack on Quake, worked on the first two versions of Microsoft’s Xbox, and helped develop virtual reality at Valve. He is also the author of several books, including Michael Abrash’s Programming Black…
Event interval: Single day event. Accessibility Contact: dso@uw.edu. Event Types: Lectures/Seminars.
Thursday, December 4, 2025, 3:30 PM – 4:30 PM.
Gates Center (CSE2), G20 | Amazon Auditorium.
For more info visit www.cs.washington.edu. HCDE Research Speaker Series: Sucheta Ghoshal
Join us each week for the HCDE Research Speaker Series, where faculty and PhD students share the ideas shaping the future of research in Human Centered Design and Engineering. Presentations showcase recent work across design, data science, technology, and society, offering insights into how researchers are tackling complex problems and imagining new possibilities.
All talks are open to the public. Whether you’re a student, researcher, practitioner, or simply curious about how HCDE research, you’re invited to learn, ask questions, and be part of the discussion.
Talk details coming soon.
About the presenter, Sucheta Ghoshal is an assistant professor at the Department of Human Centered Design & Engineering at the University of Washington (UW) where she directs the research group Inquilab. She is interested in studying—and building—computational cultures that refuse, resist, subvert, or exceed the state and market imaginaries of computing. As a community organizer and researcher, she has worked across South…
Event interval: Ongoing event. Campus location: Sieg Building (SIG). Campus room: 134. Accessibility Contact: hcdehelp@uw.edu. Event Types: Lectures/Seminars.
Thursday, December 4, 2025, 4:30 PM – 5:20 PM.
For more info visit www.hcde.washington.edu. Course Showcase: Ideation Studio (HCID 511)
The HCDE and UW community is invited to an end-of-quarter course showcase in the Master of Human-Computer Interaction and Design (MHCI+D) program.
Find additional Autumn 2025 Course Showcases on the HCDE calendar. Ideation Studio (HCID 511), Instructors: Julie Kientz & Roark Congdon
View final poster presentations by students completing their first course final projects in the UW MHCI+D program. Projects primarily focus on empathizing, design, and ideation of ideas, on topics ranging from designs supporting young investors, pet adoption matching, adult children of emotionally immature parents, and people looking to connect socially.
Event interval: Single day event. Campus room: MHCI+D studio: 2nd floor, 45th Street Plaza. Accessibility Contact: hcdehelp@uw.edu. Event Types: Exhibits. Special Events.
Monday, December 8, 2025, 4:00 PM – 6:00 PM.
1100 NE 45th St, Seattle, WA 98105.
MS in Technology Innovation Info Session
Attend a virtual information session to learn more about the full-time Master of Science in Technology Innovation. Join us to learn about the program, projects, and curriculum, as well as how to apply, application requirements, and best practices.
Event interval: Single day event. Online Meeting Link: https://engrwashington.event451.sites.451.io/event/1064635. Accessibility Contact: msti@uw.edu. Event Types: Information Sessions. Target Audience: Prospective Graduate Students.
Tuesday, December 9, 2025, 6:00 PM – 6:45 PM.
For more info visit www.gix.uw.edu. Master of Science in HCDE: Information Session
Interested in learning more about the Master of Science in Human Centered Design & Engineering?
This session will provide an overview of the degree program, including curriculum, admissions requirements, and application, with time to meet with current students at the end.
RSVP here ».
Event interval: Single day event. Accessibility Contact: Alex Llapitan. Event Types: Information Sessions. Target Audience: Prospective HCDE Master's Students.
Wednesday, December 10, 2025, 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM.
For more info visit engrwashington.event451.sites.451.io. Drop-In Advising: Prospective HCDE BS Transfer Students
Are you a prospective transfer student interested in learning about the undergraduate program in Human Centered Design & Engineering? Join our undergraduate peer advisers to learn more about HCDE and discuss any questions you may have about applying to HCDE as a transfer student.
This event is part of UW's Transfer Student Preview Day.
Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Sieg Building (SIG). Campus room: Sieg 423. Accessibility Contact: Meghan Oxley, what@uw.edu. Event Types: Academics. Target Audience: Prospective transfer students interested in learning more about applying to the HCDE BS program.
Thursday, December 11, 2025, 2:15 PM – 3:15 PM.
Improving Accessibility in Computing Courses: Open office hours
Drop-in (online via Zoom) office hours for computing instructors to talk through, co-design, or evaluate efforts to make computing course resources more accessible. Potential topics include broad overviews on digital accessibility, discuss auditing and remediation strategies for specific types of content (e.g. PDFs, websites, videos, math, diagrams), or co-develop a plan for implementing accessibility (for example, making a checklist, planning TA or staff trainings, or evaluating automated tools and their shortcomings).
Join the Zoom session during these times:
Thu, Sept 18 at 10 a.m. - Noon
Mon, Oct 6 at 9 - 11 a.m.
Thu, Oct 16 at 10 a.m. - Noon
Mon, Nov 3 at 9 - 11 a.m.
Thu, Nov 20 at 10 a.m. - Noon
Mon, Dec 1 at 9 - 11 a.m.
Thu, Dec 18 at 10 a.m. - Noon
Consultants: Kevin Lin and Matt Wang, Kevin Lin and Matt Wang are both teaching professors at the Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Washington. They have prior experience in and are happy to consult about web…
Event interval: Single day event. Online Meeting Link: https://washington.zoom.us/j/98992837185. Accessibility Contact: doit@uw.edu. Event Types: Diversity Equity Inclusion. Information Sessions. Special Events. Academics. Target Audience: Computing instructors.
Thursday, December 18, 2025, 10:00 AM – 12:00 PM.
For more info visit washington.zoom.us. Christmas Day
Holidays
No classes. Most University offices and buildings are closed. Check with specific offices to confirm.
Event interval: Single day event. Year: 2026. Quarter: Winter. Event Types: Academics.
Thursday, December 25, 2025.
For more info visit www.washington.edu. New Year's Day
Holidays
No classes. Most University offices and buildings are closed. Check with specific offices to confirm.
Event interval: Single day event. Year: 2026. Quarter: Winter. Event Types: Academics.
Thursday, January 1, 2026.
For more info visit www.washington.edu. MS in Technology Innovation Info Session
Attend a virtual information session to learn more about the full-time Master of Science in Technology Innovation. Join us to learn about the program, projects, and curriculum, as well as how to apply, application requirements, and best practices.
Event interval: Single day event. Online Meeting Link: https://engrwashington.event451.sites.451.io/event/1064635. Accessibility Contact: msti@uw.edu. Event Types: Information Sessions. Target Audience: Prospective Graduate Students.
Wednesday, January 7, 2026, 12:00 PM – 12:45 PM.
For more info visit www.gix.uw.edu. Distinguished Lecture Series: David Baker - Forthcoming
Abstract is forthcoming.
Bio
David Baker is a Nobel laureate, professor of biochemistry, HHMI investigator, and director of the Institute for Protein Design at the University of Washington. His lab develops software for protein design and uses it to create molecules that address challenges in medicine, technology, and sustainability. Recent work includes the development of machine learning methods for generating functional proteins.
David is also an adjunct professor of genome sciences, bioengineering, chemical engineering, computer science, and physics at the University of Washington. He has published more than 650 scientific papers, been awarded over 100 patents, and co-founded 21 biotechnology companies. More than 100 of his trainees have gone on to independent faculty positions.
He is the recipient of numerous awards, including the 2024 Nobel Prize in Chemistry "for computational protein design." He is an elected member of the National Academy of Sciences and was included on TIME's list of…
Event interval: Single day event. Campus room: Gates Center (CSE2), G20 | Amazon Auditorium. Accessibility Contact: dso@uw.edu. Event Types: Lectures/Seminars.
Thursday, January 15, 2026, 3:30 PM – 4:30 PM.
Gates Center (CSE2), G20 | Amazon Auditorium.
For more info visit www.cs.washington.edu. Martin Luther King Jr. Day
Holidays
No classes. Most University offices and buildings are closed. Check with specific offices to confirm.
Event interval: Single day event. Year: 2026. Quarter: Winter. Event Types: Academics.
Monday, January 19, 2026.
For more info visit www.washington.edu. Digital Accessibility Liaisons' Meeting
Join us as we welcome new and existing Digital Accessibility Liaisons members to our first Community of Practice meeting of the 2025-2026 academic year! This meeting will introduce the purpose of the Digital Accessibility Liaisons, provide an orientation to key resources, and share updates on the University of Washington’s Digital Accessibility efforts across our three campuses and UW Medicine.
Agenda TBD
To become a Digital Accessibility Liaison, please visit the Digital Accessibility Liaisons webpage.
Event interval: Single day event. Online Meeting Link: https://washington.zoom.us/j/96052250328. Accessibility Contact: ats-events@uw.edu. Event Types: Meetings. Target Audience: Digital Accessibility Liaisons.
Wednesday, January 21, 2026, 10:00 AM – 11:30 AM.
Distinguished Lecture Series: Meredith Ringel Morris - HCI for AGI
The past few years have seen rapid advances in frontier AI models, demonstrating increasing performance and generality. As progress continues toward artificial general intelligence (AGI), Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) scholarship and practice has a critical role to play in ensuring that AI technology is useful to and usable by people to accomplish tasks they value. HCI insights can help us maximize the benefit of AI technologies to individuals, communities, and society while allowing us to understand how to mitigate harms. In this talk, I will describe a research vision for the field of HCI in the AGI era, examining how researchers can facilitate progress toward and adoption of advanced AI via interaction techniques, interface designs, physical form factors, design methods, evaluation methods, benchmarking approaches, and data collection techniques.
Bio
Meredith Ringel Morris is Director for Human-AI Interaction Research at Google DeepMind. Prior to joining DeepMind, she was Director of the People +…
Event interval: Single day event. Campus room: Gates Center (CSE2), G20 | Amazon Auditorium. Accessibility Contact: dso@uw.edu. Event Types: Lectures/Seminars.
Thursday, January 29, 2026, 3:30 PM – 4:30 PM.
Gates Center (CSE2), G20 | Amazon Auditorium.
For more info visit www.cs.washington.edu. Presidents' Day
Holidays
No classes. Most University offices and buildings are closed. Check with specific offices to confirm.
Event interval: Single day event. Year: 2026. Quarter: Winter. Event Types: Academics.
Monday, February 16, 2026.
For more info visit www.washington.edu.