Campus Landmarks
This library is the architectural centerpiece of campus and home to the Reading Room everyone posts on their story.
Suzzallo Library
UW was founded in this year, making it the oldest public university on the West Coast.
1861
This is the name of UW's current live mascot.
Dubs
What is your FIG Leader’s major?
Business Administration
UW's official colors are these two.
Purple and gold
Known as "the fountain and the mountain," this fountain sits at the center of Rainier Vista.
Drumheller Fountain
This is the oldest building on the current campus, built in 1895 when UW moved up from downtown Seattle.
Denny Hall
These trees bloom in the Quad every spring and draw crowds from across the country.
The Yoshino cherry trees
What specialty of physician does your FIG leader hope to work in one day?
Pediatrics!
This martial artist and actor attended UW in the early 1960s and is buried in Seattle's Lake View Cemetery.
Bruce Lee
This natural history museum on the north end of campus is the official state museum of Washington.
The Burke Museum
Before Washington was a state, UW went by this original name.
The Territorial University of Washington
This stadium crowd phenomenon was popularized at Husky Stadium in 1981 and is now seen worldwide.
The Wave
Which of these states has your FIG Leader NOT lived in?
A. Idaho
B. Florida
C. Washington
D. Montana
Montana!
This past UW football player currently plays for the Atlanta Falcons.
Michael Penix Jr.
Red Square looks like a regular brick plaza, but it's actually the roof of this.
An underground parking garage
Four columns from the original 1861 downtown building now stand in the Grove. They're nicknamed LIFE, which stands for these four words.
Loyalty, Industry, Faith, Efficiency
Tradition says students should visit the Four Columns at these two moments in their UW career.
At the start of their education and after graduation
What is the name of your FIG Leader’s dog? (My little baby angel)
Cinnamon
Suzzallo Library is named after this UW president, who called the library "the soul of the university."
Henry Suzzallo
This hidden grassy amphitheater holds four columns from UW's original 1861 building downtown.
Sylvan Grove
This 1909 world's fair was held on the UW campus and permanently shaped its layout, including Rainier Vista and Drumheller Fountain.
The Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition
This UW rowing shell, now hanging in the Conibear Shellhouse, carried the team that won gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics.
The Husky Clipper
What subspecialty of medicine does your FIG leader hope to go into? (Pediatric __________)
dermatology
For decades, UW's campus housed one of these in a glass-walled building near the engineering quad, visible from the street.
A working nuclear reactor (More Hall Annex)