diff --git a/makeabilitylab/settings.py b/makeabilitylab/settings.py
index 6d39d74b..4594263d 100644
--- a/makeabilitylab/settings.py
+++ b/makeabilitylab/settings.py
@@ -86,8 +86,8 @@
     SECURE_PROXY_SSL_HEADER = ('HTTP_X_FORWARDED_PROTO', 'https')
 
 # Makeability Lab Global Variables, including Makeability Lab version
-ML_WEBSITE_VERSION = "2.16.0" # Keep this updated with each release and also change the short description below
-ML_WEBSITE_VERSION_DESCRIPTION = "Keyword taxonomy cleanup tooling (#1352): a 'Merge selected keywords' admin action on the Keyword changelist that reassigns every reference (across Publications, Talks, Posters, Grants, Projects, and Project Umbrellas) onto a chosen target and deletes the duplicates, plus a read-only 'Duplicate keywords' Data Health check that finds case/whitespace variants and deep-links to the filtered changelist to merge them. Keyword.save() now normalizes whitespace so casual variants can't be created. Also: the merge reassigns at the M2M through-table level to stay compatible with the legacy sort_value column on website_publication_keywords. Admin hygiene (#1346): the Photo changelist no longer crashes on a missing image file and now shows the owning project. SEO on-page fixes (duplicate <title>, /None sponsor links, YouTube embed)."
+ML_WEBSITE_VERSION = "2.16.1" # Keep this updated with each release and also change the short description below
+ML_WEBSITE_VERSION_DESCRIPTION = "SEO: shorten the home page <title> to 'HCI & AI Research at UW | Makeability Lab' so it stays under Google's ~60-character display limit (the 2.16.0 'University of Washington' variant was truncated). Follow-up to the 2.16.0 on-page SEO fixes."
 DATE_MAKEABILITYLAB_FORMED = datetime.date(2012, 1, 1)  # Date Makeability Lab was formed
 MAX_BANNERS = 7 # Maximum number of banners on a page
 
diff --git a/website/templates/website/index.html b/website/templates/website/index.html
index 0befb6c4..954f669e 100644
--- a/website/templates/website/index.html
+++ b/website/templates/website/index.html
@@ -51,7 +51,7 @@
 {% endcomment %}
 
 {# base.html appends " | Makeability Lab", so this block holds only the descriptive prefix (repeating the lab name here caused a duplicated title). #}
-{% block pagetitle %}HCI &amp; AI Research at the University of Washington{% endblock %}
+{% block pagetitle %}HCI &amp; AI Research at UW{% endblock %}
 
 {% load static %}
 {% load thumbnail %}
diff --git a/website/tests/test_page_metadata.py b/website/tests/test_page_metadata.py
index 942b9ea2..b60bfa8e 100644
--- a/website/tests/test_page_metadata.py
+++ b/website/tests/test_page_metadata.py
@@ -76,9 +76,7 @@ def test_home_title_is_not_duplicated(self):
         resp = self.client.get(reverse("website:index"), secure=True)
         self.assertNotContains(resp, "<title>Makeability Lab | Makeability Lab</title>")
         self.assertContains(
-            resp,
-            "<title>HCI &amp; AI Research at the University of Washington "
-            "| Makeability Lab</title>",
+            resp, "<title>HCI &amp; AI Research at UW | Makeability Lab</title>"
         )
 
     def test_no_http_scheme_in_social_urls(self):