Giving to the College of Arts & Sciences

We’re a community driven by discovery. We celebrate curiosity and creativity in the classroom and beyond. Your gift encourages connections across arts, humanities, natural sciences and social sciences, helping our students, faculty and researchers better understand our complex world.

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The Power of AND

Positioned at the nexus of the arts, humanities, social sciences, and natural sciences, the University of Washington College of Arts & Sciences is the college of and.

Since the founding of the University of Washington more than 150 years ago, we’ve trained the scientists and the artists, the performers and the reformers, the musicians and the statisticians, the writers and the researchers, the thinkers and the doers—the who and the what our region and world need to thrive. From ground-breaking research leading to patents and vaccines to award-winning artists, our faculty, students, and graduates are changing the world in which we live. 

Funding Impact Areas

Student Success

Programs like gesture and College Edge provide our students with opportunities to gain holistic, real-world experiences, engage in meaningful work beyond the classroom, and be well prepared to connect classroom learning to future careers.

Faculty Support

As some of the brightest minds in their fields, our faculty are instrumental in advancing research, teaching promising students, and making our institution a top destination for distinguished academics.

Research Acceleration

Bold discoveries ignite when arts and sciences converge. By blurring traditional boundaries, we open space across academic disciplines for new research, deeper dialogue, expansive expression, and collective innovation. 

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Chemical Sciences Building

In a new Chemical Sciences Building, we will build a nexus of creative science. An incubator beyond disciplines, where learners and experts ask questions together. Those questions will birth novel research—and that research will become the solutions that change our tomorrow.

Discretionary Funds

Giving to discretionary funds in Arts & Sciences propels innovative programs like gesture and College Edge, which prepare our students to be college- and career-ready. It supports our graduate and undergraduate researchers and the faculty who mentor them. It accelerates research initiatives, turning bold ideas into transformative change. 

Support Arts & Sciences as we look to the future and continue to make history. 

Gift Stories

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The Perks of Being a UW Student

Opportunities on campus and in the community that are free or discounted for UW students.

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Earlier this year, researchers at the University of Washington published a paper in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences on the spotted ratfish, sometimes called a ghost shark.Karly Cohen, a postdoctoral researcher at the UW's Friday Harbor Labs, is interviewed.

Elderly Asian Americans learn to protect themselves as crime, scams hit Seattle’s Chinatown-International District

UW Professor Connie So and interns in the Department of American Ethnic Studies take part in launching an educational campaign to support elderly Asian Americans in protecting themselves from crime and scams.

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