Giving to the College of Arts & Sciences

The College 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.

Broad, flexible funding enables us remain nimble and excellent in the face of an ever-changing world. Also called “discretionary funds,” these gift funds have broad parameters for distribution and may be used to meet a variety of challenges that arise for the College over time. One such fund, The Arts and Sciences College Fund for Excellence, supports the College from every angle: from  shifting student needs, to seeding new programs, to aiding vital research efforts. Gifts to this fund are free of restriction and enable the College to support emerging needs as they arise.

Explore how flexible funding helps Arts & Sciences look to the future AND continue to make history.

Funding Impact Areas

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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.  

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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. 

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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.

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Gift Stories

Since the founding of the University of Washington more than 150 years ago, The College of Arts and Sciences has 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.  Read on to learn more about how their work is fueled by philanthropy.

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10 Arts & Sciences Stories from 2025

As 2025 comes to a close, we're sharing some of the year's top Arts & Sciences stories.

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A Healing Heart Returns

In February, the UW Symphony will perform a symphony that Coast Salish elder Vi Hilbert commissioned years ago to heal the world after the heartbreak of 9/11. The symphony was first performed by the Seattle Symphony in 2006.

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A recap of Webb telescope discoveries

Emily Levesque, an associate professor of astronomy at the UW who specializes in massive stars and supernovas, joined host Leah Pezzetti on The Sky Above to discuss the biggest and best discoveries to come from the James Webb Space Telescope this past year.