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.

ArtSci Roundup: November

ArtSci Roundup: January

Trump in the World 2.0 Winter Lecture Series, Ancient Mediterranean Incarceration by UW professor Mark Letteney and Matthew D.C. Larsen, a Grad Lab Concert, and 25+ in-person and online events, podcasts, exhibitions, and more.

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Opinion: Epstein files lessons echo in WA: Stop protecting sex buyers

"Survivor accounts of the lasting effects of their prostitution at the hands of Jeffrey Epstein and his wealthy friends repeat the story of every trafficked girl and woman on Aurora Avenue in Seattle," writes Debra Boyer, affiliate faculty in the Department of Gender, Women and Sexuality Studies at the UW.
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Opinion: A novel idea: Cartoonist David Horsey tries his hand at fiction

Can a cartoonist be a novelist? Charles Johnson, professor emeritus of English at the UW, thinks so.