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Center for American Indian and Indigenous Studies receives $1.8M grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
Programs to support current and future Native American students, along with both undergraduate and graduate research in the Indigenous humanities, will benefit from this grant.
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Breakthrough Foundation honors UW researcher studying ‘exotic’ states of matter
Lukasz Fidkowski, an assistant professor of physics at the UW, is one of the winners of a 2020 New Horizons in Physics Prize from the Breakthrough Foundation.
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Valerie Curtis-Newton Receives Highest Honor at 2019 Gregory Awards
Theatre Puget Sound (TPS) announces today that Valerie Curtis-Newton will be the recipient of the 2019 Gregory A. Falls Sustained Achievement Award.
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Hugo House documentary ‘Where the House Was’ to debut Sept. 21 at Northwest Film Forum
This film, four years in the making, was produced by Frances McCue, a senior lecturer in English, and directed by Ryan K. Adams, a filmmaker with Continuum College.
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UW colleges, offices share three-year NSF grant to make ‘internet of things’ more secure
Principle investigators include Jessica Beyer, co-director of the Jackson School’s Cybersecurity Initiative.
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Mayor's Arts Awards
Department of Dance Professor Dani Tirrell receives the 2019 Mayor's Arts Award from the Office of Arts & Culture Seattle.
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UW books in brief: Tribal sovereignty and the courts, mentoring through fan fiction, UW Press paperback editions
Recent notable books by UW faculty members explore the legal history of Indigenous nations and the mentoring benefits of fan fiction, and more.
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Students & Superlatives
Eight exceptional Arts & Sciences students have been selected as 2019 Dean's Medalists and Graduate Medalists.
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Professor Alexes Harris appointed as UW Faculty Athletics Representative
Professor Harris will help ensure that the UW's athletics programs are closely aligned with our core educational mission.
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UW professors to receive 2019 Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers
The Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers is the highest honor given by the U.S. government to early career scientists and engineers.