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Each spring, a handful of outstanding faculty earn a special spotlight: a Distinguished Teaching Award (DTA).

The award recognizes community-building projects like Women Who Rock and American Sabor that creates new forms of scholarship.

Debate team claims 2017 Novice National Champion title

Award sponsored by the National Science Foundation and Popular Science magazine celebrates the use of visual media to artfully and clearly communicate scientific data and research.

Recent honors for College of Arts & Sciences faculty and staff. 

Adrian Raftery receives Ireland's St. Patrick's Day Medal for contributions to statistics 

During a celebration of her work, the term "incremental heroism" was used to describe the career of Beth Sellars, now the namesake of the biennial Anne Focke Arts Leadership Award (AFALA)

NASA began the new year by announcing two new missions to explore asteroids, the oldest parts of our solar system. A recent UW study on STEM fields is referenced.

Professor Emeritus David Thouless is the Physics Department's second Nobel Prize recipient. 

This year, the Nobel Prize in Physics went to three men — all born in Britain, but working at U.S. universities.