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Cassie Strickland wins 2015 Senior CLASS Award
Anthropology major Cassie Strickland has won one of the most prestigious awards in college sports, the 2015 Senior CLASS Award in NCAA Division I women’s volleyball.12/17/2015 | UW Athletics -
A Vision for the Burke
Recently honored by the Western Museum Association, Burke Museum Executive Director Julie Stein discusses her years at the museum.
December 2015 Perspectives -
Awards, Honors, and Professorships
Recent awards and honors to faculty in the College of Arts & Sciences.
December 2015 Perspectives -
NY Times ranks professor's book among notable 100
The book, The Shape of the New: Four Big Ideas and How They Made the Modern World, explores how capitalism, socialism, evolution and liberal democracy broke decisively with the past.12/02/2015 | Jackson School -
Twenty-one-year-old political science student elected to city council position
Voters overwhelmingly chose Russell Wiita, 21, as Sultan’s newest councilman. He is a senior majoring in political science.11/30/2015 | HeraldNet -
Professor Pat Bajari elected Econometric Society fellow
One of only 13 Fellows elected this year to lifetime appointments, Professor Bajari joins an elite group of economic researchers from around the world.
11/25/2015 | Department of Economics -
Douglass North, Nobel Prize-winning economic historian, dies at 95
Dr. North was on the faculty of the University of Washington in Seattle for 33 years.
11/24/2015 | The Washington Post -
After Nobel win, neutrino endeavors snag Breakthrough Prize in Physics
The $3 million prize will be shared among the over 1,300 scientists, including University of Washington researchers.11/19/2015 -
Marek Basler and Clemens Cabernard are new “EMBO Young Investigators”
Cabernard will join the UW Department of Biology next year as an assistant professor.11/12/2015 -
UW Alumnus Nilanjan Chatterjee named Bloomberg Distinguished Professor
Chatterjee, a renowned biostatistician is the 16th Bloomberg Distinguished Professor at Johns Hopkins University.11/10/2015