Giving

The Pacific Northwest is at the epicenter of a push to improve global health. Margaret O’Mara, associate professor of history at the UW, is quoted. 

Pioneer, adventurist, and 'Renaissance man' Doug Walker remembered

Why do people give to the College of Arts and Sciences? Three donors share their stories.

A benefit concert for the Astrobiology Program and Astronomy Department combines original symphonic music with spectacular imagery from space.

Biology graduate David Olsen fulfills a childhood dream in biology and medicine thanks to great supporters and educators along his journey.

Nora Strothman talks about a bench placed at the University of Washington in honor of her husband Bill, a graduate of economics and communication who died in a helicopter crash.

Thanks to scholarship support, Dashni Amin was able to draw inspiration from her parents’ sacrifices — and prepare herself for a future of helping others.

The University of Washington’s Jackson School of International Studies has received funding from the U.S. Department of Education.

When Jennifer Caldwell, ‘07, died tragically in South Africa in 2009, a fund was established in her name to support UW students doing human rights work. The fund, now endowed, ensures that Caldwell's passion for human rights will live on. 

Floyd Jones honored his wife’s love of theater with a generous gift that made the School of Drama Playhouse Theatre renovation possible.

In Seattle's Capitol Hill neighborhood, A&S alumna Mary Kollar ('65, '81) shares poetry with passersby through a poetry box outside her house.

Through the School of Drama's Adopt an Actor program, donors are paired with an actor entering his or her final year of the Professional Actor Training Program.

Journalism students spent the summer interning at English-language newspapers abroad--in Sierra Leone, Indonesia, and China--through an unusual scholarship in the UW Department of Communication. 

The Joff Hanauer Endowment for Excellence in Western Civilization will create a community of scholars studying Western Civilization.