Honors and Awards

This round up of the best Seattle theater moments of the decade included several shout-outs to Drama faculty and alums.

Donald Hellman, professor at the Jackson School of International Studies will be awarded Japan's highest honor for scholars.

Professor at the Jackson School of International Studies, Daniel Chirot, has been awarded an honorary doctorate from the University of Bucharest.

Charles Johnson, a professor in English, is featured on new American Psychological Association diversity posters.

Six faculty members, including Biology Professor Julia Parrish, have been named fellows in the American Association for the Advancement of Science.

Andrew Nestingen received Knight First Class of the Order of the Lion of Finland.

MacKenzie Andrews (BS, Neurobiology, 2018) and her team members from the UW presented their medical device startup Nanodropper at the 2019 GeekWire Summit.

College of Arts & Sciences faculty won the Best History in the 2019 Association for Recorded Sound Collections Awards of Excellence for their bilingual book.

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.

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. 

Theatre Puget Sound (TPS) announces today that Valerie Curtis-Newton will be the recipient of the 2019 Gregory A. Falls Sustained Achievement Award.

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. 

Principle investigators include Jessica Beyer, co-director of the Jackson School’s Cybersecurity Initiative.

Department of Dance Professor Dani Tirrell receives the 2019 Mayor's Arts Award from the Office of Arts & Culture Seattle.

Recent notable books by UW faculty members explore the legal history of Indigenous nations and the mentoring benefits of fan fiction, and more.