Honors and Awards

Since 1932, the President’s Medal has been awarded to the graduating senior who has achieved the most distinguished academic record at the university. Meet this year's awardee.

Four exceptional graduating seniors have been selected as Dean's Medalists by the College of Arts & Sciences.

Four graduate students are receiving the A&S Graduate Medal along with their PhDs.

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

The Association of Professional Schools of International Affairs is dedicated to the improvement of graduate education in international affairs.

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.

This year's Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded to physicists David Thouless of the UW, F. Duncan Haldane of Princeton University and J. Michael Kosterlitz of Brown University.