Honors and Awards

The University of Washington has announced this year’s Awards of Excellence recipients, several come from the College of Arts & Sciences.

Fellows conduct research , co-author journal articles and policy papers, participate in meetings with high-level officials, contribute to congressional testimony, and organize briefings.

UW political scientist Rebecca Thorpe’s book “The American Warfare State: The Domestic Politics of Military Spending,” has been honored by the Lyndon Baines Johnson Foundation.

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

Biology professor Dee Boersma is a finalist for the Indianapolis Prize, the highest honor for animal conservationists.

With a major award and internship from Disney, drama major David Borning is one step closer to his dream of designing theme parks.

The group includes three Arts & Sciences professors: Bingni Brunton, Matthew McQuinn, and Christopher Laumann.

Almost all of the UW Fulbright scholar are majors with the College of Arts & Sciences.

David Masiello is an assistant professor of chemistry and adjunct assistant professor of applied mathematics.

When Professor Quintard Taylor got an email from New Zealand, he realized he was onto something big.

Dee Boersma is the first UW faculty member nominated for the Indianapolis Prize thanks to her lifetime work studying and advocating for penguins in South America.

Dr. Wasser, a faculty member in UW Biology, is also a finalist for a $500,000 grand prize thanks to his work in DNA tracking.

Ryan Lafferty, a physics teacher at Bellevue’s International School and UW alumnus, scores $25,000 Milken Educator Award.

Eric Agol, professor of astronomy, will receive the 2016 Lecar Prize from the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics.

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.