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Bellevue physics teacher wins $25,000 national award
Ryan Lafferty, a physics teacher at Bellevue’s International School and UW alumnus, scores $25,000 Milken Educator Award. -
UW astronomer Eric Agol honored by Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
Eric Agol, professor of astronomy, will receive the 2016 Lecar Prize from the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics. -
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. -
Awards, Honors, and Professorships
Recent awards and honors to faculty in the College of Arts & Sciences.
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A Vision for the Burke
Recently honored by the Western Museum Association, Burke Museum Executive Director Julie Stein discusses her years at the museum.
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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. -
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. -
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.
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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.
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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. -
Marek Basler and Clemens Cabernard are new “EMBO Young Investigators”
Cabernard will join the UW Department of Biology next year as an assistant professor. -
UW Alumnus Nilanjan Chatterjee named Bloomberg Distinguished Professor
Chatterjee, a renowned biostatistician is the 16th Bloomberg Distinguished Professor at Johns Hopkins University. -
Swartz Foundation grant to boost UW research in computational neuroscience
The UW will join universities like Harvard, Columbia and Yale as Swartz-funded centers for research in this growing field of brain science. -
Seattle Times editorial board praises real-world impact of UW research
"Serious research has serious consequences," says the Seattle Times editorial board in response to recent news of a break-in at the UW Center for Human Rights. -
Major award will help young UW scientist capture the power of light
Brandi Cossairt, UW professor of chemistry, will receive five-year funding through Packard Fellowship for Science and Engineering.