Honors and Awards

The College has selected five top graduating seniors as Dean's Medalists for 2008. 

"[The students] make me laugh every day. And they will try anything," says Monte Cristo Elementary School teacher Andrea Peterson ('96), recently named Washington Teacher of the Year. 

Tim Egan ('81) has received the National Book Award for nonfiction for a book about the Great American dust bowl. 

Geography major Loyce Mbewa founded the Rabour Village Project to support ongoing sustainable community health projects in her Kenyan village. 

Eliana Hechter, who enrolled at the UW at age 14, is now graduating--with a Rhodes Scholarship. 

A UW team participating in the National Ethics Bowl, a competition of ethical analysis, finished in first place. 

Four graduating seniors--one from each of the College's four divisions--have been named A&S Dean's Medalists for their outstanding accomplishments. 

Although Jim Clowes' life was cut short, his work and his spirit will live on through two new funds created in his honor. 

Jennifer Devine, 2004 Marshall Scholar, explores issues of poverty in her coursework, as a research assistant, and through her travels. 

UW senior Allyssa Lamb has been fascinated with the ancient world since age eight. Now she's heading to Oxford to study Egyptology as a 2004 Rhodes Scholar. 

The College's four Dean's Medalists--the top student in each of the Arts and Sciences' four divisions--have madt of theire the mos UW education, exploring research opportunities and other offerings. The President's Medalist is an A&S student as well. 

An interview with Rhodes Scholar Elizabeth Angell (BA, History, International Studies, 2001).