Honors and Awards

The UWAA Distinguished Service Award has been awarded to alum and previous UWAA Board of Trustees Member Colleen Fukui-Sketchley.

Distinguished Teaching Award winners Andrea Carrol, associate teaching professor of chemistry, discusses how her life has changed during the COVI-19 pandemic.

Larry Gossett, monumental Seattle civil rights activist and the first UW student to graduate with a degree in African American Studies, has recieved the Alumnus Summa Laude Dignatus, the highest honor bestowed upon a UW graduate.

Hamza Zafer, UW associate professor of Near Eastern Languages and Civilization, has been awarded a fellowship from the Herbert D. Katz Center.

Jamie Walker, the current director of the School of Art + Art History + Design, discusses the Anne Focke Award recipient Ron Chew.

The Life Sciences Building, which houses the Department of Biology, has earned the COTE® Top Ten Award for sustainable design excellence.

Patricia Shehan Campbell, professor and chair of music education in the UW School of Music, has received a 2021 Golden Apple Award for her work on musical education.

Randall LeVeque, professor emeritus of applied mathematics, and Julie Theriot, professor of biology, have been elected to the National Academy of Sciences.

Rachel Klevit, professor of biochemistry, Randall LeVeque, professor emeritus of applied mathematics, and Julie Theriot, professor of biology, have been elected to the National Academy of Sciences.

The UW has been ranked as the number 4 highed education institution in the United States in terms of total economic impact created as a result of federal research expenditures.

Grace Funsten (Classics PhD candidate) and Adriana Vazquez (who received her PhD in classics in 2017) have won the 2021-22 Rome Prize, a year-long residential fellowship at the American Academy in Rome.

Four University of Washington faculty members are among the leaders in academia, business, philanthropy, the humanities and the arts elected as 2021 fellows of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences, one of the nation’s oldest and most prestigious honorary societies.

En el 2019, Toro ganó el premio Marsha L. Landolt, de la Universidad de Washington, donde trabaja desde 1994. El reconocimiento, que obtuvo por su capacidad pedagógica e interés en enseñar un área a la que muchos le temen, también la ubicó como una de las científicas colombianas más reconocidas y brillantes. (English translation: In 2019, Toro won the Marsha L. Landolt Award from the University of Washington, where she has worked since 1994. The recognition, which she obtained for her pedagogical ability and interest in teaching an area that many fear, also ranked her as one of the most recognized and brilliant Colombian scientists).

Sophia Carey, a junior majoring in English and comparative history of ideas and minoring in theatre studies, was awarded the Beinecke Scholarship.

James Tweedie, professor of cinema and media studies, has been awarded a 2021 Guggenheim Fellowship.