Profiles

International student Maria Bogomolova came to the UW to play volleyball. Along the way she discovered a love of Classics. 

As a child of Deaf adults, Christine Lew feels blessed to part of — and advocate for — the Deaf community and others.

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).

At age 19, UW undergrad Zoe Hana Mikuta had already secured a two-book deal with Macmillan Publishers.

UW senior Ishira Parikh helped create an award-winning curriculum using what she'd learned through UW courses and volunteer activities. 

UW senior Hunter Brown has  275,000 TikTok followers. A UW Communication course helped him build his online community. 

UW senior Owen Oliver grew up on the UW campus. Now he wants others in his community to feel at home at the University.

Sutapa Basu, Director of the Alene Moris Women's Center, reflects on the life and legacy of board member, donor, and Making Connections program founder, Dr. Patricia Dawson.

As chief historian for the National Park Service, Turkiya Lowe (PhD, History, 2010) helps bring history to life.

Award-winning screenwriter, playwright and novelist La'Chris Jordan, (BA, Communications, 2001), tells a timely and personal story in her debut short film.

Concerned about the lack of health coverage for undocumented individuals, UW senior Marium Raza is taking action.

Louis Maliyam, ’21, came to the U.S. for computer science — and along the way discovered dance.

Rainn Wilson, a UW School of Drama alumnus, discusses his life and career. 

As a kid growing up in Kennewick, Danielle Reed (BA, Psychology, 1984), was drawn to eating kale, dandelion and other sharp-flavored greens—but their bitter taste repelled most of her friends. That made her wonder why. When she was a student at the UW in the 1980s, she learned about the study of physiological psychology, or the biological explanations for how our minds work. Next came the opportunity to conduct research that examined animals’ food intake and what drove their approach to food.

She's spent little time in Latin America and her Spanish, by her own account, is just “mas o menos.” She’d never coaxed a deal out of proud, broke governments. Yet in a single week, Jennifer O’Neil (BS, Mathematical Biology, '02), helped seal the debt restructuring of Argentina and Ecuador, propelling her into prominence at BlackRock Inc. and in the clubby, male-dominated world of sovereign bond negotiations.