Honors and Awards

The UW honors several faculty members with Distinguished Teaching Awards, including Ian Schnee, Senior Lecturer of Philosophy and Xiasong Li, Professor of Chemistry.

The scholarship program is the largest U.S. international exchange opportunity for students to pursue graduate study, advanced research and teaching worldwide.

A wide variety of College of Arts and Sciences students and faculty have been honored with the 2020 Awards of Excellence.

Contest winners for the UW Libraries Student Video Contest are announced. Students Long Tran, Joshua Winiarski, Robie Rivera, Maryana Wu, Rachel Kisela, and Luke Bandagosa are winners.

The UW Honors faculty and staff for their career achievements, including personal essays, the Rare Care plant program, Jackson School Task Force, and more.

Various faculty and staff members are honored for their contributions to a variety of subjects, including social equity, Asian studies, and Swedish physical geography.

100 undergraduate and graduate students, including members of the College of Arts and Sciences are celebrated for their achievements at the University of Washington.

UW recognizes Award of Excellence recipients (many from the College of Arts and Sciences) for their outstanding dedication in teaching, mentoring, public service, staff support and more.

Andrew Meltzoff, psychology professor, has been honored by the Association for Psychological Science for his work in early childhood psychology.

Tatiana Toro, professor of mathematics, and Ana Mari Cauce, UW president and professor of psychology and gender studies, have been named to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Junior and political science major, Virginia Burton, has won the prestigious Truman scholarship.

Two CAS students — Keyan Gootkin (astronomy and physics) and Karen Zhang (microbiology and biochemistry) — are among 396 students who have been named Goldwater Scholars for 2020.

Senior Keyan Gootkin, who is majoring in astronomy and physics, has been awarded the prestigious 2020 Goldwater scholarship.

Guntis Šmidchens, professor of Scandinavian studies, has received a decoration from Lithuania for the "active promotion of Lithuanian language, history, and culture."

UW biology faculty P. Dee Boersma and Sue E. Moore are being recognized for their contributions to the study of ecosystem sentinels.