Honors and Awards

School of Drama Professor Valerie Curtis-Newton is featured in this round-up of UW faculty who've recently won honors and awards.

Recent books by faculty in Cinema and Media Studies, Asian Languages and Literature, and the Jackson School have received high praise and won multiple awards.

The English department has received national honors for its innovative Expository Writing Program.

Professor of political science, Lance Bennett, was awarded an honorary doctorate at the University of Bern in Switzerland.

The Seattle Times names Valerie Curtis-Newton, Head of Directing in the School of Drama, as one of 13 people who shaped the Seattle area in the past decade.

The Henry Art Gallery has won Seattle Magazine's 2019 Reader's Choice Award for Best Art Gallery.

This round up of the best Seattle theater moments of the decade included several shout-outs to Drama faculty and alums.

Donald Hellman, professor at the Jackson School of International Studies will be awarded Japan's highest honor for scholars.

Professor at the Jackson School of International Studies, Daniel Chirot, has been awarded an honorary doctorate from the University of Bucharest.

Charles Johnson, a professor in English, is featured on new American Psychological Association diversity posters.

Six faculty members, including Biology Professor Julia Parrish, have been named fellows in the American Association for the Advancement of Science.

Andrew Nestingen received Knight First Class of the Order of the Lion of Finland.

MacKenzie Andrews (BS, Neurobiology, 2018) and her team members from the UW presented their medical device startup Nanodropper at the 2019 GeekWire Summit.

College of Arts & Sciences faculty won the Best History in the 2019 Association for Recorded Sound Collections Awards of Excellence for their bilingual book.

Programs to support current and future Native American students, along with both undergraduate and graduate research in the Indigenous humanities, will benefit from this grant.