Megan Wing is the Fulbright recipient for 2022–2023
This year, one UW graduate student received a grant through the U.S. Fulbright Student Program...
2024 Gatzert Fellow Explores Healthcare Transitions for Youth
The Gatzert Child Welfare Fellowship is a one-quarter fellowship awarded to UW Ph.D. candidates writing...
NSF GRFP fellow Jessica Hernandez helps restore Seattle’s Indigenous landscape
Jessica Hernandez, an NSF GRFP fellow and PhD student in the UW School of Environmental...
Two UW graduate students granted the Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad award
The Graduate School is pleased to announce that two graduate students have been named awardees of the Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad (DDRA) Award to conduct research in 2020-2021.
Erica Sanchez, Ph.D.
Molecular & Cellular Biology, 2016 First year of graduate school was a tough transition year...
Isy Okafor on building language skills through fellowships
Have you ever had a goal or dream so ambitious it felt impossible to reach?...
Channing Nesbitt Looks Forward to Bonderman Adventure
… “it will be a reformative time of life. I plan to come back very...
Q&A with 2024-25 Fulbright grantee Claire Rater
Claire Rater holds Master’s degrees in Epidemiology and Social Work and was awarded a Fulbright...
Computer Scientist Gus Smith Seeks Deeper International Connections
Gus Smith, a Ph.D. student in Computer Science, was inspired by international and first-generation American...
Announcing the 2021–22 Graduate School Presidential Dissertation Fellows
Giselle Antoine Business Dissertation: “Organizational Cultures of Guilt and Shame” English Dissertation: “Decolonizing Collaboration in...
Diversity Efforts Awarded
Macarena Aloi, a doctoral student in pathology, has been selected for the prestigious Gilliam Fellowship...
Maria Blancas Wins $100,000 Bullitt Environmental Fellowship
Maria Blancas, a PhD student in the School of Environmental and Forest Sciences, was awarded...
Eight Graduate Students Receive Fulbright Fellowships for 2024-25
Colombia, Jordan and Germany are a few of the countries where University of Washington (UW)...
Four UW graduate students receive Fulbright awards for 2021–22
Four UW graduate students received Fulbright Fellowships for the 2021-2022 year, with awards to teach and conduct...
Near and Middle Eastern Studies Ph.D. student awarded Mellon/ACLS Dissertation Completion Fellowship
The fellowship will support Will Bamber for a full year of writing as he completes...
UW nominates 5 graduate students for Schmidt Science Fellowship
Five UW graduate students have been nominated for the highly competitive Schmidt Science Fellows program....
NSF GRFP Fellow Yasmine Farhat works to protect Cambodia’s food security
Yasmine Farhat, an NSF GRFP fellow in the Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering, is...
‘Understand what values are important to the [funding] organization,’ advises Tillman Scholar Mike McCarthy
Mike McCarthy, a doctoral student in Education and U.S. Army veteran, applied to the Pat...
Ph.D. student in Near and Middle Eastern Studies has won a Libraries Student Employee Scholarship
Melinda Cohoon, a Ph.D. student in Near and Middle Eastern Studies, has won a Libraries Student...
Urban Design and Planning interdisciplinary Ph.D. student named to the 2021 Husky 100
Congratulations to Lan T. Nguyen, a doctoral student in the Graduate School’s interdisciplinary Urban Design...
Tillman Scholar Stephanie Mitchell Leads with Humility, Offers Advice on the Application
Stephanie Mitchell, a PhD student in Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences, was awarded the 2025...
2019 Graduate School Medal Winner
Brandon Tuan Nguyen, a doctoral student in the Department of Rehabilitation Medicine, has been selected...
Six graduate students receive Fulbright fellowships for 2023
Japan, the Philippines and Israel are a few of the countries where University of Washington...
NSF GRFP fellow Ashley Paynter on science and advocacy
“Am I going to be a ‘good’ scientist, and present myself in a palatable way,...
Two graduate students named Fulbright Fellows 2019–20
The Fulbright scholarship program is the largest U.S. international exchange opportunity for students to pursue...
UW Ford Fellows on Science, Community and Applying for Fellowships
The secret to helping secure a fellowship is being able to tell your story through the...
Boren Fellows on the application process
The Boren Fellowship is a unique opportunity for U.S. graduate students to study less commonly taught...
Eight graduate students receive Fulbright fellowships for 2020–21 year
China, Germany, Nigeria, and Sweden are just some of the countries where UW graduate students...
2021 Gatzert Fellows Contribute to the Lives of Children with Disabilities
How can we make ankle-foot orthoses that do more to improve mobility? How are parents...
Eight UW postdoctoral researchers receive awards from the Washington Research Foundation
The Fellows will conduct original research, primarily in the life sciences, at Washington state research...