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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...
Announcing the 2022 Gatzert Child Welfare Fellows
How can learning and identity development combat spatial oppression? How can we improve mobility for...
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...
2019 Tillman Scholar David Coomes, Ph.D., Epidemiology
David Coomes, a Ph.D. student in the UW Epidemiology department, was awarded the 2019 Tillman...
Fulbright fellow Hannah VanBenschoten checks in from Sweden
Traveling internationally during the pandemic has not been easy for many people, but despite Sweden’s...
Eight Graduate Students Receive Fulbright Fellowships for 2024-25
Colombia, Jordan and Germany are a few of the countries where University of Washington (UW)...
Two graduate students named Fulbright Fellows 2019–20
The Fulbright scholarship program is the largest U.S. international exchange opportunity for students to pursue...
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...
Diversity Efforts Awarded
Macarena Aloi, a doctoral student in pathology, has been selected for the prestigious Gilliam Fellowship...
Leoma James reflects on her Boren Fellowship experience in Tanzania
During her Master of Education program at the University of Washington, Leoma received an additional...
Six graduate students receive Fulbright fellowships for 2023
Japan, the Philippines and Israel are a few of the countries where University of Washington...
Critical Language Scholarship Awardee Kelsey Bilek Studies Swahili in Tanzania
Kelsey Bilek spent the summer studying Swahili as an awardee of the 2019 U.S. Department of...
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.
2019 Graduate School Medal Winner
Brandon Tuan Nguyen, a doctoral student in the Department of Rehabilitation Medicine, has been selected...
2023 Gatzert Child Welfare Awardees Support Disability Justice and Mobility
The Gatzert Child Welfare Fellowship is a one-quarter fellowship awarded to UW Ph.D. candidates writing...
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...
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...
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...
Introducing Boren Fellow Benjamin Kantner
David L. Boren Graduate Fellowships, an initiative of the National Security Education Program, provide funding for U.S....
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...
NSF GRFP fellow Ashley Paynter on science and advocacy
“Am I going to be a ‘good’ scientist, and present myself in a palatable way,...
Channing Nesbitt Looks Forward to Bonderman Adventure
 … “it will be a reformative time of life. I plan to come back very...
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...
Erica Sanchez, Ph.D.
Molecular & Cellular Biology, 2016 First year of graduate school was a tough transition year...
Maria Blancas Wins $100,000 Bullitt Environmental Fellowship
Maria Blancas, a PhD student in the School of Environmental and Forest Sciences, was awarded...
‘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...
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...
Isy Okafor on building language skills through fellowships
Have you ever had a goal or dream so ambitious it felt impossible to reach?...
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...