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...
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...
Three Graduate Students Receive Fulbright Fellowships for 2025-26
This year’s Fulbright Fellowship awardees’ projects span critical topics—from international nursing migration and chronic disease...
William Bamber Awarded Mellon/ACLS Dissertation Fellowship
William Bamber, a PhD candidate in the Interdisciplinary PhD program in Near & Middle East...
Natalie Gasca — A Biostatistician Travels the World
Natalie Gasca, a PhD student in Biostatistics, discusses the transformative experience of the Bonderman Fellowship...
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...
Announcing the 2021–22 Graduate School Presidential Dissertation Fellows
Giselle Antoine Business Dissertation: “Organizational Cultures of Guilt and Shame” English Dissertation: “Decolonizing Collaboration in...
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...
Maria Blancas Wins $100,000 Bullitt Environmental Fellowship
Maria Blancas, a PhD student in the School of Environmental and Forest Sciences, was awarded...
NSF GRFP fellow Ashley Paynter on science and advocacy
“Am I going to be a ‘good’ scientist, and present myself in a palatable way,...
Boren Fellows on the application process
The Boren Fellowship is a unique opportunity for U.S. graduate students to study less commonly taught...
2019 Tillman Scholar David Coomes, Ph.D., Epidemiology
David Coomes, a Ph.D. student in the UW Epidemiology department, was awarded the 2019 Tillman...
2019 Graduate School Medal Winner
Brandon Tuan Nguyen, a doctoral student in the Department of Rehabilitation Medicine, has been selected...
Channing Nesbitt Looks Forward to Bonderman Adventure
… “it will be a reformative time of life. I plan to come back very...
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...
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...
Eight Graduate Students Receive Fulbright Fellowships for 2024-25
Colombia, Jordan and Germany are a few of the countries where University of Washington (UW)...
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...
‘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...
Erica Sanchez, Ph.D.
Molecular & Cellular Biology, 2016 First year of graduate school was a tough transition year...
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...
Diversity Efforts Awarded
Macarena Aloi, a doctoral student in pathology, has been selected for the prestigious Gilliam Fellowship...
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...
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...
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...
UW nominates 5 graduate students for Schmidt Science Fellowship
Five UW graduate students have been nominated for the highly competitive Schmidt Science Fellows program....
Two graduate students named Fulbright Fellows 2019–20
The Fulbright scholarship program is the largest U.S. international exchange opportunity for students to pursue...