Erica Sanchez, Ph.D.
Molecular & Cellular Biology, 2016 First year of graduate school was a tough transition year...
Diversity Efforts Awarded
Macarena Aloi, a doctoral student in pathology, has been selected for the prestigious Gilliam Fellowship...
2026-27 UWRA Patricia Dougherty Fellows in Aging Selected
Two graduate students received the 2026-2027 UWRA Patricia Doughterty Fellowships in Aging. Congratulations to Dr. Augusto Ferraris and Xinmei Huang for...
Fulbright fellow Hannah VanBenschoten checks in from Sweden
Traveling internationally during the pandemic has not been easy for many people, but despite Sweden’s...
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...
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...
Announcing the 2021–22 Graduate School Presidential Dissertation Fellows
Giselle Antoine Business Dissertation: “Organizational Cultures of Guilt and Shame” English Dissertation: “Decolonizing Collaboration in...
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...
UW Ph.D. student wins $100,000 Schmidt Science Fellowship
Hal Holmes, a doctoral candidate in Bioengineering, has been selected as an inaugural Schmidt Science Fellow, an...
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...
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...
2019 Graduate School Medal Winner
Brandon Tuan Nguyen, a doctoral student in the Department of Rehabilitation Medicine, has been selected...
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)...
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...
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...
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...
Channing Nesbitt Looks Forward to Bonderman Adventure
… “it will be a reformative time of life. I plan to come back very...
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.
‘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...
Boren Fellows on the application process
The Boren Fellowship is a unique opportunity for U.S. graduate students to study less commonly taught...
Introducing Boren Fellow Benjamin Kantner
David L. Boren Graduate Fellowships, an initiative of the National Security Education Program, provide funding for U.S....
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...
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...
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,...
Announcing 2026 Gatzert Child Welfare Fellows
In what ways do Black disabled preschool-aged children assert agency in relation to and beyond...
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...
UW nominates 5 graduate students for Schmidt Science Fellowship
Five UW graduate students have been nominated for the highly competitive Schmidt Science Fellows program....