Celebrating our 2009-2010 Accomplishments

2009 – 2010It was a very good year

Our faculty are truly leaders in their fields

Heinz AwardBiologist Dee Boersma received a prestigious

award for her environmental work.

MacArthur “Genius” AwardPoet Heather McHugh

Michael Gelb and the Enzyme Team

2010 Hopkins Award

Chemist Michael Gelb was inducted into the American Association for the Advancement

of Science

National Academy of Sciences Inductees

Lynn RiddifordProfessor of Biology

Patricia Kuhl Co-Director of I-LABS

Grand Opening of I-LABS MEG Machine

International COSMOS Prize Winner

Estella LeopoldProfessor of Biology

2010 Distinguished Teaching Awards

Scott FreemanLecturerBiology

Anu TaranathSenior LecturerEnglish/ComparativeHistory of Ideas

Cuong VuAss’t. ProfessorMusic

2010 Marsha L. LandoltDistinguished Graduate Mentor Award

Victoria LawsonProfessor of Geography

2010 Excellence in Teaching Award

Monique LacosteCommunication

Beth Wheat, Ph.C.PreDoc Teaching AssociateBiology

2010-11 Fulbright Research Award

Firoozeh Papan-MatinAssistant ProfessorNear Eastern Languagesand Civilization

The K. Patricia CrossFuture Leaders Award

Jentery SayersDoctoral student

English literature and language

We provide our students

with a broad-based education that allows

them to excel

Putnam Fellowship

Will Johnson, SeniorMathematics

Computer Science

2010 Arts & Sciences Dean's Medalists

Nate Bottman

Mathematics Slavic Languages and

Literatures

Dean’s Medalist – Natural Sciences

Dean’s Medalist – Art

Shan (Susie) LuArt

Industrial Engineering

William (Cory) Potts

Dean’s Medalist – Humanities

EnglishFrench

Aditya Ganapathiraju

PsychologyPhilosophy

minor in Human Rights and in Values in Society

Dean’s Medalist – Social Sciences

A&S Students win the 2010 Foster School Business Plan Competition

Kyung Hee Yun, '09, Political Science &Jon Hickey, '84, Communication

were part of a team awarded the Grand Prize

2010 Graduate School Distinguished Dissertation Award

Emily Walton, for her dissertation, “Exploring the

Effects of Residential Segregation on Health

Outcomes Among Racial and Ethnic Minority

Groups”

Not only do our students excel in the classroom, but they are

leadersin athletics

Danielle LawrieSociology

2009 USA Softball Collegiate Player of the Year

ESPY Nominee

Women's College World Series - Most Outstanding Player

Nick TaylorEconomics

2010 Ben Hogan Award WinnerGiven annually to the top collegiate golfer 

Guy Flaherty AwardThe Washington football program's oldest and most prestigious teamaward

Jake LockerHistory

Quincy PondexterSociology

Marv Harshman Award as the team's top rebounder

950 KJR Most Valuable Player

101 Club Scholar Athlete Award

Sami Whitcomb History

All-Pac-10 selection

All-Academic Honorable Mention

We provide our students with

opportunities that promote the critical and creative thinking

required to excel in a global society

UW’s Archaeological Excavationsand Field School at Tel Dor, Israel

Gemstone found at Tel Dor in Israel identified as a carnelian stone, likely once part of a signet ring dating back to about 230 BCE.

UW Drama at theEdinburgh Festival Fringe

The UW Drama Collective Pontlevoy presents a Basement Co. Event

Dean Ana Mari Cauce met the King and Queen of Spain at the opening of our León Center

The Crown Princess of Sweden visited campus to meet with Scandinavian Studies students

United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki Moon visited campus as part of the Jackson School’s centennial celebration

Our scholarship lays the foundation for

innovation and leadership as shown by

our alumni

Alumnus Mike Posner is considered a leading pioneer in brain mapping and cognitive neuroscience.

National Medal of Science

PEN/Faulkner Award

Artist-in-Residence Sherman Alexie

Thank you for helping us make2009-2010 such a terrific year!