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W on Red Square with Drumheller Fountain in distance
Excellence in Graduate Research Awards 2023-24
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Prizes for Best PhD Thesis 2023
An illustration of a water molecule (where the hydrogen atoms are white, the oxygen atoms are red, and the electrons are gold) and a synchronized attosecond x-ray pulse pair (shown in pink and green) from an X-ray free electron laser. Nathan Johnson/PNNL
First-ever atomic freeze-frame of liquid water
Charles Campbell
Campbell receives Somorjai Award for Creative Research in Catalysis
Three students stand side by side wearing yellow leis.
MEM-C: Moonshots & Island Voyages
Stefan Stoll portrait
Stefan Stoll awarded 2023 Bruker Prize
Anne McCoy
Anne McCoy receives Jack Simons Award for Theoretical Chemistry
Two portraits side by side: Sarah Pristash and Chetan Poudel
Poudel and Pristash receive WRF Postdoctoral Fellowships
Pink lilies
A stalled project blooms: Ripples at edges of lily petals
Lewis Johnson
Lewis Johnson named to 40 Under 40 by Puget Sound Business Journal
Portrait of Joshua Vaughan
Vaughan Awarded $1.3M Grant from W. M. Keck Foundation
Madison Monahan stands between her mentors Brandi Cossairt and Jim De Yoreo in front of a banner that reads "Doctor in the House"
Exploring New Materials Through Collaboration
Portrait of Munira Khalil
Munira Khalil receives prestigious Brown Investigator Award
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Prizes for Thesis and Research
A cartoon depiction of the light-induced ferromagnetism that the researchers observed in ultrathin sheets of tungsten diselenide and tungsten disulfide.
Lasers trigger magnetism in atomically thin quantum materials
Jenekhe and De Yoreo
Jenekhe and De Yoreo elected to National Academy of Engineering
Kovacs and Stoll
Kovacs and Stoll elected as AAAS Fellows
This fluorescence microscopy image shows yeast vacuoles that have undergone phase separation. Credit: Luther Davis/Alexey Merz/University of Washington
Hungry yeast are tiny, living thermometers
Cover image from Materials Horizon special issue in honor of Prof. Seth Marder
Theory-guided design leads to new OEO material with record performance for hybrid devices
Anne McCoy
McCoy receives Francis P. Garvan-John M. Olin Medal 
Xiaosong Li stands near a stone pillar holding a molecular model
Xiaosong Li elected as APS Fellow
David Ginger at the sample preparation laboratory for atomic force microscopy in the UW’s Molecular Engineering and Sciences Building.
NSF to fund revolutionary center for optoelectronic, quantum technologies
Stefan Stoll
Stefan Stoll recognized by the International EPR Society
Illustration of light-driven electron transfer in a molecular complex
Role of solvent molecules in light-driven electron transfer revealed