Honors and Awards

Anne McCoy
Anne McCoy receives Jack Simons Award for Theoretical Chemistry
February 15, 2023
Alexandra Velian
Alexandra Velian receives Marion Milligan Mason Award
February 14, 2023
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2022-2023 Chemistry Scholarship and Book Award Recipients
February 7, 2023
Deborah Illman seated at a desk with a joyful expression, with her hands out, palms up and elbows bent
Deborah Illman '76 elected as AAAS Fellow
February 1, 2023
Two portraits side by side: Sarah Pristash and Chetan Poudel
Poudel and Pristash receive WRF Postdoctoral Fellowships
January 13, 2023
Ricardo Rivera-Maldonado
Rivera-Maldonado wins award for bilingual climate science fact sheet
November 30, 2022
Dianne Xiao
Dianne Xiao receives Packard Fellowship
October 21, 2022
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Banerjee Ghosh awarded Homecoming Scholarship
October 20, 2022
Lewis Johnson
Lewis Johnson named to 40 Under 40 by Puget Sound Business Journal
September 16, 2022
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Fellowships, Awards & Honors: Faculty, Staff & Postdocs
September 12, 2022
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Scholarships, Awards & Honors: Undergraduate Students
September 12, 2022
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Fellowships, Awards & Honors: Graduate Students
September 12, 2022
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ACS Undergraduate Awards for the 2021-22 academic year
August 24, 2022
Portrait of Joshua Vaughan
Vaughan Awarded $1.3M Grant from W. M. Keck Foundation
July 14, 2022
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Seven UW faculty members elected to the Washington State Academy of Sciences
July 14, 2022
Diversity, Inclusion, Equity
Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Leadership Awards
July 12, 2022
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Top Scholars in Chemistry for the 2021-22 academic year
July 6, 2022
Michael Enright wearing a collared shirt, with Bagley Hall out of focus in the background
Enright '19 awarded Northwest Nanotechnology Infrastructure seed grant
July 5, 2022
Jacob Busche pictured outside in short sleeves
Busche ’21 receives Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellowship
June 28, 2022
Headshot of Amy Snover, smiling at the camera, with long hair, wearing a blazer
Amy Snover retires after career of preparing Pacific Northwest for climate change
June 17, 2022
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Returning to the Classroom after 6 Quarters of Zoom University
June 16, 2022
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Undergraduate Research Awards
June 15, 2022
Portrait of Munira Khalil
Munira Khalil receives prestigious Brown Investigator Award
June 13, 2022
Usha and Rao Varanasi at the UW Club in 2016
Usha and Rao Varanasi honored for Distinguished Service by College of Engineering Diamond Award
June 7, 2022
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Chemistry students awarded NSF Graduate Research Fellowships
June 2, 2022
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Prizes for Thesis and Research
May 20, 2022
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Five Biochemistry and Chemistry Undergraduates named to the Husky 100
May 2, 2022
Chemistry Study Center
Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award
April 29, 2022
Diana Knight holds a certificate and the Spirit of Service Award - a tear drop shaped glass sculpture.
UW CFD honors Diana Knight with Spirit of Service Award
March 24, 2022
Catherine Chia
Biochemistry major Catherine Chia named Freshman Medalist
March 10, 2022
Jenekhe and De Yoreo
Jenekhe and De Yoreo elected to National Academy of Engineering
February 11, 2022
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2021-2022 Chemistry Scholarship and Book Award Recipients
January 27, 2022
Kovacs and Stoll
Kovacs and Stoll elected as AAAS Fellows
January 26, 2022
Matthew Golder
Matt Golder receives Thieme Chemistry Journals Award
January 24, 2022
Dianne Xiao
Dianne Xiao receives NSF CAREER Award
January 11, 2022
Zack Herbst (they/them)
Zack Herbst wins Partner in Safety Award from UW EH&S
January 11, 2022
Tim Trinklein
Tim Trinklein wins 2021 Richard D. Sacks Award
January 10, 2022
Matthew Golder
Matt Golder receives NSF CAREER Award
January 4, 2022
Jose Araujo
Jose Araujo receives WRF Postdoctoral Fellowship
December 7, 2021
Caitlin Cornell in regalia
Caitlin Cornell receives CGS/ProQuest Distinguished Dissertation Award
December 3, 2021
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Yuting Zeng named ASN Kidney STARS Awardee
November 5, 2021
Anne McCoy
McCoy receives Francis P. Garvan-John M. Olin Medal 
October 14, 2021
Xiaosong Li stands near a stone pillar holding a molecular model
Xiaosong Li elected as APS Fellow
October 13, 2021
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Husky Stadium Celebrates Distinguished Teaching Awards
September 27, 2021
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
September 9, 2021
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Two new UW partnerships funded by NSF seed grants
September 3, 2021
Single crystal x-ray diffraction structure of a propeller-shaped inorganic cluster prepared by the Velian research group.
Fellowships, Awards & Honors: Faculty & Postdocs
August 20, 2021
Headshot of Tammi van Neel with long hair and pierced nose
Tammi van Neel receives HHMI Gilliam Fellowship
August 4, 2021
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20 UW researchers elected to the Washington State Academy of Sciences for 2021
July 29, 2021
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Professors Nonpareil
July 28, 2021