Awards

Chemistry professor Lloyd Smith named to Analytical Scientist Power List. The list honors analytical scientists who’ve had an impact in health, sustainability and innovation. Read a Q&A with professor Smith.

The Center for Journalism Ethics will present the 2025 Anthony Shadid Award for Journalism Ethics to a team of three reporters from The Seattle Times for their work showing the barriers preventing young people from accessing treatment for opioid addiction in Washington.

19 exceptional L&S graduate students have been selected as recipients of the 2024-25 Campus-Wide Teaching Assistant Awards, recognizing their strengths and commitment surrounding the craft of teaching.

Thirteen L&S Tenure-track assistant professors and tenured faculty announced as 2025-26 Vilas Associates Competition awardees.

Sharon Yixuan Li, assistant professor of computer sciences is among 126 scientists across the United States and Canada that has been selected to receive the 2025 Sloan Research Fellows.

An interdisciplinary research effort including the Department of Botany is developing plant-based technology to convert sun energy into essential aromatic compounds.

Professor of Mathematics, Mihaela Ifrim, receives Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers, the highest honor bestowed by the U.S. government on outstanding scientists and engineers early in their careers.

The University Staff Excellence Awards honor staff members for their excellence in effectiveness, innovation, creativity, originality, leadership, climate, and service to the university.

Five L&S faculty members have been chosen to receive this year’s Distinguished Teaching Awards, an honor given out since 1953 to recognize some of the university’s finest educators.