UW News
Richard Anderson
June 14, 2021
Faculty/staff honors: Humanitarian award, early career research support, literary journal guest editor
![Richard Anderson, professor in the UW's Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering, has received the 2020 ACM Eugene L. Lawler Award for Humanitarian Contributions Within Computer Science and Informatics from the Association for Computer Machinery.](https://uw-s3-cdn.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/6/2021/06/11150949/Richard-Anderson-150x150.jpg)
Recent honors and achievements for UW faculty include an award for humanitarian contributions to computer science, early career research recognition and support, and the guest-editing of a new anthology of Black American literature.
January 12, 2016
UW computer scientists to make financial products better and more available for the poor
![Photo of mPesa outlet](https://uw-s3-cdn.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/6/2016/01/04161205/m-pesa-Brian-Harrles-flickr-150x150.jpg)
UW computer scientists, with a grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, are launching a new research group to develop technological solutions that will make financial products more available to the lowest-income people around the world.