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July 19, 2010

Congratulations Robinson Center students inducted into Phi Beta Kappa Honor Society

Undergraduate Academic Affairs

What do seventeen presidents, 38 U.S. Supreme Court Justices, 136 Nobel laureates, fashion consultant Carson Kressley, actor Glenn Close, poet Rita Dove, broadcaster Tom Browkaw, poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow and guitarist and singer for Weezer Rivers Cuomo have in common with ten students from UAA’s Robinson Center for Young Scholars?


May 27, 2010

2010 Bonderman Travel Fellows named

Undergraduate Academic Affairs

Fourteen University of Washington students recently received word that they’ve been awarded a Bonderman Travel Fellowship. Students traveling with this $20,000 fellowship set off on solo journeys that are at least eight months long and take them to at least two regions of the world. While traveling, students may not pursue academic study, projects, or research.


April 22, 2010

Honors students explore the Olympic National Park over spring break

Undergraduate Academic Affairs

Over spring break, UW Honors students set out to explore Washington’s Olympic National Park in the Honors Program’s inaugural Experiential Spring Break. Through service, research, discussion, hiking, questioning, reading, and–above all–more hiking, they explored why this place matters in our culture and to our future.


April 16, 2010

Service and leadership roots run deep for Honors alumnus and his daughter, a current Honors student

Undergraduate Academic Affairs

Hear Washington State Attorney General and Honors alum Rob McKenna, ’85, and daughter Madeleine McKenna, a current Honors student, to share the roots of their commitments to service and leadership.


January 15, 2010

UAA alumna Lesley Everett featured in The Gates Scholar magazine

Undergraduate Academic Affairs

Lesley Everett, 2006 Honors graduate in biochemistry, Mary Gates Research Scholar, and Gates Cambridge Scholar, is featured on the cover of The Gates Scholar magazine winter issue, the twice-yearly publication featuring current and alumni Gates Cambridge scholar activities. Read her article, “Searching for Sickle Cell.”


December 18, 2009

Unique lens into human rights in Kenya comes from Kenyan artists

Undergraduate Academic Affairs

Human rights in Kenya will be highlighted locally via an art show as a result of an African Studies seminar in Kenya. Erin Murphy, Honors alumna, and current graduate student participated in the seminar “Human Rights and Social Transformation in Kenya” in Nairobi, Kenya, last summer and is one of the students coordinating a show and sale of artwork by Kenyan artists.


December 15, 2009

Students share their talents at first Honors Open Mic

Undergraduate Academic Affairs

Dimming the lights, scrambling to find a seat and trying desperately not to drip hot coffee on anyone, on Thursday, December 3, UW Honors students settled into the upstairs room of U District institution Café Allegro to see what their peers had to offer.


June 18, 2009

2009 Bonderman Travel Fellows named

Undergraduate Academic Affairs

Eleven University of Washington students recently received word that they’ve been awarded a Bonderman Travel Fellowship. Students traveling with this $20,000 fellowship set off on journeys that are at least eight months long and take them to at least two regions of the world. While traveling, students may not pursue academic study, projects, or research.


UW Honors students selected to participate in Global Honors College seminar on sustainability

Undergraduate Academic Affairs

Eight Asian and American universities—University of Washington, Columbia, Harvard, Korea, National University of Singapore, Peking, Waseda, and Yale—are considering the formation of a Global Honors College that will regularly assemble groups of faculty and students to study, on site and on line, issues of enduring and emerging global concern.


March 30, 2009

UW honors local 5-8th graders for outstanding academic abilities

Undergraduate Academic Affairs

Nearly 900 fifth through eighth grade students from around Washington were honored for their outstanding verbal and/or mathematical abilities by the University of Washington at an Award Recognition Ceremony on March 29, 2009.



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