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Honors and Awards

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2025 Dean's Medalists, Energized & Inspiring

June 26, 2025

From Tacoma to Bothell, Computer science to Linguistics, UW's 2025 teachers of the year shine bright

June 18, 2025
Faculty/staff honors: Innovation grant, best paper, outstanding research award

Faculty/staff honors: Innovation grant, best paper, outstanding research award

June 11, 2025
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Scott Magelssen Honored for Outstanding Undergraduate Mentorship

May 15, 2025
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UW Honors Jasmine Jamillah Mahmoud with Prestigious Distinguished Award

May 15, 2025

UW announces 2024 Awards of Excellence recipients

June 15, 2024

TIME 2024 WOMEN OF THE YEAR: The Poet Whose Writing Will Be Launched Into Space

February 20, 2024
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US POET LAUREATE AND UW DRAMA ALUMNAE ADA  LIMÓN (98) ANNOUNCED As A 2023 MACARTHUR FELLOW!

October 4, 2023

US Poet Laureate and UW Drama alumnae Ada Limón announced as a 2023 MacArthur Fellow

October 3, 2023

Meet this year’s MacArthur ‘genius grant’ recipients, including a hula master and the poet laureate

October 3, 2023

UW, a jewel of Seattle, shines in global academic ranking

August 21, 2022

Arts & Sciences' Fab Four for 2022

June 23, 2022

Malika Oyetimein Appointed Merrimack Rep’s Artist-in-Residence

August 4, 2021

Malika Oyetimein Appointed Merrimack Rep’s Artist-in-Residence

July 20, 2021

Awards of Excellence

June 15, 2021

Awards of Excellence

June 14, 2021
Portraits of scholarship recipients

Congratulations to our 2021 scholarship recipients!

June 7, 2021

"Faculty/staff honors: Field research grant, staffer’s play streams, cartoon remembrance UW News staff"

March 8, 2021

"Faculty/staff honors: Field research grant, staffer’s play streams, cartoon remembrance UW News staff"

March 2, 2021
Karen Hartman and Darby Sherwood on Zoom

[Here/Now] Episode 3: Darby & Karen

December 9, 2020
Photos of all scholarship recipients

Congratulations to our 2020 scholarship recipients!

June 8, 2020

22 UW students receive Fulbright awards

June 4, 2020

Faculty/staff honors: Awards in architecture education, biomaterials research; nursing, cloud computing fellowships; and drama leader named among most Seattle’s most influential

February 10, 2020

An Essential List of Influential People of the Decade

January 1, 2020

7 memorable Seattle theater moments of the 2010s

December 26, 2019
The Gregory Awards presented by Theatre Puget Sound 2019

Congratulations the 2019 UW Drama Gregory Award Nominees! 

September 19, 2019

Valerie Curtis-Newton Receives Highest Honor at 2019 Gregory Awards

September 11, 2019
Dean Robert Stacey with 2019 Dean's Medalists and Graduate Medalists

Students & Superlatives

August 7, 2019
Sunam Ellis at 2019 School of Drama Graduation Ceremony / Photo by Logan Guerrero

"Above all else, be kind" // PATP alum Sunam Ellis delivers Drama 2019 Graduation Ceremony keynote

June 27, 2019
Daniel Alexander Jones and Karen Hartman, 2019 Guggenheim Fellows

Two members of the UW Drama family named 2019 Guggenheim Fellows

April 19, 2019
Malika Oyetimein, Cassius Clay

UW Drama Family Members Nominated for Seattle Theater Writers Awards

January 29, 2019
Magelssen (R) and crew mates suit up at the Museum of Flight’s Challenger Learning Center.

Scott Magelssen awarded Petersen Endowed Fellowship

January 8, 2019
Aurora Valentinetti

Emeritus Faculty Aurora Valentinetti Wins Distinguished Teaching Award

September 25, 2018

Congratulations to the UW Drama Gregory Award Nominees! 

September 6, 2018
Odai Johnson Distinguished Alum University of Utah

Professor Odai Johnson honored with Distinguished Alumni Award from the Department of Theatre at the University of Utah

October 3, 2017
Tina Polzin

Tina Polzin (MFA '15) Awarded Innovation Seed Grant for Lady from the Sea 

April 21, 2017
Professor Valerie Curtis-Newton

Professor Valerie Curtis-Newton Awarded Artist Trust's Innovator Award

March 10, 2017

Congratulations to Our Gregory Award Winners! 

October 25, 2016

2016–17 Scholarship & Award Recipients

June 21, 2016
Simon Tran at the Edmund Pettus Bridge during the Civil Rights Pilgrimage with UW's Dept. of Communication.

Mary Gates Scholars x 3

April 11, 2016
Desdemona Chiang

Desdemona Chiang (MFA '09) receives 2016 Vilcek Prize for Creative Promise 

February 3, 2016
First Place Team: Mickey's Magic Garden (Front Row Left to Right)- Geoff Backstrom and Katie Eastman. (Back Row Left to Right) - Courtney Irby and David Borning - ©Disney photo by Gary Krueger.

David Borning (Senior, Drama Design) Awarded First Place in Walt Disney Imagineering Imaginations Design Competition

January 29, 2016
David Borning

Senior David Borning's Design Team Named a Finalist for the 2016 Walt Disney Imagineering Imaginations Design Competition

January 13, 2016
Skip Mercier

Skip Mercier Receives TBA Award for Outstanding Scenic Design

November 20, 2015
Matthew Smucker. Photo by Kelly O. Lettering by Mike Force.

Matt Smucker (MFA '02) nominated for Stranger Genius Award

June 10, 2015
Illustration by Andrew Rae.

UW Drama makes The Hollywood Reporter's list of top 25 drama schools

June 1, 2015
Fireman, by Tommy Smith (BA '01), at Echo Theater Company. Photo by Jeff Galfer.

Alums Win L.A. Drama Critics Circle Awards

March 17, 2015
Mitchell Krawczyk, 2013-2014 junior president's medalist

Mitchell Krawczyk, UTS Social Media Coordinator, Selected for President's Medal

February 24, 2015

School of Drama Ranked Top 10 for Drama Kids

January 12, 2015
Valerie Curtis-Newton

Valerie Curtis-Newton Awarded Crosscut's Courage Award in Culture

October 28, 2014