Letter from the Dean
Dear Graduate Alumni and Friends: Welcome to The Graduate School's spring issue of our Graduate Education E-Newsletter. As those first buds of spring begin breaking through new ground, The Graduate School is also developing efforts to break new ground to benefit graduate students, alumni and our broader community. More...
This year's GPE Week brought graduate and professional students together with alumni, community leaders, state officials, UW faculty and leadership to celebrate the achievements and impacts that graduate and professional students make while at the University of Washington and beyond. 
Marilynne Robinson, Ph.D., a UW alumna, teaches and writes with passion using life experience to guide her. 
A School of Pharmacy Graduate Alumna and ARCS Scholar, Cheryl Zimmerman, Ph.D., provides insight into the need for continued graduate student support and how it continues to impact her work to find drug delivery methods for cancer patients. 
Raising awareness of the positive influences of graduate diversity fellows, the Graduate Diversity Fellows Dinner was a resounding success. 
New position to enhance the academic experience through diversity at the UW and actively recruit diverse graduate students to the sciences and engineering. 
Researching performative expressions of the cultural identity of Samoans in the U.S., Rochelle Tuitagava'a Fonoti, takes inspiration from an extended family wherever she goes. 
The new Office of Postdoctoral Affairs serves postdoctoral fellows with educational programs and attention to special needs. 
The Graduate School Medal is a prestigious award that recognizes the "scholar-citizen" -- an individual whose academic expertise and social awareness are integrated in a way that demonstrates active civic engagement and a capacity to promote political, cultural or social change. 
The UW Press has published more than 3,800 titles in its 85-year history. The latest Press-published book is a novel, Nikolai's Fortune, by Solveig Torvik.