Faculty

The UW has approximately 3,500 faculty members assigned to the regular instructional program and an additional 600 faculty positions funded from research grants and contracts. An excellent faculty is the core of the University.

The UW faculty is distinguished by the many honors its members have received from professional societies and independent bodies. Since 1989, four UW faculty members have won Nobel Prizes in physics and medicine, a fifth won a Nobel in medicine for work done primarily at Seattle's Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, and a sixth won a Nobel in medicine for research that began at Columbia University. A faculty member in the English Department won the 1990 National Book Award for fiction. UW faculty have received nine fellowships from the MacArthur Foundation -- the so-called "genius awards."

The UW also has 43 members in the National Academy of Sciences, 51 members in the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and 37 members in the Institute of Medicine.