Honors & Awards

World Leaders

Due to the accomplishments of our top notch faculty, the UW receives more federal research funding than any other American public university.

Pictured here, E. Donnall Thomas (left), Leland Hartwell (center), and Linda Buck (right) were awarded the Nobel Prize in 1990, 2001, and 2004 in Physiology and Medicine, respectively.

Recent Faculty Honors

• Harwood, Raftery elected to the National Academy of Sciences
• Linda Wordeman receives Guggenheim Fellowship

Recent Major Grants

• NIH Grants $40 million to the Pacific Northwest Center for the National Children's Study at the UW
• University of Washington achieves $1 billion research milestone

Research Center Distinctions

• There are currently nine NIH Centers of Excellence at UW.
• The Center of Materials and Devices for Information Technology Research is the only NSF Science and Technology Center in all of Math & Physical Sciences in 2002.
• The UW Genome Center & Microscale Life Sciences Center are two of three NIH/NHGRI new Centers of Excellence in Genomic Science in 2002.
• The Friday Harbor Laboratory is one of the two new inaugural NIH/NIGMS Centers of Excellence in Complex Biomedical Systems Research in 2002.