The University of Washington is excited to announce this year’s Awards of Excellence winners for their outstanding dedication in teaching, mentoring, public service, staff support and more.
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Alumna Summa Laude Dignata Award
- Patty Hayes, ’76, ’80, School of Nursing; Director, Public Health–Seattle & King County
David B. Thorud Leadership Award — Faculty
- Virginia Broudy, Professor and Vice Chair, Department of Medicine; Chief of Medicine, Harborview Medical Center; Scripps Professor of Hematology
David B. Thorud Leadership Award — Staff
- Gene Woodard, Director, Building Services, UW Facilities
Distinguished Alumni Veteran Award
- Judge Ronald E. Cox (Ret.), ’73, School of Law; Captain, United States Army
Distinguished Librarian Award
- Justin Wadland, Interim Director, UW Tacoma Library; Associate Dean, University Libraries
Distinguished Retiree Excellence in Community Service Award
- Robert Roseth, Director (retired), UW News & Information
(Due to the large team recognized this year, the Distinguished Staff Award recipients are featured in their entirety at the end of the list of awards.)
Distinguished Service Award
- Gary Oertli, ’70, ’72, ’85, President Emeritus, South Seattle College
Distinguished Teaching Award
- Mabel Ezeonwu, Associate Professor, School of Nursing & Health Studies, UW Bothell
- Xiaosong Li, Harry & Catherine Jaynne Boand Endowed Professor of Chemistry, Chemistry, College of Arts & Sciences
- Karin D. Martin, Assistant Professor, Daniel J. Evans School of Public Policy & Governance
- Ali Rowhani-Rahbar, Associate Professor, Epidemiology, School of Public Health
- Ian Schnee, Senior Lecturer, Philosophy, College of Arts & Sciences
- Alyssa Taylor, Senior Lecturer, Bioengineering, College of Engineering
- Tanya Grace Velasquez, Senior Lecturer, Sociology, School of Interdisciplinary Arts & Sciences, UW Tacoma
Distinguished Teaching Legacy Award
- Jack P. Keating, Professor, Psychology, College of Arts & Science; Dean, UW Branch Campuses (posthumous)
Excellence in Teaching Award
- Charles C. Lanfear, Graduate Staff Assistant, Sociology, College of Arts & Sciences
- Vern Harner, Doctoral Candidate, Social Welfare School of Social Work
Marsha L. Landolt Distinguished Graduate Mentor Award
- Manka Varghese, Professor, College of Education
President’s Medalist Award
- Savannah Cassis, Psychology, College of Arts & Sciences
- Fa’aumu Kaimana, Medical Anthropology & Global Health and Sociology, College of Arts & Sciences
University Faculty Lecture Award
- Julianne Dalcanton, Professor and Chair, Astronomy, College of Arts & Sciences
Distinguished Staff Award
- Noah Briller, MRI Technologist, Education & Quality Assurance, Radiology, UW Medical Center
- Perry Acworth, Farm Manager, UW Farm
- Polly Olsen (Yakama), Tribal Liaison, Burke Museum
- Tyler Preder, Telecom Design Engineer, UW Information Technology
- Radiological Release Response Team
(53 awardees from the School of Medicine, Environmental Health & Safety and Harborview Medical Center)- Environmental Health & Safety
- Meli Ahumada, Assistant to the Director
- Stephen Bahl, Safety Professional 2
- Denise Bender, Assistant Director
- Phil Campbell, Assistant Director
- Cam-Ly Cao, Finance Manager
- Joyce Chambers, Program Operations Specialist
- Karen Crow, Outreach & Communications Specialist
- Natalie Daranyi, Occupational Health & Safety Specialist
- Jeff Forister, Environmental Control Technician 3
- Doug Gallucci, Assistant Director
- Alex Hagen, Program Operations Specialist
- Tony Han, Biosafety Officer
- Tracy Harvey, Lab Safety Manager
- Taylor Heiss, Program Operations Specialist
- Jennifer Johnson, Hospital Health Physicist
- Amy Lim, Program Operations Specialist
- Zara Llewellyn, Biological Safety Manager
- Kevin Makinson, Program Operations Specialist
- Matt Moeller, Environmental Programs Manager
- Scott Nelson, Fire Safety & Engineering Manager
- Raymond Noble, Program Operations Specialist / Shipping Coordinator
- Corbin Powell, Radiation Safety Technician 2
- Eric Stefansson, Senior Biosafety Officer
- Mark Volkert, Program Operations Specialist
- Eleanor Wade, Occupational Health & Safety Specialist
- John Wallace, Industrial Hygienist 2
- Mike Zittle, Manager of Program Operations
- Harborview Medical Center
- Alieu Ann, Director, Security Services
- Timothy Fredrickson, Director
- Ian Goodhew, Director of Government Relations
- Pam Jorgensen, Assistant Administrator
- Liz Kindred, Environment of Care Manager
- John Lynch, Associate Professor
- Esi Nkyekyer, Acting Assistant Professor
- Mike Warren, Director of Facilities & Engineering
- School of Medicine, Dean’s Office
- Susan Gregg, Director, Media Relations
- Nicole Gibran, Associate Dean
- Tina Mankowski, Associate Vice President for Medical Affairs
- Kim Wisecup, Manager, Space Planning & Management
- Mike Young, Facility Coordinator
- School of Medicine, Dept. of Comparative Medicine
- Alan Avalos, Postdoctoral Scholar
- Edwin Balahadia, Animal Technician 3
- Laura Campbell, Facility Operations Specialist
- Lesley Colby, Associate Professor
- Cory Conner, Program Coordinator
- Gary Fye, Program Operations Specialist
- Sarah Harris, Research Scientist / Engineer
- Virni Mamaril, Program Support Supervisor
- Dean Rashid, Facility Operations Specialist
- Rowen Razon, Animal Technician 3
- Nick Reyes, Lecturer
- Emily Spaulding, Research Scientist / Engineer 1
- Rick Wells, Research Scientist
- Environmental Health & Safety