University Faculty Lecture Award Archive

Since 1976, this annual award has honored current or emeritus faculty whose research, scholarship or art has been widely recognized by their peers and whose achievements have had a substantial impact on their profession, the research or performance of others, and society as a whole.

(Note: Central digital records only list recipients from 2000 to present. For a complete list of 1976–1999 honorees, consult the UW Libraries Special Collections).

View previous lectures below

• • Douglass Wood
    • • A Breath of Fresh Air (2026)
  • Kate Starbird
    • • A Spotlight on Rumors (2025)
  • Valerie Daggett:
    • • Revolutionary: The Quest to Detect and Cure Alzheimer’s (2024)
  • David W. Hertzog:
    • • Rocking the World of Physics (2023)
  • Valerie Curtis-Newton:
    • • Carving out a brave space (2022)
  • Jacqueline McMurtrie:
    • • Stand with the Innocent (2021)
  • Quintard Taylor:
    • • From the Pages of Blackpast (2019)
  • Michael H. Gelb, Boris and Barbara L. Weinstein:
    • • Newborn Screening for Treatable Genetic Diseases (2018)
  • Ray Hilborn:
    • • Sustaining Food From the Seas (2017)
  • Donald Grayson
    • • The Extinct Ice Age Mammals of North America (2016)
  • Lillian C. McDermott:
    • • Improving the Learning and Teaching of Science Through Discipline-Based Education Research (2015)
  • Stephen Gloyd:
    • • Achieving Health for All in the 21st Century (2014)
  • Batya Friedman
    • • The Shape of Being: Technology Design, Human Values and the Future (2013)
  • W. Lance Bennett:
    • • The Democratization of Truth: Communications and the Crisis of Contemporary Politics (2012)
  • Buddy Ratner:
    • • Regenerate, Rebuild, Restore — Bioengineering Contributions to the Changing Paradigm in Medicine (2011)
  • Peter Ward:
    • • Who is Afraid of the Big Bad Climate? What is the Worst That Global Warming Could Do? (2010)
  • Charles Hirschman:
    • • Immigration and American Identity (2009)
  • Gerald Pollack:
    • • Water, Energy and Life: Fresh Views From the Water’s Edge (2008)
  • John Toews:
    • • Thinking Historically about Thinking Historically: Identity Politics to Ethical Action (2007)
  • Carolyn Webster-Stratton:
    
    • • Helping Young Aggressive Children Beat the Odds: Parents, Children, Teachers and Dinosaurs (2006)
  • James Banks:
    • • Democracy, Diversity and Social Justice: Education in a Global Age (2005)
  • Lee Hartwell:
    • • Medical Research: The Agony and The Ecstacy (2004)
  • Bill Holm:
    • • The Exploration of Northwest Coast Indian Art (2003)
  • Bruce Margon:
    • • Cosmic Recycling: We Are Made of Stars (2000)