Lesley Everett, 2006 Honors graduate in biochemistry, Mary Gates Research Scholar, and Gates Cambridge Scholar, is featured on the cover of The Gates Scholar magazine winter issue, the twice-yearly publication featuring current and alumni Gates Cambridge scholar activities. Read her article, “Searching for Sickle Cell.”
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Unique lens into human rights in Kenya comes from Kenyan artists
Human rights in Kenya will be highlighted locally via an art show as a result of an African Studies seminar in Kenya. Erin Murphy, Honors alumna, and current graduate student participated in the seminar “Human Rights and Social Transformation in Kenya” in Nairobi, Kenya, last summer and is one of the students coordinating a show and sale of artwork by Kenyan artists.
Students share their talents at first Honors Open Mic
Dimming the lights, scrambling to find a seat and trying desperately not to drip hot coffee on anyone, on Thursday, December 3, UW Honors students settled into the upstairs room of U District institution Café Allegro to see what their peers had to offer.
2009 Bonderman Travel Fellows named
Eleven University of Washington students recently received word that they’ve been awarded a Bonderman Travel Fellowship. Students traveling with this $20,000 fellowship set off on journeys that are at least eight months long and take them to at least two regions of the world. While traveling, students may not pursue academic study, projects, or research.
UW Honors students selected to participate in Global Honors College seminar on sustainability
Eight Asian and American universities—University of Washington, Columbia, Harvard, Korea, National University of Singapore, Peking, Waseda, and Yale—are considering the formation of a Global Honors College that will regularly assemble groups of faculty and students to study, on site and on line, issues of enduring and emerging global concern.
UW honors local 5-8th graders for outstanding academic abilities
Nearly 900 fifth through eighth grade students from around Washington were honored for their outstanding verbal and/or mathematical abilities by the University of Washington at an Award Recognition Ceremony on March 29, 2009.
Honors student Teresa Dang on what she felt her education was missing
In the Honors seminar “Teaching What We Know,” students were assigned to write a narrative that “reflects upon and challenges what you had known about ‘education.’”