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Honors News

June 14, 2021

There are many roads to distinction as a UW undergrad. Students might earn a spot in GPA-based honors societies (like PhiBetaKappa) or designations like Suma Cum Laude, President’s Medals, Rhodes...

June 9, 2021

Jacob Cooper Wins Teaching Award in Honors

Jake Cooper holding his newborn son, Ari

By Christina Wardwell While classes have been online for most of the year, students seek out teachers that can overcome difficult circumstances and deliver exciting material to keep students involved...

May 26, 2021

Courtney Hooks on Unlearning Poverty

Junior Courtney Hooks signed up for Vicky Lawson’s Abolishing Poverty class to understand the reasons for housing instability. Based on her family’s experiences, she had a sense of the relationship between race, criminal...

April 22, 2021

The Work Continues for Accountability and Justice

mural honoring George Floyd from black lives matter protest (photo by munshots)

President Cauce’s blog invites us to reflect on the verdict in Derek Chauvin’s trial and the need for continued action. Accountability, in this case, has happened in the sense that...

March 4, 2021

Congratulations to our new President’s medalists

The Honors community congratulates this year’s (2019-2020) President’s Medalists, who are all pursuing their undergraduate degrees at UW with Interdisciplinary Honors. Click here to read the article about Sam Colgan,...

March 1, 2021

Passionate Policy Powerhouses

May and Sam Lim at LA Women's March, holding signs of support with their parents and sister.

Samson (Sam) and May Lim are a pair of world-changing UW graduates who’ve continually impressed the Honors community with their compassion, curiosity, and devotion to social justice. They also just...

February 10, 2021

Defining success on your own terms, by Juliana Villegas

Dr. Villegas stands in foreground. Several students stand in background, dipping their heads into what appears to be floating umbrellas.

Keynote address at UW’s 2020 commencement ceremony for first-generation undergraduate and graduate students (across all majors). Written and delivered by Dr. Juliana Villegas, Associate Director of UW Honors Program (Seattle...

February 9, 2021

Interview with producer of Digital Humanities Day

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“What can you do with a humanities or social sciences degree? What does it mean to study the liberal arts in the current moment?” These questions come up often in the Interdisciplinary Honors...

November 30, 2020

Marium Raza, “pre-med humanist”

Interdisciplinary Honors senior Marium Raza was featured in UW’s October issue of “Perspectives” Newsletter for her outstanding contributions to public health whilst studying at the University of Washington. Marium recently...

November 18, 2020

Epic campus scenes from Nolan Kim

Many of us are longing for the beauty of our amazing campus, and Honors student Nolan Kim has offered up this reminder, with shots of our favorite campus views, photographed...

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