Honors and Awards

Jen Rose Smith, 2025 On the Brinck Award Winner
February 13, 2026
Portrait photo of Professor Sarah Elwood
AAG Presidential Achievement Award
February 10, 2026
Students seated at a table conducting research in a library
Announcing Our 2025 Halmo Geography Scholars!
June 20, 2025
College of Arts & Sciences Students Recognized in the 2025 Husky 100
June 12, 2025
Graduating students seated at Commencement
2025 Awards, Honors and Achievements
June 11, 2025
Global Visionaries: Tony Lucero
May 7, 2025
2024 Awards, Honors and Achievements
June 10, 2024
Iain Hay
Congratulations to Ph.D. Alum Iain Hay, Recipient of the 2024 Laureat d’honneur from the International Geographical Union!
April 22, 2024
Teddy Davenport, Ph.C., receives Susan Hanson Dissertation Proposal Award from Feminist Geography Specialty Group
April 10, 2024
Film Still from The Answer
Geography Student Film Featured in Study Abroad Film Festival
January 16, 2024
Buy Now, Get Newer - Tomorrow. Worry-Free Returns.
Announcement: Winners of the GeoAI Prompt Contest
November 16, 2023
Flyer with details for GeoAI Prompt Contest
GeoAI Prompt Contest: Visioning Grand Challenges for Humanity and Earth
October 24, 2023
Washington GIS Association Awards First Place Prize to UW Geographers Shane Dang and Alex Kirchmeier
July 13, 2023
Portrait Photography of Isaac Rivera, Ph.D.
Meet Isaac Rivera, One of the 2023 College of Arts and Sciences Graduate Medalists
July 13, 2023
2023 Awards, Honors and Achievements
June 12, 2023
Headshot for Katelyn Saechao
2023 Husky 100: Katelyn Saechao
April 23, 2023
Kels and Toby Gallant from the Student Disability Commission stand together to the right of the emergency contraception vending machine located on the first floor of Odegaard Library in the cafe section
Announcing Our 2023 Halmo Geography Scholar: Kels Rizzo!
April 5, 2023
Yuying Xie Receives the Frank Jenkins Jr. Fellowship in Labor Studies
November 18, 2022
2022 Awards, Honors and Achievements
June 15, 2022
Congratulations to our 2022 AAG Award Winners!
March 14, 2022
Olivia Orosco outside next to a bush
Geography’s Howard Martin Award Recipients
December 14, 2021
2021 Awards, Honors and Achievements
June 8, 2021
Unlearning Poverty
May 19, 2021
Portrait of Gerald W. Halmo
Remembering UW Geography Alum Gerald Halmo
March 30, 2021
Applied Research Fellows develop tool to explore population changes in King County
September 21, 2020
Geography Major Racquel West
Four "Remarkable" Dean's Medalists
July 9, 2020
2020 Awards, Honors and Achievements
June 16, 2020
Front cover of report "The Union Effect: Raising Standards for Workers Across Washington," featuring three people packing boxes in a warehouse.
Report Co-Written by Presidential Dissertation Fellow Lee Fiorio Featured in "The Stand"
October 16, 2019
Laudelina Campos de Melo.
Ph.D. Candidate Caitlin Alcorn Wins AAG's Geographic Perspectives on Women Award for Dissertation Proposal
June 11, 2019
View of the Puget Sound and Discovery Park Lighthouse in Seattle
M.A. Student Amelia Schwartz Receives Award from UW Center for Human Rights for Work on Indigenous Water Rights
May 16, 2019
Professor Megan Ybarra Holding Her Book, Green Wars.
Professor Megan Ybarra's Green Wars Wins Award at the 2019 American Association of Geographers Conference
April 8, 2019
DAPL in geographical and historical context - Author: Isaac Rivera
First Year Ph.D. Student Isaac Rivera Receives Simpson Center's Digital Humanities Summer Fellowship!
March 12, 2019
Dr. Jay Lund smiles in a field on a sunny day.
Alum Profile: Dr. Jay Lund Elected to National Academy of Engineering
February 12, 2019
Students in GEOG 478 in autumn quarter
Enacting Social Justice Principles in the Classroom... and in the City
January 29, 2019
Rob Anderson sitting on a fallen tree watching the water flow down a creek.
Graduate student Rob Anderson receives the Joff Hanauer Fellowship!
August 9, 2018
Alejandro Montesinos standing with his award.
Alejandro Montesinos receives an OMA&D Merit Award
June 4, 2018
Maggie Wilson
Ph.D. student Maggie Wilson receives European Union research grant
April 16, 2018
Racquel West
Racquel West named 2018 McNair Scholar
April 2, 2018
Skye Naslund
Skye Naslund Awarded Richard and Joanne Morrill Graduate Student Fellowship
March 23, 2018
Yurika Harada.
Yurika Harada Receives Mary Gates Research Scholarship
January 22, 2018
Mobility Patterns from Digital Trace Data
Lee Fiorio Wins First Place in CSDE Competition
December 7, 2017
Arianna Muirow
Graduate Student Awarded Henry M. Jackson Leadership Fellowship
August 14, 2017
Yolanda Valencia receives GO-MAP Dissertation Fellowship 
July 9, 2017
Ayanda Masilela
Graduate student Ayanda Masilela receives the Joff Hanauer Fellowship!
May 30, 2017
Left to right: Kuang Sheng, Christina Chappell, Murphy Stack, Nina Mesihovic, Reyna Marquez
Five Geographers Win Mary Gates Research Scholarships
May 1, 2017
Caitlin with domestic workers and legislators on the day the amendment extending labor rights to domestic workers was passed in April 2013.
Geography Students Awarded Chester Fritz Fellowship 
April 26, 2017
Ybarra_Biermann
Two Geography faculty receive Royalty Research Fund Grants
April 5, 2017
Andre Ortega
Ph.D. alum Andre Ortega receives award for excellence in research
March 28, 2017
Professor Young
UW Geography Ph.D. grad receives teaching award from another UW
March 28, 2017
Kuang Sheng
Undergrad Geographer Named to Husky 100
March 15, 2017