Honors and Awards

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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)
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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)
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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)
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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)
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Yuying Xie Receives the Frank Jenkins Jr. Fellowship in Labor Studies
(November 18, 2022)
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2022 Awards, Honors and Achievements
(June 15, 2022)
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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)
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2021 Awards, Honors and Achievements
(June 8, 2021)
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Unlearning Poverty
(May 19, 2021)
Portrait of Gerald W. Halmo
Remembering UW Geography Alum Gerald Halmo
(March 30, 2021)
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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)
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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)
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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)
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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)
Nina
Geography Undergrad Wins Two UW Scholarships
(March 9, 2017)
Simpson Center
Fellowship awarded to Geography Department Grads
(February 27, 2017)
Lauren Drakopulos
Lauren Drakopulos awarded a Washington Sea Grant Science Communications Fellowship
(April 19, 2016)
Members of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus Institute’s Congressional Internship Program
Junior Geography major César García earns a place in the Congressional Hispanic Caucus Institute’s Congressional Internship Program
(April 19, 2016)
Edgar Sandoval, Jen Porter, and Rob Anderson
Geography Graduate Students win 2016 NSF Fellowships!
(April 19, 2016)
Portrait of Prof. Katharyne Mitchell
Katharyne Mitchell receives Guggenheim Fellowship
(April 12, 2016)