Honors and Awards

Gold Medal
Scholarship Awards Announced For 2025-2026
June 13, 2025
Annie Franklin
Annie Franklin Awarded Dean’s Medal from UW College of Arts & Sciences
June 12, 2025
Hannah Wiley
Hannah C. Wiley, Awarded the 2025 Marsha L. Landolt Distinguished Graduate Mentor Award!  
June 3, 2025
Suburban Flury Still
Paul Moore Composes Music for Thrilling Documentary
October 7, 2024
Still screen from Juliet McMains' film
Videodance Portraits with Professor McMains 
September 11, 2024
Gavin Besteman and Joan Swartwood
2024-2025 Undergraduate Student Scholarships
August 28, 2024
body space time residency recipients in collage
bst Residency Recipients Announced 
November 27, 2023
Scholarship Recipients for the 2023-2024 year
Undergraduate Student Scholarships Announced 
July 7, 2023
Rouge Reflection Poster
Professor Juliet McMains creates Award-Winning Film starring UW Dance Alum and music by Alex Dugdale 
May 15, 2023
Emily Uematsu Adviser of the Month
Emily Uematsu announced as APAC Adviser of the Month! 
October 10, 2022
Frances Herr
Frances Herr wins College of Arts & Sciences Dean's Medal in the Natural Sciences 
July 7, 2022
Graduation photo of Helene Tsutsumoto Yorozu
Announcing The Helene Tsutsumoto Yorozu and Arthur S. Yorozu Endowed Fellowship in Dance
May 9, 2022
two dancers sit on a slanted bench
Performance and the Afterlives of Injustice receives honorable mention for the Dance Studies Association de la Torre Bueno award
October 4, 2021
image contains book cover "Performance and the Afterlives of Injustice"
Dean Catherine M. Cole’s book launched as part of the National Humanities Center’s Virtual Book Club
March 2, 2021
headshots of each invited Village Theater artist resident.
Imana Gunawan (‘15) invited to Village Theatre’s Residency
December 10, 2020
Alexandra Bradshaw-Yerby
Alumni News: Alexandra Bradshaw- Yerby named Utah Higher Education Educator of the Year; Fausto Rivera joins Ririe Woodbury Dance Company
November 4, 2020
Etienne Cakpo plays percussion and smiles
Etienne Cakpo is the DEAW 2020 Dance Educator of the Year 
September 28, 2020
Drew sitting on a fence with his arm resting on his knee
Drew Callipare receives Dean's Medal
June 30, 2020
Corrie teaching dance class
bst Residency Postponed
March 30, 2020
Louis holds a computer.
Dance Minor, Louis Maliyam is the UW’s sophomore President's Medalist
March 4, 2020
stary sky
Leading Edge Arts Research: Dance Faculty Awards
January 21, 2020
Jeffrey Frace and Rachael Lincoln performing in 11 comets
Mellon Faculty Fellows in the Arts: Rachael Lincoln & Jeffrey Fracé
January 9, 2020
Zakkir Rahman
Zakkir Rahman Awarded Mary Gates Research Scholarship
January 8, 2020
Dani Tirrell
Dani Tirrell Receives Mayor's Arts Award  
September 3, 2019
Photo of Kevin Lam
Kevin Lam Awarded Fulbright Fellowship 
June 14, 2019
Brian J. Evans
Graduate Student, Brian J. Evans, "Dances to Freedom,"
February 10, 2019
Delostrinos with her leg lifted high behind her
Alumni Cheryl Delostrinos featured in Perspectives Newsletter 
January 11, 2019
Dance Crush
University of Washington Alumni and Faculty Receive 2018 DanceCrush Awards. 
December 3, 2018
Shannon Barnes
UW Alumni Receives Washington State Dance Educator of the Year
September 18, 2018
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Kelly Canaday Receives Prestigious Award
June 7, 2018
Lisa Kwak
Lisa Kwak Selected as 2018 A&S Dean's Medalist
June 6, 2018
DanceCrush Spotlight: Rachael Lincoln
DanceCrush Spotlight: Rachael Lincoln
December 16, 2017
Lincoln and Seiters, "an attic an exit" photo RJ Muna
Alumni and faculty win Dance Crush Awards
December 5, 2016
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$750,000 Mellon Foundation grant funds research and innovation in the arts
March 4, 2016
Jason Ohlberg in Chamber Dance Company, 2014
Jason Ohlberg wins prestigious medal
August 7, 2015
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Congratulations to Faculty Member Jeff Curtis
April 17, 2014
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Chamber Dance Company: Seattle Times Top Pick for Fall 2013
September 11, 2013
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2013 Bonderman Travel Fellows Named
June 19, 2013
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Stephanie Liapis, MFA Dance awarded Travel Fellowship
June 1, 2013
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Congrats To Alumnus Hengda Li
February 13, 2011