Honors and Awards

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Meet Our 2025 Graduate Medalists
July 1, 2025
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AL&L Instructor Anselma Prihandita Wins Prestigious Nebula Award
June 13, 2025
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College of Arts & Sciences Students Recognized in the 2025 Husky 100
June 12, 2025
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AL&L Student Chris McCarty Makes Husky 100
April 23, 2025
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AL&L Chinese Students Win Speech Contest Prizes 
April 17, 2025
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Three AL&L Assistant Professors Awarded Simpson Center First Book Fellowships
April 14, 2025
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AL&L Graduate Student Dana Fried Awarded Critical Language Scholarship for Summer 2025
April 8, 2025
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AL&L PhD Candidate Jieyu Zhou Receives NFMLTA-NCOLCTL Research Award
February 11, 2025
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AL&L Double-Major Honored as Dean's Medalist in the Humanities
July 1, 2024
Richard Salomon
Professor Emeritus Richard Salomon Elected Honorary Member of the Austrian Academy of Sciences
April 22, 2024
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AL&L Undergrad Awarded Critical Languages Scholarship for Chinese
March 7, 2024
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Professor Heekyoung Cho Featured in HUMANITIES Magazine
February 2, 2024
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Ted Mack Wins Inaugural Scaglione Prize for East Asian Studies from MLA
December 13, 2023
Ying-Hsiu Chou
Ying-Hsiu Chou Wins Young Scholar Award
October 5, 2023
Nobuko Horikawa
Nobuko Horikawa Wins Distinguished Dissertation Award
June 21, 2023
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Asia Notes 2022
March 7, 2023
Izumi Matsuda-Kiami
Izumi Matsuda-Kiami Wins National Award
November 14, 2022
Nobuko Horikawa
Nobuko Horikawa receives fellowship awards for dissertation research
October 27, 2022
Ying-Hsiu Chou
Ying-Hsiu Chou Wins Film Festival Award
October 13, 2022
Ying-Hsiu Chou
Ying-Hsiu Chou wins TOP Grant
September 7, 2022
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UW, a jewel of Seattle, shines in global academic ranking
August 21, 2022
Asian L&L 2022 Convocation Program Booklet
2022 Convocation and Awards Ceremony and Reception
June 22, 2022
“The Mountain is Empty; A Pinecone Falls,” line from a poem by Wei Yingwu
Paul Atkins Awarded Selden Prize for Translation
December 7, 2021
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Prof. Richard Salomon Named to American Academy of Arts and Sciences
May 3, 2021
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Four UW faculty named to American Academy of Arts & Sciences
April 27, 2021
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Four UW faculty named to American Academy of Arts & Sciences
April 26, 2021
Izumi Matsuda-Kiami
Izumi Matsuda-Kiami Receives the Leslie Birkland Award
February 25, 2021
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[51st Korea Times Translation Awards] Fiction Grand Prize winner Hannah Hertzog
November 11, 2020
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22 UW students receive Fulbright awards
June 4, 2020
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Professor Richard G. Salomon Awarded the 2020 Khyentse Foundation Prize for Outstanding Buddhist Translation
May 29, 2020
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UW Books in brief: Poetry of India’s Bani-Thani, equitable parent-school collaboration, building military cultural competence — and a 2019 National Jewish Book Award
February 3, 2020
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Professor Justin Jesty Wins ASAP Book Award
October 31, 2019
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Congratulations to our new Asian Languages and Literature graduates!
June 19, 2019
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University of Washington is a top producer of Fulbright recipients
February 21, 2019
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Asian L&L receives Japanese Foreign Minister's 2018 Commendation
July 20, 2018
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From Japan, an award honoring scholarship and community-building
July 18, 2018
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The 2018 Graduation and Awards Ceremony
June 12, 2018
UW Awards of Excellence
Big honors to A&S in UW Awards of Excellence
March 28, 2016
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Benjamin Lee selected as Carnegie Junior Fellow
March 25, 2016