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Recent Awards

We are thrilled to highlight the recent recipients of our research awards and grants, whose groundbreaking work continues to push the boundaries of knowledge and innovation. Below, you will find Seattle University's distinguished faculty and staff who have been honored with these prestigious awards, recognizing their exceptional contributions to their respective fields.

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Law School Receives Funds to Assess and Redesign Program

The Law school has received a grant from the Washington State Bar Association to assess and redesign their Moderate Means Program.

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Engineering Faculty Awarded Grant from American Society for Engineering Education

Drs. Wes Lauer, Teodora Shuman and Shiny Abraham were recently awarded funds from the American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) Engineering for One Planet Mini-grant program.

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Chemistry Faculty Awarded Grant from National Science Foundation

The National Science Foundation (NSF) has awarded funds to Dr. Jennifer Sorensen, teaching professor in chemistry, and colleagues at other institutions to work with local communities to develop strategies that address systemic barriers to recruiting and supporting K-12 STEM teachers from underrepresented backgrounds.

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Seattle University Receives Grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation

Seattle University's College of Education has received from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation a three-year, $2.2 million grant to work in partnership with six publicly funded charter schools and three traditional public schools across Washington.

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Arts and Sciences Faculty Receives Grant to Study Climate Policies

Dr. John Armstrong, assistant professor of environmental studies in the College of Arts and Sciences, has received a grant from the American Political Science Association to investigate the drivers behind city community-wide low-carbon transition policies.

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Associate Professor Awarded NSF Grant to Study History of the Milky Way

Dr. Hughes Clark, associate professor of physics, was recently awarded funds from the National Science Foundation (NSF)—along with collaborators at three other primarily undergraduate institutions, Western Washington University, St. Martin’s University and the College of Idaho—to obtain and analyze new observations of some of the oldest stars in the Galaxy to understand which originated from “globular clusters,” spherical groups of thousands of stars bound together by gravity.

History Professor Receives Grant to Support Undergraduate Workshop

Dr. Robin Reich, assistant professor of history in the College of Arts and Sciences, received a grant from the Medieval Academy of America to support an undergraduate research workshop.

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Professor Agnieszka Miguel Awarded NSF Grant to Increase Diversity Among ECE Faculty

Dr. Agnieszka Miguel, professor of electrical and computer engineering, was recently awarded $800,000 from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to increase diversity among electrical and computer engineering (ECE) faculty by supporting women and others from backgrounds that are historically underrepresented in ECE fields.