News & Awards

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.