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Donor Highlights

The collective support of our individual, corporate and foundation partners -- financially and through contributions of time and knowledge -- enables The Graduate School to fund graduate students who create ideas that influence the academic community, the business world and our community at large.

Achievement Rewards for College Scientists (ARCS)
Launched close to half a century ago by a group of dedicated women, ARCS - Achievement Rewards for College Scientists, is committed to funding graduate education. The Seattle Chapter and its volunteers - over 100 women in the Puget Sound area - have contributed a remarkable $9.2 million to the UW in support of graduate education. Recognized as one of the University's largest annual donors, ARCS pledged $2.5 million to the UW in 2004, extending their impact for years to come and building on their legacy of graduate support in the sciences, mathematics, engineering and medicine.

Bonderman Travel Fellowships The Bonderman Travel Fellowships were created through gifts from David Bonderman, who earned his undergraduate degree in Russian from the University of Washington in 1963. After graduating from Harvard Law School, he received a Sheldon Fellowship that allowed him to travel internationally. The experience had a profound and lasting impact on his life. His UW Fellowships focus on independent international travel and its often life-changing effects. Bonderman prefers to see students travel while they are in the midst of their degree programs, but asks that they not pursue academic study, projects or research, nor may they participate in programs as they travel. On their own, they wander and wonder, exploring and discovering people, places, ways of being in the world, and themselves.

Huckabay Teaching Fellowships
UW alumni and Laureates Durward and Susan Huckabay established a graduate endowment to provide students with the opportunity to enrich their graduate experience by focusing on their preparation for teaching. Established in 1995, each fellowship provides one quarter of support to allow fellows to design and develop a pedagogy project with a faculty collaborator from the UW or from a nearby academic institution. Pedagogy projects, proposed by graduate students in collaboration with faculty mentors, provide unequaled opportunities to prepare graduate students for the teaching aspects of their future professional lives, whether in higher education, industry or government.

Rosetta Inpharmatics Fellowship in Molecular Profiling
Rosetta Inpharmatics, a wholly owned subsidiary of Merck & Co., funds a combination of predoctoral and postdoctoral fellowship awards at the University of Washington each year. The fellowship program provides eleven months of stipend funding for advanced study and research in statistics, genetics or molecular biology applied to molecular profiling. The partnership between Rosetta Inpharmatics and the UW significantly enhances research opportunities in molecular profiling in Seattle, providing much-needed funding for students to concentrate solely on their research pursuits. This partnership also expands the role of the UW in Seattle's biotechnology industry and spotlights the importance of graduate education in scientific innovation.

How to apply for a Rosetta Fellowship