Student Success

Congratulations to our Simpson Center Award Winners!
January 4, 2026
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Student Spotlight: Bella Quilici
December 2, 2025
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Alumni Spotlight: Shea Formanes
November 4, 2025
A woman is presenting in front of a large screen that displays the text "ANTI-K".
Soo Hee Kang gives talk to Issaquah teenagers
October 6, 2025
Poster image advertising It's a Match panel discussion on Environmental Objects.
Yandong Li gives talk on Media Objects
June 10, 2025
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CMS Major Kenneth Zacher Wins The Elizabeth Kerr Macfarlane Endowed Scholarship
 
June 10, 2025
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Student Spotlight: Ellie Bradbury
May 27, 2025
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2025 Undergraduate Research Symposium
May 7, 2025
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Finding Focus Behind the Camera
May 7, 2025
A woman climbs onto a carriage assisted by a doorman. Scene from Top Hat (1935)
Calac Nogueira's video essay "The Hand that Touches the Arm" published in [in]Transition
March 28, 2025
Q&A: How 12 UW researchers fell in love with their research
Q&A: How 12 UW researchers fell in love with their research
February 13, 2025
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Graduate Student Spotlight: Rin Huang
January 28, 2025
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Graduate Student Spotlight: Connor Telford
January 28, 2025
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Graduate Student Spotlight: Mavis Siu 
January 28, 2025
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Student Spotlight: Kellen McClure
November 10, 2024
CMS graduate Mawahib Ismail featured in Real Change article
August 8, 2024
2024 Husky 100
May 1, 2024
Sarah Choi awarded AAUW American Fellowship for 2024-2025
April 24, 2024
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Student Spotlight: Kenneth Zacher 
February 23, 2024
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Dawg Daze Digest: Planetarium Shows, Art Tours, Trivia, Information Sessions and more!
September 8, 2023
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Four Dean's Medalists, Working Toward Change
June 27, 2023
Kenna Fojas on the UW campus, holding a film camera to her face.
Making Films, Finding Community
May 31, 2023
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Student Spotlight: Emily Xu
May 30, 2023
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Student Spotlight: Kenna Fojas
May 22, 2023
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Alumni Spotlight: Lo Brown
February 22, 2023
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Graduate Student Spotlight: Anna Parkhurst
December 9, 2022
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Student Spotlight: Chloe Nolan
October 31, 2022
Two Ph.D. candidates accepted to LA Review of Books Publishing Workshop 
August 2, 2022
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Long Hoàng Trần selected to receive the Graduate School’s 2022 Distinguished Thesis Award
July 26, 2022
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Cinema and Media Studies graduates awarded the Dean’s Medal and Graduate Medal
June 29, 2022
Arts & Sciences' Fab Four for 2022
June 23, 2022
Seattle Asian American Film Festival: March 3-13
March 4, 2022
Piper Suzanne Coyner selected as 2020-21 Junior Medalist for High Scholarship
January 12, 2022
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Congratulations to the 2022-2023 Simpson Center Fellowship recipients! 
December 22, 2021
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Ellen Chang, Director of Arts and Culture Program at UW Taiwan Studies
October 22, 2021
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Alumni Spotlight: Long Hoàng Trần
October 5, 2021
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Sarah Choi Receives Writing Award from Society of Cinema & Media Studies
July 6, 2021
‘Ra Ra Rebel’ zine modernizes the '90s riot grrrl movement with its emphasis on inclusivity
June 14, 2021
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Congratulations to the Class of 2021!
June 11, 2021
‘Ra Ra Rebel’ zine modernizes the '90s riot grrrl movement with its emphasis on inclusivity
June 3, 2021
Collage of AAPI book covers and art work by faculty
Celebrating Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month
May 14, 2021
Faculty/staff honors: Guggenheim fellowship, Fulbright award, cybersecurity policy advocate
May 11, 2021
Animation through IVA
May 11, 2021
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Student Spotlight: Cynthia Li
April 27, 2021
ArtSci Roundup: Exhibitions at The Henry Art Gallery, From ‘Permit Patty’ to ‘Karen’: Black Rearticulations of Racial Humor, and More
April 21, 2021
Faculty/staff honors: Guggenheim fellowship, Fulbright award, cybersecurity policy advocate
April 14, 2021
Animation through IVA
April 8, 2021
Decentralizing art museums: The Henry’s museum guide internship spurs active community engagement
February 4, 2021
ArtSci Roundup: Patty Hayes – The COVID-19 Pandemic and the Impacts of Systemic Racism, Book Launch: Union by Law, and More
February 2, 2021
Decentralizing art museums: The Henry’s museum guide internship spurs active community engagement
February 1, 2021