UW Bioengineering is proud of all our faculty, staff and students, and the many awards they earn for their work in teaching, mentoring and improving lives through bioengineering research and innovations.
Faculty Award Highlights
- 29 American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE) Fellows
- 13 members of the Washington State Academy of Sciences
- 14 past and current UW CoMotion Presidential Innovation Fellows
- Six members of the National Academy of Engineering (NAE)
- Six AAAS Fellows
- Five National Academy of Inventors Fellows
Student Award Highlights
- 18 current National Science Foundation Fellows
- Four Fulbright Student Fellows, one Gates Cambridge Scholar, one Rhodes Scholar, one Luce Scholar, and nine Goldwater Scholars as of 2020
- 8 Levinson Emerging Scholar awards
- Multiple awards from NASA Space Grant
- Multiple awards in business plan competitions from UW Foster School of Business
- Fellowships from American Heart Association and Washington Research Foundation
- More Amgen Scholars than any other UW department; 31 since 2007
- Over 400 Mary Gates Scholarships
Featured Awards and Recognition
Lawrence Crum receives Acoustical Society of America Gold Medal
UW Bioengineering professor Dr. Lawrence Crum received the highest award offered by the Acoustical Society of America, Gold Medal.
Ruikang Wang elected SPIE Fellow
UW Bioengineering professor Dr. Ruikang (Ricky) Wang has been elected as a SPIE Fellow. Dr. Wang, who is known for investigating the properties of light, biotissue, and their interactions and pioneering biomedical optical imaging applications, [...]
UW Bioengineering students receive “Best Innovation Idea” award at 2013 UW Business Plan Competition
UW Bioengineering PhD students Karen Eaton (from Dr. Marta Scatena's lab) and Renuka Ramanathan (from Dr. Kim Woodrow's lab) were among participants of a team which received the "Best Innovation Idea" award, as well as [...]
Herbert Sauro and Pavel Zrazhevskiy Receive UW College of Engineering Community of Innovators Awards
UW Bioengineering associate professor Dr. Herbert Sauro and senior fellow Dr. Pavel Zrazhevskiy received 2013 UW College of Engineering Community of Innovators Awards. Dr. Sauro, who received the Faculty Innovator Award for Teaching and Learning, [...]
Kim Woodrow named on Newsweek/The Daily Beast’s 125 Women of Impact List
UW Bioengineering assistant professor Dr. Kim Woodrow's was named on this list, compiled by Newsweek/The Daily Beast to accompany the recent Women in the World Summit. Dr. Woodrow was cited for her work creating dissolvable [...]
Joan Sanders awarded best presentation on prosthetics research
UW Bioengineering professor Dr. Joan Sanders was awarded best presentation for the Thranhardt Lecture Series at the American Academy of Orthotists and Prosthetists annual meeting on February 21 in Orlando, Florida. Dr. Sanders presented her [...]