Gratitude to the University of Washington faculty.

Thank you for teaching proteins to be designed from scratch, a 2024 Nobel that turns computation into new medicines and vaccines.

Thank you for finding BRCA1 and proving inherited breast cancer is real, then using DNA to reunite families and defend human rights.

Thank you for pioneering exome sequencing and single-cell methods that let us read a genome, and a life, cell by cell.

Thank you for mapping the most complex, repetitive corners of the human genome and linking them to autism and human evolution.

Thank you for inventing the yeast two-hybrid method, giving biology a way to watch proteins find their partners.

Thank you for helping deliver the Human Genome Project and building UW Genome Sciences into one of the world's best.

Thank you for the yeast artificial chromosome and the clone-by-clone strategy that made the human genome possible.

A physician-engineer and National Academy of Engineering member, she leads the College of Engineering while her own lab pioneers tools for studying single cells, proof that a dean can still be a builder.

Thank you for turning everyday sensors and phones into low-cost health tools, a MacArthur-honored gift to accessible medicine.

Thank you for elegant algorithms, online and probabilistic, and for teaching theory with real warmth and clarity.

Thank you for foundational work on databases and probabilistic data that helps the world query messy information honestly.

Thank you for open machine-learning systems and for storing data in DNA, bridging computing and biology with joy.

His lab engineers flat, mass-producible optical chips and metalenses that shrink cameras and computing onto a wafer, patient nanoscale work with a real shot at reshaping how devices see.

She chairs the Boeing department while advancing guidance and control for underwater, air, and space systems, including bio-inspired vehicles, leading a field she has also helped open to more engineers.

Directing the Precision Controls Laboratory, he refines iterative control for everything from aircraft assembly to human-machine interaction, the kind of exacting work that makes machines move just right.

A founding figure in modern biomaterials, he engineers surfaces that the body accepts rather than rejects, work honored with the UW Medicine Lifetime Innovator Award and felt by patients everywhere.

His lab has spent decades making low-cost, point-of-care diagnostics from paper and microfluidics, bringing lab-grade testing to the places in the world that need it most.

Thank you for five decades building UW computer science into a world it is proud of, and for mentoring generations with generosity.

Thank you for uniting logic and probability in machine learning and for making The Master Algorithm approachable to all.

A former department chair whose work spanned vibration, medical devices, and wave energy, he helped connect UW engineering to real-world industry and clean-energy problems worth solving.

Thank you for precision experiments on gravity and for nanopore sensing that reads DNA one base at a time.

Thank you for discovering new physics in atom-thin materials, from 2D magnets to quantum light.

Thank you for advancing quantum dots and luminescent materials that turn sunlight and light into cleaner energy.

Thank you for building the quantum chemistry theories and code that let us simulate how molecules absorb and move light.

Thank you for revealing how lipid membranes organize themselves, the soft physics at the edge of every living cell.

Thank you for decoding how plants sense and grow, and for programming those circuits to help small farmers thrive.

Thank you for illuminating how bats evolved and for opening museum collections to everyone through your curatorial care.

Thank you for weighing gravity with exquisite torsion balances and holding Einstein's ideas to the finest test.

Thank you for co-founding the Eot-Wash group and probing the deepest questions about gravity with beautiful precision.

Thank you for exploring hydrothermal vents and the Lost City, and for wiring the seafloor so anyone can watch a living ocean.

Thank you for finding life in the coldest, deepest places on Earth and expanding what we think life can survive.

As the 34th president of the UW, he leads one of the world's great public research universities with a plant scientist's patience and a first-generation student's belief that access and excellence belong together.

A working biochemist who studies protein folding, she serves as the UW's chief academic officer while keeping a scientist's eye on how teaching and research actually get done.

A pioneer of context-aware computing, he leads the iSchool with a conviction that information should serve people, keeping the human at the center of every system.

Known to students as Coach, this award-winning accounting scholar leads Foster with the same care for people that made his own classroom a place students never forgot.

A UW alum who came home to teach, he bridges dynamical systems, machine learning, and control, and his open teaching and books have helped a generation learn data-driven science.

His discoveries about newborn imitation rewrote our understanding of how babies learn, a lifetime of careful developmental science recognized with the William James Fellow Award.

Her research on how infants crack the code of language and the critical period for learning has shaped early education worldwide, science told with rare warmth and clarity.

He studies central banks and public health policy with careful statistical craft, and his book on the myth of central-bank neutrality shows how rigorous method serves honest questions.

A member of the Snohomish Nation, his award-winning book The Sea Is My Country recovered the maritime world of the Makahs, and he directs the Center for the Study of the Pacific Northwest with deep care for place and people.

A novelist and longtime champion of Asian American letters, he has taught and led creative writing at the UW since 1984, opening doors for writers whose stories had gone untold.

A leading econometrician of financial time series, he chairs the Economics department and has mentored countless students through the math of markets with generosity and clarity.

His decades of observing real couples turned the study of relationships into a science, and his findings on what makes marriages last have helped families the world over.

A philosopher of science whose work on evidence, objectivity, and feminist epistemology reshaped how archaeologists reason, she models scholarship that is both rigorous and deeply humane.

The first in her department elected to the National Academy of Sciences, she built enduring insight into why people consent to be governed and led the Harry Bridges Center for Labor Studies with real conviction.