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Professor Magdalena Balazinska elected to the Washington State Academy of Sciences
Professor Magdalena Balazinska elected to the Washington State Academy of Sciences
Professor Amy Zhang named Sloan Research Fellow

Allen School partners with Ai2 on $152M project to advance open AI for science
Allen School partners with Ai2 on $152M project to advance open AI for science

The Open Multimodal AI Infrastructure to Accelerate Science (OMAI) project will accelerate scientific discovery and advance the science of AI itself, with support from the U.S. National Science Foundation and NVIDIA.

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Walk this way: Data links physical activity and the built environment
Walk this way: Data links physical activity and the built environment

In a countrywide study published in Nature, Allen School professor Tim Althoff found the strongest evidence yet that daily step count is influenced by a community’s walkability.

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Andre Ye earns 2025 Dean's Medal in the Social Sciences
Andre Ye earns 2025 Dean's Medal in the Social Sciences

Ye, who graduated in June with degrees in computer science and philosophy, was recognized by the UW College of Arts & Sciences for his campus leadership and interdisciplinary research contributions.

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Professor Magdalena Balazinska elected to the Washington State Academy of Sciences
Professor Magdalena Balazinska elected to the Washington State Academy of Sciences

Balazinska, who is Director of the Allen School, was recognized by her peers for her contributions in data management and data science research and education.

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Alum Nicki Dell (Ph.D.,’15) receives Alumni Impact Award
Alum Nicki Dell (Ph.D.,’15) receives Alumni Impact Award

The Allen School honored Dell, a professor at Cornell Tech, for her work on technologies to address the needs of overlooked communities, including people experiencing intimate partner violence and home health care workers.

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Allen School team receives UW Distinguished Teaching Award
Allen School team receives UW Distinguished Teaching Award

Faculty behind the redesign of the introduction to programming course series were recognized as part of the 2025 Awards of Excellence, one of the University's highest honors.

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Allen School Ph.D. graduates honored with ACM Doctoral Dissertation Awards
Allen School Ph.D. graduates honored with ACM Doctoral Dissertation Awards

Ashish Sharma won the 2024 award for leveraging AI to improve mental health, while Sewon Min received an honorable mention for developing more efficient, flexible language models.

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Alum Ewin Tang (Ph.D., ‘23) wins Breakthrough Prize in mathematics
Alum Ewin Tang (Ph.D., ‘23) wins Breakthrough Prize in mathematics

Tang, a postdoc at University of California, Berkeley and former student in the Allen School’s Theory of Computation group, received the 2025 Maryam Mirzakhani New Frontiers Prize for her work in quantum computing.

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Allen School launches new Graduate Certificate in Modern AI Methods
Allen School launches new Graduate Certificate in Modern AI Methods

This stackable certificate is designed to help professionals in a wide range of fields to understand and leverage the latest artificial intelligence and machine learning techniques as part of their work.

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