Student Success

L to R - Top: Olivia Gunn, Marianne Stecher-Hansen, Inga Daraskiene; Bottom: Andrew Nestingen, Tapio Hokkanen, DUBS, Guntis Smidchens, Liga Miklasevica (not pictured: Lauren Poyer, Colin Conners, Amanda Doxtater)
2024 Graduation!
(June 7, 2024)
Helen Durst
Winner of this year's Nadia Christensen Award for Excellence in Nordic Studies
(May 6, 2024)
Mia Filardi
Mia Filardi, 2023 Graduate With A Finnish Major & Scandinavian Area Studies Minor, Awarded Fulbright!
(June 8, 2023)
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Husky Giving Day!
(April 20, 2023)
Spring Scholarship Breakfast program
Spring Scholarship Breakfast
(April 18, 2023)
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Nadia Christensen Award for Excellence in Nordic Studies is awarded to Karin Filipsson
(October 20, 2022)
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 Maxine Savage awarded the Chester Fritz International Research Fellowship for 2022-2023
(October 4, 2022)
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Announcing 2021-22 Graduate Student Awards
(June 30, 2022)
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Maxine Savage awarded the Arlene Hunter Scholarship for 2022-2023
(June 24, 2022)
Professors Lauren Poyer and Andy Meyer standing in seaweed, watching as students climb around on tidepool rocks. Photo taken on South Beach, San Juan Island.
Norwegian Retreat
(May 20, 2022)
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$60,000 Awarded in Scholarships in Spring 2022
(April 14, 2022)
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Ian Gwin receives Aurora Borealis Award 
(April 14, 2022)
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Internship opportunity at the Norwegian Embassy or Consulate!
(March 3, 2022)
Karin Filipsson
Karin Filipsson wins Marna Feldt Graduate Publication Award
(March 2, 2022)
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Karin Filipsson's translation of Brev till Mannen rights sold to Finnish and Korean publishing houses 
(November 10, 2021)
Connie Amundson
Connie Amundson Recognized with Nadia Christensen Award for Excellence in Nordic Studies for 2021-2022
(June 28, 2021)
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Alumna Megan Penhoet awarded as Global Swede of 2021
(June 19, 2021)
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Department Alumna Taylor Halverson awarded Jody Deering Nyquist Awards for Excellence In Undergraduate Research
(June 18, 2021)
Karin Filipsson
Karin Filipsson awarded 2021-22 Joff Hanauer for Excellence in Western Civilization Graduate Fellowship
(June 11, 2021)
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ArtSci Roundup: Exhibitions at The Henry Art Gallery, From ‘Permit Patty’ to ‘Karen’: Black Rearticulations of Racial Humor, and More
(April 21, 2021)
Karin Filipsson
Karin Filipsson awarded SASS 2021 Aurora Borealis Prize in Language and Literature
(April 18, 2021)
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Karin Filipsson publishes "They will change us forever" at the Henry Art Gallery 
(February 11, 2021)
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The Value of a Non-STEM Major, with Dean Stacey
(January 5, 2021)
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Six unique majors that may not be on your radar
(January 5, 2021)
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UW Student selected as first Queen Silvia Nursing Scholar in US
(December 23, 2020)
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Camille Witbeck Receives Nadia Christensen Award for Excellence in Nordic Study, 2020-2021
(December 16, 2020)
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ArtSci Roundup: Set in Motion, Drop-in Meditation Session, and More
(December 14, 2020)
Andy Meyer
LISTEN: Norwegian concept of frifluftsliv offers insight to coping with pandemic
(November 21, 2020)
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‘We belong out there’: How the Nordic concept of friluftsliv — outdoor life — could help the Pacific Northwest get through this COVID winter
(October 23, 2020)
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Department of Scandinavian Studies Solidarity and Policy Statement
(June 8, 2020)
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ArtSci Roundup: Earth Day with the Department of History, Colloquia Series lecture returns online, Ask Your Farmer, and more
(April 15, 2020)
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ArtsUW Roundup: a Valentine’s Day concert with Mark and Maggie O’Connor, Money can’t buy you HYGGE Presented by Kristian Næsby, and more
(February 6, 2020)
Andy, Ella, and Willa Nestingen
2019 Letter From the Chair
(December 13, 2019)
Baltic Studies 25th Anniversary
Baltic Studies Program celebrates 25th Anniversary
(December 11, 2019)
Ellen Rees
Ellen Rees - M.A., 1992, Ph.D., 1995
(October 2, 2019)
Sampo
The Myth of Sampo - an infinite source of fortune and greed
(October 1, 2019)
Pétur Valsson
Pétur Valsson receives Nadia Christensen Award for Excellence in Nordic Studies, 2019-20, for Lars von Trier research
(September 9, 2019)
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‘Seattle Freeze’: Forget making friends — half of Washington residents don’t even want to talk to you
(May 28, 2019)
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ARTSUW Roundup: Peruvian Textiles, This Moment, Innovation the Nordic Way, International Experimental Music Ensemble, MFA Concert, and more!
(May 8, 2019)
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University of Washington is a top producer of Fulbright recipients
(February 21, 2019)
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Sons of Norway Foundation Scholarships
(December 27, 2018)
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The Ibsen Society of America offers two student awards: apply in 2019!
(December 11, 2018)
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Faculty Friday: Lotta Gavel Adams
(December 7, 2018)
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Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Trolls
(December 5, 2018)
Kim Kraft
New Undergraduate Adviser Kim Kraft
(October 23, 2018)
Jan Nielsen and members of his supervisory committee.
Jan Krogh Nielsen Advanced to Ph.D. Candidacy
(February 21, 2018)
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Inspired by Learning
(October 26, 2017)
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Swedish Major Elena Donaldson Awarded 2017 Dean's Medal in the Humanities
(June 13, 2017)
Mimi Nielsen
Mimi Nielsen awarded SWEA San Francisco Scholarship
(May 17, 2017)
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Undergraduate Danish minor Gabriela Capestany discusses Hygge for KCTS9
(February 17, 2017)