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Gifts to the Department of Communication provide resources to develop and create programs that are not covered by state funding. Gifts to the department support a wide range of needs including: student research activities, annual lectures, curriculum development, faculty retention, and publication of our department newsletter. All gifts are tax-deductible and truly make a difference.
Ways to Give
Make a gift online
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Don Pember Scholarship
The Don Pember Journalism Scholarship supports scholarships for journalism students, with preference for community college transfer students or journalism students with a strong interest in media law.
Don joined the University of Washington faculty in 1969 and served as a mentor to many undergraduate and graduate students. He received the UW's prestigious Distinguished Teaching Award in 1973 and was recognized two years later for excellence in teaching by the Carnegie Foundation. His path-breaking work on privacy led to Privacy and the Press (1979) and he has been a significant leader in mass communication through two popular textbooks. There were six editions of Mass Media and America and, as of the summer of 2007, Don is working on the 16th edition of his highly regarded Mass Media Law.
Don has always cared greatly about providing educational opportunity for students from modest economic backgrounds. With the Don Pember Journalism Scholarship, we can both honor Don's wonderful career and provide for deserving students.
Send a check
Make checks payable to the University of Washington, with a note indicating the fund you wish to support. Mail payments to:
University of Washington
Department of Communication
Box 353740
Seattle, WA 98195-3740.
Call toll-free and use a credit card
Call 1-877-UW-GIFTS (877-894-4387)
and specify which fund or program you wish to support.
Contact Carolyn Black,
Director of Development, College of Arts and Sciences, at (206) 685-3863 or cablack@uw.edu for customized giving options.
Your Donations at Work
2008-2009 Flip Wilson Scholarship Essay
Camille Elmore, winner of the 2008-09 Flip Wilson Scholarship, is a senior at the University of Washington pursuing two Bachelor of Arts degrees in Communication and Comparative History of Ideas.
Camille is working on her honors senior thesis, which investigates analyzing discourse on mixed-race blackness in the media, more specifically, the political and racial identity of President Barack Obama. Last spring, Camille spent the quarter studying issues of racial hybridity and identity politics in five different cities of Brazil.
In 2007, Camille spent a quarter in Cape Town, South Africa studying and exploring themes of freedom, liberation, apartheid and community engagement.
Camille is the 2008 recipient of the Jody Deering Nyquist Awards for Excellence in Undergraduate Research in Rhetoric and Critical Studies for her essay on the production of domesticity performed by black queer men.
She is also the 2008 recipient of the International Program and Exchanges scholarship for studying abroad in the country of her choice. On campus, Camille is involved in numerous organizations including the Race/Knowledge Project for graduate students, Communication Diversity Community, Rethinking CHID 390 Project, and the Anti-racist Pedagogy group.
Camille is very passionate about teaching and the field of education and aspires to obtain a Ph.D. in American Studies (with a major emphasis on Black Cultural Studies) at a major research institution. After receiving her Ph.D., Camille aspires to be a university professor in the field.
Past winners:
Amara Russell, 2007
Saran Nason, 2004
Olivia Coombes, 2005
Leoule Goshu, 2006
Department of Communication Scholarships
Read about the 2008 Department of Communication Scholarship Ceremony>>
Featured Alumnus(a)
David Horsey talks about his time as an editor for The Daily and as a UW student. Watch the video at the UW Foundation web site >>
The Journalism Foreign Intrigue Scholarship
A photo taken by Karen Johnson (a 2006 scholarship recipient) during her time in Cambodia.
This program was established by a UW Journalism alum, and provides financial support for a journalism student to work as a intern reporter at a foreign newspaper and to travel after the internship. The donor's goal is to give journalism students an exposure to another culture and a more thorough understanding of journalism and culture.
Read more about the interns on their travel blogs >>
The Deborah Noel Kaplan Endowed Fund
"Giving Voice to the Voiceless"
The Family of Deborah Noel Kaplan has endowed a memorial fund in her honor at the Department of Communication, University of Washington:
“To support narrative journalism and graduate student research on social issues, with preference for field research”
Her fund is open to contributions from others. Please make checks payable to "University of Washington Foundation" and note in the Memo section "Deborah Noel Kaplan Endowed Fund." Please send checks to:
Victoria Sprang
Development Director
University of Washington
Department of Communication
Box 353740
Seattle, WA 98195
(All contributions will be acknowledged and are eligible as a tax deduction)
