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.
Online credit card gifts for the Department of Communication can be made through the University of Washington's secure server.
read more about the Don Pember Scholarship...
read more about the Athens Program...
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 1-877-UW-GIFTS (877-894-4387)
and specify which fund or program you wish to support.
Director of Development, College of Arts and Sciences, at (206) 685-3863 or cablack@u.washington.edu for customized giving options.
Amara Russell is the winner of the 2007-08 Flip Wilson Scholarship. Russell is a senior majoring in Journalism, with a minor in Law, Society and Justice. She was born and raised in Los Angeles, but has enjoyed living in Seattle for the past three years while studying at the UW. She is an intern at KIRO Newsradio and is interning for KOMO's talk show Northwest Afternoon both Winter and Spring quarters. She wants to pursue a career in television production so that she can help change the stereotypical portrayals of minorities in the media. She writes that she "is honored to be a recipient of the 2007 Flip Wilson Scholarship and believes that he was a trailblazer in the advancement of people of color in the entertainment industry."
Past Essays:
Read about the 2007 Departement of Communication Scholarship Ceremony on the departmental Web site...
David Horsey talks about his time as an editor for the Daily and as a UW student.
Watch the video at the UW Foundation website!
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.
In 2008 - scholarship recipients are interning at three newspapers: Keith Vance at the Cambodian Daily, Meg Peters at Beijing's China Daily, and Yu Nakayama at the AWOKO newspaper in Sierra Leone.
Read more about the interns on their travel blogs:
Keith Vance at Cambodian Daily
Meg Peters at China Daily in Beijing
Yu Nakayama at Awoko, in Freetown, Sierra Leone
On November 29, 2006, members of our community gathered to celebrate the memory of Professor Deborah Kaplan. Collected here are the words of her colleagues and friends, as well as a record of her scholarly work and the Seattle PI article on her passing.
"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)
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