Makeability Lab Awards

Student Awards

2023

Paul G. Allen School First-Year PhD Fellowship.

UW Allen School of Computer Science

Arnavi Chheda-Kothary

2020

Naomi Bashkansky Selected as Coolidge Scholarship Senator

Calvin Coolidge Presidential Fund

Naomi Bashkansky

Over 3,400 students from across America submitted high-quality applications to this year’s competition. We are writing to let you know that you have earned the distinction of “Coolidge Senator.” This is a high honor. Only 100 candidates to this year’s scholarship competition have been named Coolidge Senators.

2020

Manaswi Saha Earns Google PhD Fellowship

Google

Manaswi Saha

We are delighted to inform you that we have chosen to award Manaswi Saha the 2020 Google Fellowship in Human Computer Interaction and secondary areas in Assistive Technologies and AI for Social Good for her work on Project Sidewalk. The student nominations we received were exemplary in their quality, but Manaswi especially stood out and was endorsed by the research scientists and distinguished engineers within Google who participated in the review

2014

Kotaro Hara Awarded Google PhD Fellowship in Accessibility

Google

Kotaro Hara

"We are delighted to inform you that we have chosen to award Kotaro Hara the 2014 Google PhD Fellowship in Accessibility. The student nominations we received were exemplary in their quality, but you especially stood out and were endorsed by the research scientists and distinguished engineers within Google who participated in the reviews." Ultimately, Kotaro had to decline this Fellowship because he had already received the IBM PhD Fellowship

2012

Graduate School Distinguished Dissertation Award

University of Washington

Jon E. Froehlich

2012

CGS/ProQuest Distinguished Dissertation Award — Honorable Mention

Council of Graduate Schools / ProQuest

Jon E. Froehlich

In Mathematics, Physical Sciences, and Engineering.

2009

Precourt Center Fellow

Behavior, Energy and Climate Change Conference (BECC)

Jon E. Froehlich

2008

Microsoft Research Graduate Fellowship

Microsoft Research

Jon E. Froehlich

Faculty Honors

2021

College of Engineering Outstanding Faculty Member Award

UW College of Engineering

Jon E. Froehlich

Awarded for “making outstanding contributions during the extraordinary challenges of 2020" and for "for his innovative and creative approaches to supporting remote learning and research during the pandemic — and for going above and beyond, in big and small ways, to support his community during this time."

2020

Google Faculty Research Award

Google

Jennifer Mankoff, Jon E. Froehlich

For “Transforming How Blind and Low Vision Developers Design and Implement User Interfaces.”

2017

Sloan Research Fellowship

Sloan

Jon E. Froehlich

It is my great pleasure to inform you that you have been selected as a 2017 Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellow in Computer Science. As you know, the Sloan Research Fellowships are extraordinarily competitive awards involving nominations for most of the very best scientists of your generation from the United States and Canada. I hope your selection from this remarkable group of nominees will give you particular personal satisfaction and convey a clear indication of the high esteem in which your past work and future potential are held by your fellow scholars.

2013

Inventors in our Midst

1st DC-area Maker Faire

Jon E. Froehlich

One of four recognized at the inaugural DC-area Maker Faire.

2013

3M Non-Tenured Faculty Award

3M

Jon E. Froehlich

Using Machine Learning and Intelligent Sensing to Promote Activity Awareness and Modification.

Project Awards

2016

Facilitators’ Choice Award, NSF STEM Video Showcase

NSF STEM for All Video Showcase

BodyVis

Awarded to 13 of 156 video submissions (8.3%).

2009

Madrona Prize for Research Excellence and Commercial Appeal

Madrona Venture Group

2009

1st Place, UW Environmental Innovation Challenge

University of Washington

HydroSense won first place and $10,000 in the inaugural UW Environmental Innovation Challenge on April 1, 2009. The team won "for their practical solution of tracking water usage in the home. When attached to a faucet, the HydroSense product can calculate real-time water flow, infer the specific source of use such as the toilet, shower, etc., and, detect leaks."

Best Paper Awards (16)

Other Paper Awards (12)