The 2025 Laboratory Safety Awards & Innovations Event will be held at the HUB on December 9, 2025, 1-2 p.m.
All members of the UW research community are welcome to attend. RSVP by December 5.
Guest speakers include Provost Tricia Serio, Phillip Cox, Program Manager for the Washington Clean Energy Testbeds, David Giblin, Herbarium Collections Manager for the Burke Museum, and Tasha Ritchie, Laboratory Safety Coordinator for the School of Pharmacy.
Please join us in congratulating our 2025 awards recipients and innovators!
Top Dawgs in Safety
Departments with top safety ratings in their school or college and a record of engagement with EH&S on safety issues:
- Burke Museum, College of Arts & Sciences
- Friday Harbor Laboratories, College of the Environment
- Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering, College of Engineering
- Department of Global Health, School of Public Health
- Electronic & Photonic Systems, Applied Physics Laboratory
- Department of Medicine, School of Medicine
- Department of Radiation Oncology, School of Medicine
Pack Leaders in Safety
Responsible Parties with strong safety practices and a record of engagement with EH&S on safety issues:
- Jonathan An, Assistant Professor, Department of Oral Health Sciences, School of Dentistry
- Michael Dodd, Professor, Civil & Environmental Engineering, College of Engineering
- Sharon Doty, Professor, School of Environmental & Forest Sciences, College of the Environment
- Allison Gardell, Assistant Professor, Sciences and Mathematics Division of School of Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences, UW Tacoma
- Dan Jaffe, Professor, Physical Sciences Division of Science, Technology, Engineering & Mathematics, UW Bothell
- Francis Kim, Professor, Division of Cardiology, School of Medicine
- Julie Mathieu, Associate Professor, Director of the Ellison Stem Cell Core, Department of Comparative Medicine, School of Medicine
- Anuscheh Nawaz, Principal Research Scientist and Engineer, Ocean Engineering, Applied Physics Laboratory
- Sarah Tuttle, Associate Professor, Department of Astronomy, College of Arts and Sciences
Partners in Safety
Individuals making a lasting impact on safety culture in their roles to support labs or research groups:
- David Giblin, Burke Museum Herbarium Collections Manager, Burke Museum, College of Arts and Sciences
- Matt Gray, Facilities Coordinator, School of Environmental and Forest Sciences, College of the Environment
- Jennifer McKee-Johnson, Lab Manager, and the Sciences and Mathematics (SAM) Laboratory Team, UW Tacoma
- Daniel Ratner, Associate Dean, Academic Affairs, College of Engineering
- Cheryl Greengrove, Associate Vice Chancellor for Research, and the UW Tacoma Power Outage Response Team, UW Tacoma
Lab Safety Innovators
Information about the safety tools, best practices, and processes developed by our innovators will be shared on posters displayed at the event.
- David Bergsman lab, Chemical Engineering
- Jennifer Cabarrus, School of Interdisciplinary Arts & Sciences, UW Bothell
- Eric Camp, Department of Chemistry, College of Arts and Sciences
- Cole DeForest lab, Chemical Engineering
- Brian Flinn lab, Materials Science & Engineering
- Soo-Hyung Kim lab, School of Environmental and Forest Sciences
- Marissa Kranz team, UW Medical Center Cyclotron Facility
- Lih Lin lab, Electrical & Computer Engineering
- Maureen Neitz lab, Department of Ophthalmology
- Andy Nutzhorn, School of Aquatic and Fishery Sciences
- Shane Patrick, Washington Nanofabrication Facility
- Peter Pauzauskie lab, Materials Science & Engineering
- Michael Pomfret lab, Washington Clean Energy Testbeds
- Julie Rorrer lab, Chemical Engineering
- Georg Seelig lab, Electrical & Computer Engineering
- Marjorie Wonham, Friday Harbor Laboratories
- Mark Wurfel lab, Department of Medicine
