{"id":50,"date":"2015-11-03T17:26:34","date_gmt":"2015-11-04T01:26:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/tla-wp\/?page_id=7"},"modified":"2026-07-24T13:52:04","modified_gmt":"2026-07-24T20:52:04","slug":"home","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/hr.uw.edu\/thorud\/","title":{"rendered":"David Thorud Leadership Award"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"home\">\n<div class=\"container\">\n<div class=\"row criteria\">\n<div class=\"col-md-12\">\n<div class=\"announcement\">\n<div style=\"align-items: center;\">\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/hr.uw.edu\/thorud\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2026\/06\/nomination_tips_icon.png\" alt=\"nomination criteria icon\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"wrap\"><strong>Recognizing outstanding leadership since 2006, the Thorud Leadership Award is the highest leadership honor at the University of Washington.<\/strong><\/div>\n<div>&nbsp;<\/div>\n<p><a class=\"uw-btn\" href=\"https:\/\/hr.uw.edu\/thorud\/recipients\/\">View 2025 David Thorud Leadership Award Recipients<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<hr \/>\n<div class=\"container\">\n<div class=\"row thorud\">\n<div class=\"col-md-12\">\n<div class=\"david\">\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/hr.uw.edu\/thorud\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2026\/07\/thorud_200.jpg\" alt=\"Photo of David B. Thorud\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"wrap\">\n<h2>David B. Thorud<\/h2>\n<p>The Thorud Award honors the long and varied service of its namesake. David Thorud came to the UW in 1981 as dean of the College of Forest Resources, but then stepped into other key leadership positions when the need arose, including director of Government Relations, acting vice president of University Relations, special assistant to the president, and acting provost. Despite retiring in 2000, Thorud remains active in the UW community as dean emeritus.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recognizing outstanding leadership since 2006, the Thorud Leadership Award is the highest leadership honor at the University of Washington. &nbsp; View 2025 David Thorud Leadership Award Recipients David B. Thorud The Thorud Award honors the long and varied service of its namesake. David Thorud came to the UW in 1981 as dean of the College of Forest Resources, but then stepped into other key leadership positions when the need arose, including director of Government Relations, acting vice president of University&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":756,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"templates\/template-big-hero.php","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_lmt_disableupdate":"no","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"class_list":["post-50","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hr.uw.edu\/thorud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/50","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hr.uw.edu\/thorud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hr.uw.edu\/thorud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hr.uw.edu\/thorud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hr.uw.edu\/thorud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50"}],"version-history":[{"count":30,"href":"https:\/\/hr.uw.edu\/thorud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/50\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1362,"href":"https:\/\/hr.uw.edu\/thorud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/50\/revisions\/1362"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hr.uw.edu\/thorud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/756"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hr.uw.edu\/thorud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hr.uw.edu\/thorud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}