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The University of Washington Children’s Center at Portage Bay is set to open on campus in early January 2017, providing child care services to 140 children and their families.

Earlier this week, UW employees, local children and government officials celebrated this new resource for faculty, staff and students with a ribbon-cutting ceremony and remarks from UW Provost Jerry Baldasty.

The UW Children’s Center at Portage Bay is part of the University’s child care access initiative, which seeks to double child care capacity on or near campus over the next five to eight years.

“Through this initiative, we’re growing the UW’s capacity for child care, making campus more family-friendly, increasing the choices for parents and caregivers, and establishing donor funds in support of best-in-class care,” said Amy Hawkins, director of WorkLife and Childcare Development at the UW.

The center is located in a newly remodeled campus building on 3745 15th Ave. N.E. It’s the first child care facility to open at the University in more than 17 years and will add to the UW’s four existing centers, which serve 267 children.

Each day, you contribute to the learning and growth that are integral to every UW student’s Husky Experience, and you see firsthand how transformational that experience really is. Your work as teachers, mentors, supporters and advocates is inspiring. In fact, it inspired the creation of the Faculty Staff Retiree Endowment Matching Program.

Tuesday is National Philanthropy Day, which offers a chance to highlight this matching program, launched in celebration of the University’s most ambitious philanthropic campaign. It was created to honor our wonderful faculty, staff and retirees for their commitment to students. The program commits $5 million to matching any gift by current and former University employees to endowed scholarships and graduate fellowships at a 50 percent rate on gifts up to $250,000.

Many of you are already generous supporters of student scholarships and this matching program is our opportunity to amplify and honor your generous contributions. Your support makes a real difference in the lives of individual students and far beyond, creating opportunities for study abroad, public service internships, leadership opportunities, and educational and cultural experiences that open doors and broaden horizons for thousands of UW students. With this matching program, we aim to make your giving even more powerful.

The 50 percent match applies to gifts through June 2020 that support either pre-existing or newly created endowments to support student scholarships and fellowships. To learn more visit https://www.washington.edu/giving/fsrmatch/

The University of Washington has announced this year’s Awards of Excellence recipients being recognized for achievements in teaching, mentoring, public service and staff support.

The winners will be honored at 3:30 p.m. June 9 at a ceremony in Meany Hall for the campus and general public.

Distinguished Staff Award
Sabine Aboltina, hospital assistant, Harborview Medical Center
Magdalena Fonseca, associate director, Office of Minority Affairs & Diversity
David Peterson, engineering technician, Center for Experimental Nuclear Physics and Astrophysics
Barbara Purington, administrator, applied physics

ICD-10 Program Team, UW Medicine:

• Sally Beahan, director, health information management
• Carol Garsi, coding manager
• Sarah Lucas, program director
• Rebecca Revand, project manager

David B. Thorud Leadership Award
Faculty award: Dr. Norman Beauchamp, professor and chair, radiology, School of Medicine
Staff award: Steven Hiller, director of planning and assessment, University Libraries

Distinguished Librarian Award
Cassandra Hartnett, U.S. documents librarian and gender, women & sexuality studies librarian, University Libraries

Alumni Association Distinguished Service Award
Greg Sheridan, senior associate vice president, University Advancement

Distinguished Retiree Excellence in Community Service Award
Sandra Adams Motzer, associate professor emeritus, School of Nursing

Distinguished Teaching Award
Nyan-Ping Bi, senior lecturer, Asian languages and literature
Cole DeForest, assistant professor, chemical engineering
Wendy Thomas, associate professor, bioengineering
Catherine Connors, professor and chair, classics
Linda Martin-Morris, principal lecturer, biology
Janelle Silva, assistant professor, interdisciplinary arts & sciences, UW Bothell
Yan Bai, associate professor, Institute of Technology, UW Tacoma

Distinguished Teaching Award for Innovation with Technology
David Masuda, lecturer, biomedical informatics and medical education

Excellence in Teaching Award
Jonathan Rosenberg, teaching assistant, philosophy
Jorge Tomasevic, teaching assistant, environmental and forest sciences

Distinguished Contributions to Lifelong Learning Award
Joe P. Mahoney, professor, civil and environmental engineering

University Faculty Lecture Award
Ray Hilborn, professor, aquatic and fishery sciences

Marsha L. Landolt Distinguished Graduate Mentor Award
Sandra Silberstein, professor, English

Distinguished Alumni Veteran Award
Colonel Margarethe Cammermeyer

Outstanding Public Service
Augustine McCaffery, senior academic program specialist, academic affairs and planning

Alumna Summa Laude Dignata
The Honorable Sally Jewell

We are all deeply saddened and alarmed by the recent active shooter incidents in San Bernardino, CA, Colorado Springs, CO and Roseburg, OR, among many others across the country. While we believe the chances of serious violence at UW can be reduced through use of UW SafeCampus resources, we know that prevention efforts can never be 100% effective and that it is worthwhile to prepare for the unlikely, but dangerous, situation of an active shooter event here. There are a number of resources available to help you prepare, both individually and as a workgroup.

• In-person training: “Response to Active Shooter” training conducted by UWPD and SafeCampus (general session schedule to be announced in January, 2016).
• Email SafeCampus to join a list to learn about when active shooter training sessions are occurring or to discuss having a session scheduled for your department.
• Online training videos: Three “Shots Fired” streaming videos oriented to the work, academic and health care environments are available via a UWNetID on the SafeCampus training resources
• Workplace security plan consultation and physical security assessment: For an assessment of your workplace environment or security consultation, contact UWPD’s Mike Sletten slettm@uw.edu.
• Guides: The UWPD’s Active Shooter-Campus Emergency Procedures and Workplace Security Plan
• Additional resources: Department of Homeland Security resources, including
  • Run, Hide, Fight video
  • Active Shooter pocket card
  • Federal Emergency Management online training IS-907: Active Shooter: What You Can Do.

While preparing yourself and your workplace to respond to such a situation can be confidence-building, it’s stressful to think about such an event happening to you. UW CareLink, our faculty and staff assistance program, is available to help you manage this and other types of work or personal stress you may be experiencing.

Each spring, the University of Washington can count on a flurry of visitors and tourists from around the world, but you might have noticed the additional increase of wide-eyed high school students taking photos and excitedly exploring campus. Throughout April, thousands of newly admitted Huskies and their families will come from near and far to attend a UW spring tradition: Admitted Student Previews.

“Students and families are here to learn if the UW fits them, and helping visitors feel welcome with a smile, an acknowledgment or by offering directions makes the UW much more personal and less institutional. We can demonstrate that we truly want these future Huskies to join our community.”

— Joyce Palmer, Office of Admissions

With more than two dozen events ranging from residential life tours to departmental drop-in sessions, Admitted Student Previews give recently accepted students a glimpse of what the next four years could look like, as well as a head start on making personal connections with the UW In addition to scheduled events, attendees also have free time to explore parts of the University that interest them most, from iconic sights like the Sylvan Theater Columns to buildings that house potential areas of study.

Beyond presenting the boundless opportunities and resources available at the UW, Admitted Student Previews “can be one of the most influential factors for prospective students in their decision to enroll here,” says Joyce Palmer, assistant director at the UW Office of Admissions. While 70 percent of last year’s attendees decided to enroll at the UW, Joyce has high hopes that the number of attendees returning for fall quarter will increase this year.

Of course, the opportunity to raise that percentage would not be possible without the efforts of the students, faculty and staff working at the events. Joyce adds that all faculty and staff can help provide an outstanding Husky experience for the attendees. “Students and families are here to learn if the UW fits them, and helping visitors feel welcome with a smile, an acknowledgment or by offering directions makes the UW much more personal and less institutional,” she says. “We can demonstrate that we truly want these future Huskies to join our community.”

#NewHuskies2015

Check out students’ social media posts and photos from Admitted Student Previews on the New Huskies Tagboard. Faculty and staff are also invited to welcome students by posting to the Tagboard using the hashtag.

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For more information about Admitted Student Previews, contact Joyce Palmer at jlp11@uw.edu.

The University of Washington has announced this year’s Awards of Excellence recipients being recognized for achievements in teaching, mentoring, public service and staff support.

The winners will be honored at 3:30 p.m. June 11 at a ceremony in Meany Hall for the campus and general public.

Distinguished Staff Award
Ross Braine, tribal liaison, Office of Minority Affairs & Diversity
Carolyn Chow, director of admissions and multicultural student affairs, School of Nursing
Kathryn Folk-Way, associate director, creative communications
Irawati Lam, registered nurse, radiation oncology
Stephen Weber, access services supervisor, Odegaard Undergraduate Library

David B. Thorud Leadership Award
Faculty award: Edward D. Lazowska, Bill & Melinda Gates Chair, computer science & engineering

Staff award: Chance Reschke, director of research computing, UW-IT

Distinguished Librarian Award
Steven Shadle, serials access librarian, cataloging and metadata services

Alumni Association Distinguished Service Award
Susan W. Williams

Distinguished Retiree Excellence in Community Service Award
Alvin Kwiram, emeritus professor & emeritus vice provost for research, chemistry

Distinguished Teaching Award
Oleta Beard, senior lecturer, marketing and international business
Jerry F. Franklin, professor, environmental and forest sciences
Chris Laws, senior lecturer, astronomy
Taryn Lindhorst, associate professor, social work
Emily Pahnke, assistant professor, management and organization
Wayne Au, associate professor, educational studies, UW Bothell
Ellen Moore, Lecturer, communication, UW Tacoma

Distinguished Teaching Award for Innovation with Technology
Andrew Boydston, assistant professor, chemistry
Jasmine Bryant, lecturer, chemistry
Colleen Craig, lecturer, chemistry
Stefan Stoll, assistant professor, chemistry

Excellence in Teaching Award
Matthew Junge, graduate student, mathematics
Kate Napolitan, graduate student, education

Distinguished Contributions to Lifelong Learning Award
Ann Downer, associate professor, global health

University Faculty Lecture Award
Donald K. Grayson, professor, anthropology

Marsha L. Landolt Distinguished Graduate Mentor Award
Daniel T. Schwartz, professor, chemical engineering

Distinguished Alumni Veteran Award
Richard Howard Layton, M.D.

President’s Medalists
Sara Leonetti, President’s Medalist for the student who has completed most of his/her degree requirements at the UW

Sanjit Kaur, President’s Medalist for the student who transferred to the UW from a Washington community college

Alumnus Summa Laude Dignatus
The Honorable Norman D. Dicks