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WINNING WTO: The UW’s WTO History Project, http://depts.washington.edu/wtohist/, drew praise in the Nov. 23 edition of The Scout Report, a major Internet publication on important sites for research and teaching. A joint project of the UW’s Harry Bridges Center for Labor Studies and the University Libraries, the WTO History Project catalogs the genesis of the protests that erupted in late 1999 during World Trade Organization meetings in Seattle. Cited as “particularly groovy and educational” was the UW project’s trove of protest fliers, posters, letters and more. The Manuscripts, Special Collections and University Archives Division makes the content Internet-accessible using CONTENTdm, a multimedia database developed at the UW. The WTO project’s leaders include coordinator Gillian Murphy, digital initiatives coordinator Kody Janney and manuscripts curator Karyl Winn.
FULBRIGHT WINNERS: Two UW faculty members are lecturing in other countries this year as Fulbright Scholars. Brian Magnusson, affiliate assistant professor of Scandinavian Studies, is at the University of Jyvaskyla, Finland, while Russell Prather, instructor of English, is at Cadi Ayyad University in Morocco.
CLIMATE CHANGE SHOWCASE: The UW’s Program on the Environment was asked to line up UW faculty to showcase their research projects on climate change at a special panel being convened at the request of the U.S. Department of State’s International Visitor Program. Seventeen representatives in the “Urban Environmental Solutions” multi-regional project asked for the panel, which took place earlier this week and included students in the audience. Panel members included Nathan Mantua, research scientist, JISAO/SMA Climate Impacts Group; Ed Sarachik, atmospheric sciences professor; Richard Gammon, chemistry professor; Jim Murray, oceanography professor; Jeff Richey, oceanography professor; and Phil Malte, mechanical engineering professor.
OUTSTANDING ART: Art professor Mary Lee Hu has won a $25,000 unrestricted award for artists from the Flintridge Foundation. The award is given to West Coast artists working in fine arts and crafts media whose work “demonstrates high artistic merit and a distinctive voice dating back 20 years or more.” Hu was singled out for her work in jewelry.
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