June 1, 2006
ETC: Campus news & notes
AWARDS, AWARDS: There is an addendum to the May 18 item about national awards from the Council for the Advancement and Support of Education. News & Information’s Rob Harrill won a silver award in the Best Articles of the Year category for his Columns article on cell phone research. He was one of 14 winners at the gold and silver levels out of 265 entries, and one of only three at that level from public universities. This category is open to freelancers as well as staff writers and is an extremely difficult contest.
Columns articles also picked up some awards in the regional competition sponsored by the Society of Professional Journalists. Editor Tom Griffin won a First Place for Education Reporting in Magazines for “Growing Pains,” about the need for four-year programs at UWB and UWT. Griffin also won an honorable mention for Social Issues Reporting in Magazines for “The Stolen Years, Part One,” about Japanese American students interned during World War II. Associate Editor Eric McHenry won a Second Place for Education Reporting in Magazines for “Common Ground,” about the UW diversity monument. Freelancer Scott Holter won a Third Place for Sports Reporting in Magazines for “Playmaker,” a profile of UW football coach Tyrone Willingham. UW photographers Mary Levin and Kathy Sauber won a Third Place for Photo Essays in Magazines for portraits in “The Stolen Years, Part One.” UW writer Peter Kelley won an honorable mention for Arts and Criticism Reporting in Magazines for “Scene Change,” about drama students who leave their profession.
WRITER ON RADIO: A short story by UW English Professor Charles Johnson was read on the popular National Public Radio program Selected Shorts, produced by Symphony Space in New York. In a taped presentation broadcast by KUOW last month, actor Ruben Santiago-Hudson read Johnson’s story “A Soldier for the Crown,” from Johnson’s story collection Soulcatcher. The story also appears in Africans in America: America’s Journey Through Slavery, which Johnson edited along with Patricia Smith.
RAVES IN LONDON: Student musicians don’t usually receive reviews in London newspapers, but that’s what happened to the UW Wind Ensemble recently. The London Financial Times published a review of the Seattle Symphony’s “Made in America” festival held in Benaroya Hall, a festival that included a concert in which the wind ensemble appeared. The group rated these comments: “That peculiarly American institution, the wind ensemble, was the medium for music of surprising sophistication in a concert by the University of Washington Wind Ensemble led by Timothy Salzman, part of Saturday’s all-day concert marathon. Cindy McTee’s Finish Line pulsated energetically and William Bolcom’s Song was simply gorgeous. Michael Colgrass’s Arctic Dreams offered a compendium of ways to depict icy cold through music.”
BOOKING IT: A book by Christine Ingebritsen, acting dean and vice provost of undergraduate education, was released this month by Rowman & Littlefield as part of their Europe Today series. The book, Scandinavia in World Politics, was described as the first sustained appraisal by a U.S. scholar of Scandinavia’s foreign policy and role in the global economy in the post-Cold War period.
DESIGNER CAMPUS: Design work on two UW projects — the Conibear Shellhouse and Merrill Hall, UW Botanic Gardens — has earned the Miller/Hull Partnership an Honor Award and a Citation Award in the Civic Design Awards 2006 presented by the Washington Council of the American Institute of Architects earlier this month. The Civic Design Awards program identifies public projects that are hallmarks of civic design. A total of nine civic works earned awards this year.
