January 11, 2007
ETC: Campus News and Notes
OYSTER DELIGHT: “It was a tough task, choosing the best from a bevy of beauteous bivalves.” That’s what Washington Sea Grant Science Writer David Gordon had to say after judging the Most Beautiful Oyster Contest hosted by Elliott’s Oyster House in Seattle. The grower of the winning oyster, Penn Cove Shellfish, LLC, received $500, but Gordon ate the champion oyster when no one was looking.
HIV EXPERT: UW Tacoma Associate Professor Charles Emlet has been selected to serve a second term on the Governor’s Advisory Council on HIV/AIDS. Emlet, a member of UW Tacoma’s Social Work Program faculty since 1999, is one of the nation’s leading experts in HIV disease in older people. He hopes his continued service on the statewide panel will give him an opportunity to educate more people about the risks of HIV and AIDS after age 50. He is the author of a book, HIV/AIDS and Older Adults: Challenges for Individuals, Families and Communities, published in 2004.
LOCA MOTION: Michelle Habell-Pallan, associate professor in American Ethnic Studies, received an honorable mention in the MLA Prize in United States Latina and Latino and Chicana and Chicano Literary and Cultural Studies competition for Loca Motion: The Travels of Chicana and Latina Popular Culture, published by New York University Press. The committee’s citation for the honorable mention reads, in part: “This scholarly examination of Chicano/a and Latino/a popular culture embraces a diverse array of radical arts, music, performance, and texts that have remained on the margins of academic thought and of mainstream United States culture. Michelle Habell-Pallan’s sensitive analysis of comedians such as Marga Gomez, the performer Maricela Norte, Chicana punk musicians, Luis Alfaro, El Vez, and the Latino Theater Group in Vancouver not only contributes new insights into the struggles of power that Chicano/a texts continue to embody but also expands the canon in Chicano/a cultural studies…. This is a must-read for cultural studies and Latino/a scholars.”
SAVING THE CANAL: Washington Sea Grant Program Assistant Janis McNeal received an Achievement Award from the Hood Canal Coordinating Council for delivering fine-mesh kitchen sink screens to almost 2,000 property owners along the canal. The screens help lessen Hood Canal’s dissolved oxygen problem by capturing about 3 percent of the nitrogen that might otherwise enter the canal. The award commended McNeal and Sea Grant’s water quality specialist, Teri King, for continuing to think outside the box to find new ways to reach underserved populations. In this case, reaching said populations included kayaking to secluded properties on weekends.
SOIL SAVANT: Robert Harrison, a professor in the College of Forest Resources, has received the honor of Fellow of the Soil Science Society of America. Fellows are selected through an intense nomination and review process that analyzes nominees’ achievements in education, research, service and leadership. Fellow is the highest honor the society bestows on its members.
ACCESS TALK: Sheryl Burgstahler, director of accessible technology for UW Computing & Communications, was the keynote speaker at the first Indo-U.S. Conference on Information Technology Uses for Children and Adults with Disabilities last month in Bangalore, India. The event included people from U.S. and Indian universities, information technology companies, IT-developing non-government organizations, professional associations, and family centers, as well as individuals with disabilities. Burgstahler’s talk was titled Access to Technology for People with Disabilities: Theoretical Framework, Research and Practice in the United States.
BOOKIN’ IT: A new book, Forests and Society: Sustainability and Life Cycles of Forests in Human Landscapes, was edited by a team with UW connections. Kristiina Vogt, Daniel Vogt and Robert Edmonds are on the faculty in the College of Forest Resources, while Jon Honea and Michael Andreu are recent graduates of the college.
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