January 25, 2007
Etc: Campus news and notes
PRODUCTIVE PROFS: The UW ranks highly in a new Faculty Scholarly Productivity Index, the results of which were announced in a recent Chronicle of Higher Education article. Academic Analytics, a company partially owned by the State University of New York at Stony Brook, ranked 7,294 individual doctoral programs in 104 disciplines at 354 universities. The UW ranked 17th overall among large research universities, defined as those with 15 or more doctoral programs. University programs rated number one included fisheries science and management, pharmaceutical sciences and medicinal chemistry, genetics, microbiology, business administration and zoology. Other programs in the top 10 included anatomy, marine biology and biological oceanography, nutrition, epidemiology and forestry, number two; molecular biology, communication sciences and disorders, public health and statistics, number three; cell biology, chemical engineering and special education, number four; physical oceanography, number five; toxicology, number six; applied mathematics, number seven, botany and plant biology, marketing, electrical engineering, astronomy and astrophysics, theater and women studies, number eight; immunology and physiology, number nine; and sociology and neuroscience, number ten. In the rankings, publications, citations and sometimes books counted for 60 points, grants for 30 points and awards and honors for 10 points.
A WORD TO GRADS: Sandra Madrid, assistant dean for students and community development at the UW School of Law, will return to her alma mater, Colorado State University-Pueblo, to deliver the commencement address this May. “I’m just thrilled, humbled and honored,” Madrid said of being chosen speaker.
PROFESIONAL DEVELOPER: Wayne H. Jacobson, associate director of the Center for Instructional Development and Research (CIDR), was recently elected to a three-year term on the Core Committee for the Professional and Organizational Development Network in Higher Education (POD). The Committee is essentially the Board of Directors for POD, an international organization focused on instructional, faculty and organizational development. Jacobson had previously served the organization as conference evaluation coordinator, conference program chair, chair of the Diversity Committee, and a member of numerous other committees. His election is an acknowledgement of his significant contributions to professional development at the UW and throughout the international academic community.
DISTINGUISHED SCHOLAR: Paul T. Hill, the John and Marguerite Corbally professor in the Evans School of Public Affairs and director of the Center on Reinventing Public Education, is the co-winner of the Fordham Prize for Distinguished Scholarship. The prize is conferred on scholars “who made major contributions to education reform via research, analysis and successful engagement in the war of ideas.” Hill was cited for producing “some of the most important policy works of this generation.”
Do you know someone who deserves kudos for an award or other honor, book publications, etc.? Send that person’s name to uweek@u.washington.edu.
