February 8, 2007
Etc: Campus news and notes
FIRST-RATE FUNDERS: The UW’s Combined Fund Drive (CFD), and the people who make it happen, have received an armload of awards from King County’s CFD office. Four UW employees were given Outstanding Coordinator awards for their CFD efforts. They are Ann Sarna, Treasury Office; Marjorie Wadden, Harborview Medical Center administration; Hilary Whitford, Educational Outreach Advising and Recruitment; and Ellen Whitlock, Evans School of Public Affairs. Two staff members were given the Sustained Excellence Award. They are Phillip Buff of the Environmental Health office and Dawn Counts of the Department of Urology. Intercollegiate Athletics was given the Outstanding Team Award and Financial Management’s mystery theater fundraiser was named Outstanding Event. The UW won a CFD award from King County for the Greatest Increase in Dollars Pledged by an Institution of Higher Education. The UW also won a statewide award for the highest CFD participation among the universities.
LEGAL LIONS: UW School of Law students won the Association of the Bar of the City of New York National Moot Court Competition last week. Dustin Buehler and Aaron Thomas, both third-year students; and Candice Tewell, second year, defeated Texas Wesleyan School of Law in the championship round. The team argued before a panel of seven distinguished judges that included Wisconsin Supreme Court Chief Justice Shirley Abrahamson, U.S. District Court Judge Paul Crotty, New York City Bar Association President Barry Kamins, and American College of Trial Lawyers President David Beck. Immediately after the final round, the UW team received an official invitation from the American College of Trial Lawyers to address the college at its annual national meeting in Denver this March. In addition to the team’s national championship, Buehler was the second-place oral advocate in the competition. The team was coached by UW School of Law alumni Shawn Griggs and Patrick Hinds. The UW students were the winners in a field that originally included more than 150 law school teams.
LIBRARIES LEADER: Neil Rambo has been appointed an Association of Research Libraries Visiting Program Officer for Library Support of Research and e-Science for a term that runs until 2009. The ARL assignment will further an agenda that includes informing ARL members about e-science issues, developing relationships with key stakeholders, understanding the needs of researchers using digital data collections, developing strategies related to the curation of digital data, identifying the skills needed by information professionals to move into support of e-science, and helping to develop new roles for libraries as e-science infrastructure and service needs emerge. The assignment complements Rambo’s recent appointment at UW Libraries as director of cyberinfrastructure initiatives and special assistant to the dean of UW Libraries for biosciences and e-science.
EXCELLENT EXECUTIVES: UW Executive Education is one of just nine university executive education programs recognized worldwide this year by the Economist Intelligence Unit, the publisher of The Economist Magazine, for excellence in custom programs. Senior executives rated custom program providers on faculty quality, cost/value for money, ability to understand issues specific to a company and six other factors. Custom courses are tailored by business schools for individual companies and often address issues specific to those companies.
TOPS IN TOYS: UW Crime Prevention Officers April Lesho and Garnell Stewart coordinated a toy drive on campus that garnered 817 toys from people in 21 different buildings. Employees at Hall Health were especially generous, donating 275 toys to the drive. The toys went to the Startlight Starbright Children’s Foundation, which helps seriously ill children and their families to cope with their pain, fear and isolation through entertainment, education and family activities.
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