November 8, 2007
Etc.: News & Notes
STUDENTS FOR SERVICE: A team of UW landscape architecture students has been selected from hundreds of national and international entries for an award in the community service category from the American Society of Landscape Architects. The award honors their efforts in creating the Safe Passage Entry Garden in the poorest neighborhood of Guatemala City in the summer of 2006. The students designed and built a series of healing garden spaces to serve children and families who survive by picking trash in the adjacent landfill. (See our story on their project <a href=http://uwnews.org/uweek/uweekarticle.asp?Search=guatemala&articleid=27694>here</a>.) The students honored included Amanda Bell, Paul Chasan, Terri Chiao, Arielle Farina Clark, Hilary Clark, Jocelyn L. Freilinger, Ryan Ihm, Jeff Kurtz, Vanessa Lee, David Marshall, Noriko Marshall, Justin Martin, Michael Michalek, Nicole Mikesh, and Elizabeth Umbanhowar. The students’ faculty adviser was Daniel Winterbottom.
FLYING HIGH: The UW Air Force ROTC unit has been given the Right of Line Award by the U.S. Air Force, naming it the most outstanding Air Force large unit detachment in the nation. The criteria for the Right of Line Award include best overall academic record, cadet activities, university relations, community service, and innovation. Detachment 910 competed with 144 other detachments across the country to earn this prestigious award. It is the second time in five years that UW’s detachment has been so honored.
LITERARY LION: Beyond Literary Chinatown, a book published by UW Press, has been given an American Book Award by the Before Columbus Foundation. The award was created in 1978 to “provide recognition for outstanding literary achievement from the entire spectrum of America’s diverse literary community.” Written by cultural analyst Jeffrey F.L. Partridge, Beyond Literary Chinatown looks at the ghettoization of Chinese American Literature that parallels physical Chinatowns.
BAY HERO: The UW Tacoma was among three universities to receive Citizens for a Healthy Bay’s “Bay Hero Award for Excellence in Environmental Education” for its outstanding contributions to the health of Commencement Bay and surrounding waters. UW Tacoma was selected for the award based on its proposed Urban Waters program now under development. It will provide leading research on cleaning and maintaining urban waterways like Commencement Bay, offer students learning opportunities in environmental science and attract high-level expertise and funding to UW Tacoma to focus on the areas where its research and teaching can have a great impact on protecting local waters.
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