February 12, 2009
Etc.: Campus news & notes
PREMIER PRESS: The UW Press was honored with 12 awards recently, eight for its designers and four for the content of its books. Design awards include a Scholarly Typographic Design Award from the American Association of University Presses (AAUP) for The Fishermen’s Frontier: People and Salmon in Southeast Alaska, designed by Pamela Canell; a Scholarly Illustrated Design Award from the AAUP for Mine Okubo: Following Her Own Road, designed by Ashley Saleeba; a Reference Design Award from the AAUP for The Informed Gardener, designed by Saleeba; Jacket/Cover Design Award from the AAUP for Two Kinds of Time and Yellowfish: A Novel, both designed by Thomas Eykemans; a Bookbuilders West Certificate of Design Excellence for Experiences of Passage: The Paintings of Yun Gee and Li-lan, designed by Saleeba; Homebase: A Novel, designed by Eykemans and a Bookbuilders West Certificate of Jacket Design Excellence for Artisans of Early Imperial China, designed by Saleeba.
Editorial awards for content include the Alfred H. Barr Award from the College Art Association for A Kiowa’s Odyssey: A Sketchbook from Fort Marion, edited by Phillip Earnfight; The Charles Rufus Morey Award from the College Art Association; the James Henry Breasted Prize from the American Historical Association; and Outstanding Academic Title from CHOICE, all for Artisans in Early Imperial China, by Anthony Barbieri-Low.
SCIENTIFIC STAR: Psychology Professor Alan Marlatt was awarded the American Psychological Association’s Distinguished Scientific Contributions to Clinical Psychology Award. The APA cited Marlatt’s “exemplary contribution to the field.”
GOVERNMENT HELPER: The Evans School of Public Affairs has won the 2009 Warren G. Magnuson Memorial award. The Municipal League of King County, marking 50 years in March, named the school as one of three groups and eight individuals who have made outstanding contributions to the community. The Magnuson award recognizes a group outside local government that enhances the work of such governments.
PLUNGING IN: The UW Police’s Polar Plunge event Jan. 31 at the Magnuson Park Beach drew 93 courageous, er, plungers who braved frigid water and raised about $17,000 for the Special Olympics, according to Ray Wittmier, UWPD interim chief. The plunge, promoted also by UWPD Officer Cham Kao, was held in partnership with the Michael G. Foster School of Business as well as the Seattle Police and the Washington State Patrol. The formal name of the event was the 2009 Law Enforcement Torch Run Campaign Polar Plunge.
BEING BEN: Property and Transport Services staffer G. Robin Smith brings his one-man Ben Franklin show to Woodinville at 7 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 18. Smith says he will give “an evening of interactive history and first-person entertainment as one of America’s founding rascals.” Tickets for the show, which will benefit Tent City Four, are available at the tent city, at Share/Wheel and at the door for $10. The event is at the Woodinville Unitarian Church, 19020 NE Woodinville Duvall Road.
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