June 25, 2009
Etc: Campus news & notes
Charles Johnson, who holds the S. Wilson and Grace M. Pollock Professorship for Excellence in English, received an honorary doctor of letters from Washington & Lee University at its commencement June 4. Johnson, who has won the National Book Award and a MacArthur grant in the past, was cited for the way “he challenges the assumptions and beliefs of his readers and refuses all simplifications of the complexity of American reality, whether in terms of race, gender, history, politics or religion.”
Sheila Edwards Lange, vice president for minority affairs and vice provost for diversity in the Office of Minority Affairs, has been named president-elect of the Women in Engineering ProActive Network board. Founded in 1990, the network promotes the success of girls and women who traditionally have not pursued engineering. Lange is one of six new officers for the group who will begin their terms July 1 and serve until June 2011.
And finally, the UW came away with two national Circle of Excellence awards from the Council for Advancement and Support’s (CASE) annual competition. Eric McHenry, former co-editor of the UW Alumni Association’s Columns magazine, won a bronze award in the Best Articles of the Year: Higher Education category for his September 2008 story about children’s author Beverly Cleary, “Kids Like Us.”
And we at University Week are proud to say that our publication won the gold award in the category for Web-based or Electronic HTML Internal Audience Periodicals.
