December 3, 2009
Etc.: Campus news and notes
COURTING SUCCESS: UW School of Law students Lisa Benedetti, Andrew Gardner and Justin Andrews won the regional National Moot Court Competition last weekend, defeating Seattle University in the final rounds. They will represent the UW at the national finals, to be held in New York City in 2010. Third-year law student Keaton Hubbert won Best Oralist at the regional competition. UW School of Law students won the National Moot Court Competition in 2007. The competition is sponsored by the New York City Bar. Since 1950, it has provided law students across the United States with the opportunity to strengthen their appellate advocacy skills.
FANTASTIC FULBRIGHT: The Fulbright Program recently announced the complete list of colleges and universities that produced the most 2009-2010 U.S. Fulbright Fellows, and the UW was among them. Twelve students — three current undergraduates, one recent graduate and eight graduate students from the University won Fulbright awards for 2009-2010. Forty-seven students applied, setting an institutional record for the number of applications. Among research institutions, the UW shares eleventh place with Cornell University. Fulbright applications for 2010-11 increased by about 25 percent. Under this program, 1,559 American students in more than 100 different fields of study have been offered grants to study, teach English, and conduct research in over 125 countries throughout the world beginning this fall.
RESEARCH EXCELLENCE: The Society for Social Work Research’s Excellence in Research Award was given to an article written by three UW authors. “Screening for Domestic Violence in Public Welfare Offices: An Analysis of Case Manager and Client Interactions,” by Taryn Lindhorst, associate professor of social work; Marcia Meyers, professor of social work and public affairs; and Erin Casey, assistant professor of social work at UWT, appeared in the journal Violence Against Women. In conferring the award, the society “recognizes the significance of the problem addressed in the research, the rigor of the analysis and its contribution to knowledge in social work and social welfare.”
ADDICTION RESEARCH: The Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies’ special interest group on addictive behaviors recently gave UW Psychology Professor G. Alan Marlatt its Lifetime Achievement Award. Marlatt’s doctoral student, Diane Logan, was honored with the Outstanding Dissertation Award.
ARCHITECTURE ACCOLADES: The 2010 edition of America’s Best Architecture & Design Schools, published annually by Design Intelligence journal, ranks the UW among the country’s top 20 graduate programs in architecture. The rankings are based on a survey of principals in 381 participating design firms, who evaluate programs based on excellence in the preparation of students for professional practice. Out of 121 accredited graduate professional programs, the UW is number 19. America’s Best Architecture & Design Schools also includes rankings of landscape architecture, interior design, and industrial design programs, adding to its practitioner-based surveys supplemental surveys of programs most admired by deans and department heads. This year the deans’ survey ranked UW’s undergraduate landscape architecture program third in the United States, “cited for its design-build program, strong urban focus, and excellent faculty.”
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