March 4, 2010
Etc.: Campus news & notes
OCEAN OFFICIAL: The American Geophysical Union, an international 5,800-member organization concerned with Earth and space sciences, has elected Jim Murray, UW professor of oceanography, as president-elect of its ocean sciences section. The six-year commitment involves two years each as president-elect, president and past-president. Murray is a chemical oceanographer interested in such things as the cycling of iron and carbon in the equatorial Pacific that influences the flux of carbon dioxide in and out of the ocean. He was the founding director of the UW’s Program on Climate Change.
STUDENT SELECTOR: Ana Mari Cauce, dean of the UW College of Arts and Sciences, has been appointed to the Jacob K. Javits Fellows Program Fellowship Board by Arne Duncan, U.S. Secretary of Education. The board selects students based on achievement, financial need and exceptional promise in the arts, humanities and social sciences. In 2009, the board named 72 fellows from 764 applicants. For fiscal 2010, the maximum personal stipend will be $30,000 and the payment to the student’s institution is estimated to be $13,755.
EDITOR EXTRODINAIRE: Malcolm Parks, professor of communication, has been named editor of the Journal of Communication, one of the most highly cited journals among communication researchers and policymakers and the flagship journal of the International Communication Association.
LIFETIME LEADER: Terry Mitchell, a professor of management and organization at the Foster School of Business, has been named recipient of the 2010 Lifetime Achievement Award from the Organizational Behavior Division of the Academy of Management. The award is the highest honor of the Academy’s largest division. It annually recognizes one outstanding scholar whose research and service has made an indelible contribution to the discipline of organizational behavior throughout his or her career.
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