October 7, 2010
Etc: Campus news & notes
STAYING WELL: Jeffrey R. Harris, professor of health services and director of the UW Health Promotion Research Center, received the American Cancer Society’s Stay Well Award to acknowledge his community service in health promotion, advocacy, and fundraising. Harris’ community service includes serving as the principal consultant on workplace health promotion to the ACS Employer Initiative, which operates nationwide. For the past two years, he has also led discussions with the board of the ACS Great West Division on obesity prevention, physical activity promotion and the elimination of health disparities. His advocacy work has included briefing the Washington state Legislature on tobacco control and on the benefits of the proposed $1 per pack tobacco tax increase that passed in Washington last spring. His fundraising for ACS included help in initiating the UW Relay for Life in 2003. Dr. Harris’s Relay team that year led in fundraising. Since then, the UW Relay has raised more than $2 million for cancer research, prevention, and control.
AND THEY’RE OFF: Eight UW students have won Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad Fellowships, up from five last year and only one the year before that. The award, which is given to fewer than 150 students nationwide each year, is “designed to provide opportunities for graduate students to engage in full-time dissertation research abroad in modern foreign language and area studies. Projects are chosen to deepen research knowledge on and help the nation develop capability in areas of the world not generally included in U.S. curricula.” UW students, the countries they will go to and their fields of study are: Amanda Swain, Lithuania, history; Shruti Patel, India, history; Hoang Ngo, Vietnam and France, history; Catherine Warner, India and Nepal, history; Fahed Al-Sumait, Kuwait, communication; and Allan Lumba, Philippines, history. (Two students declined to have their names published.)
TIDES AND TIME: Art Professor Rebecca Cummins is one of the artists whose work is included in a new exhibit, Repercussions: Tides and Time, at Soil Art Gallery. The opening reception is from 6 to 8 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 7, and Curator Alex Emmons will give a talk on the exhibit at 2 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 16. The exhibit runs through Oct. 30 in the gallery, 112 Third Avenue South.
COLORS OF WATER: And speaking of exhibits, many on campus remember Bill Talley, who was the University Landscape Architect for many years. Now an exhibit of Talley’s watercolors, titled the Barnstable County Series, is on display at the UW Club through Oct. 22.
WHERE TO GO: While many in the University community were taking a break over the summer, the official campus map was updated. The new maps are available for purchase from Creative Communications using a departmental budget number. They can be ordered in packs of 100 for $25 a pack. To order, go to Creative Communications and click on online ordering, then campus maps.
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