January 14, 2020
Faculty/staff honors: Consulting assignment in Africa, honorary doctorate in Bern, conservation leadership award
Recent honors to University of Washington faculty and staff include an honorary doctorate from the University of Bern, an award for biodiversity conservation and a consulting assignment for the World Health Organization.
Climate Impacts Group scientist Meade Krosby honored by conservation organization
Meade Krosby
Meade Krosby, a senior scientist with the UW Climate Impacts Group, has received the 2019 Wilburforce Conservation Leadership Award for her work advancing biodiversity conservation under climate change.
The award is from the Wilburforce Foundation, a private philanthropic organization that supports land, water and wildlife conservation efforts in western North America.
Meade was honored for her “impressive and highly relevant body of science scholarship and her dedication to the art and science of collaboration,” the organization wrote. “A great example of her dedication to connecting science to the climate change conversation is her 2018 op-ed in the Seattle Times about moving from despair about climate change to action.”
Krosby works with land and wildlife managers and policymakers to incorporate climate change into natural resource management. She is also the university deputy director of the Northwest Climate Adaptation Science Center. Read more on the Climate Impacts Group website.
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Carey Farquhar, School of Public Health vice dean, begins World Health Organization consulting assignment
Casey Farquhar
Carey Farquhar, professor of global health, medicine and epidemiology and vice dean in the School of Public Health, has begun a six-month consulting assignment for the World Health Organization on HIV, hepatitis and sexually transmitted disease testing.
Farquhar will be based in Geneva, but plans to travel throughout West and Central Africa. She will map health care service delivery in up to 13 countries in that region, and work with ministries of health on country-specific ways to support training in carrying out the testing. She began her assignment Jan. 1.
“All of my work so far has been in East Africa. I have wanted to get back to West Africa for a long time,” Farquhar said. “With the World Health Organization, I’ll have an opportunity to explore new collaborations and new areas of research.”
The assignment is a sort of return for Farquhar, who volunteered in Ivory Coast, or Côte d’Ivoire, as a college student. Read more on the school’s website.
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Political scientist Lance Bennett receives honorary doctorate from University of Bern
Lance Bennett
Lance Bennett, professor of political science and communication, has received an honorary doctorate from the University of Bern, as part of the celebration Dies academicus (Foundation Day) 2020, which commemorates the founding of the Swiss university in 1834.
Bennett received the award Dec. 7 at the University of Bern; he also participated in a daylong seminar on disinformation and democracy and communications among movement-based political parties on the radical right in Europe.
He is the Ruddick C. Lawrence Professor of Communication, and directs the UW Center for Communication and Civic Engagement. Read more on the department website.
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Tag(s): Casey Farquhar • Climate Impacts Group • College of Arts & Sciences • Department of Communication • Department of Political Science • Lance Bennett • Meade Krosby • School of Public Health
