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APL HONORS: Bill Plant, principal research scientist at the Applied Physics Laboratory, is the recipient of the John Wesley Powell Award, presented by the U.S. Geologic Services for significant contributions to the USGS mission. The award recognizes his work with river radars. Arthur Chan, a graduate student working with Shahram Vaezy, the associate director for education of the APL’s Center for Industrial and Medical Ultrasound, won the New Investigator Award from the World Congress of Ultrasound for his work on MRI-guided focused ultrasound therapy. Chan recently earned his doctorate in bioengineering.
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| Left to right, Ilga Reizniece, Gatis Gaujenieks, Vilnis Strods and Egnos Kronbergs — members of the Latvian band Ilgi — play their music for students in the Introduction to Folklore Studies class. |
CANADA CALLING: The Canadian Studies Center has a new director, who came, appropriately, from a Canadian university. Kim England, who arrived at the UW from the University of Toronto in 1999, focuses her research on the social, economic and political geography of cities. England replaces Douglas Jackson, the founder of the Canadian Studies Center, who is retiring. The appointment comes just as the center has learned it’s been awarded its fifth Title VI U.S. Department of Education grant in partnership with the Center for Canadian American Studies at Western Washington University.
LATINO LANDMARK: U.S. Magistrate Ricardo Martinez, a graduate of the UW’s Educational Opportunity Program and the UW School of Law, is the top choice of President George W. Bush to fill a vacancy on the federal bench in Seattle. If confirmed by the Senate, Martinez would be the first Latino to serve as a federal district court judge in Washington.
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