April 8, 2004
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MASSIVE MUSIC: Some time ago, University Week featured a story about a UW biostatistician who founded Science Groove, a band of UW employees and friends specializing in educational science songs. You might think that’s a unique niche, but you’d be wrong. Science Groove wants you to know that on its Web site, http://www.science-groove.org, it has posted a searchable database of over 1,400 math and science songs from all over the world. Who knew there would be that many? The primary purpose of the database, called Massive, is to enable teachers to find songs with content and music appropriate for classroom use. And adding to that music, Science Groove has just released its latest album, Muscles and Magnets, inspired by the dissertation of UW research associate Greg Crowther.
RARE CARE: The College of Forest Resources’ Rare Plant Care and Conservation Program at the Center for Urban Horticulture received the Conservation Project Award from the United States Forest Service and the United States Bureau of Land Management. The award honors projects with outstanding conservation accomplishments for fish, wildlife and/or native plants and their habitats for public lands. The program was chosen because of the innovative ways it trains and manages 134 volunteers to monitor 266 rare plant populations, collect and safely conserve seeds of rare plants and promote conservation education.
SCIENCE COMMUNICATOR: UW Tacoma Associate Professor David Secord was one of 20 academic environmental scientists nationwide selected as Aldo Leopold Leadership Fellows for 2004. Secord, a marine biologist and co-founder of UWT’s Environmental Science programs, does research on non-native species introductions, especially in marine habitats and estuaries such as Puget Sound. He studies the environmental costs and benefits of anticipating, detecting, preventing and controlling potentially damaging invaders. Aldo Leopold Leadership Fellowships provide scientists with intensive communications and leadership training to help them communicate scientific information effectively to non-scientific audiences, especially policy-makers, the media, business leaders and the public.
KUDOS: Alan Marlatt, psychology professor and director of the Addictive Behaviors Research Center, has been named the recipient of the 2004 Distinguished Researcher Award by the Research Society on Alcoholism. Marlatt is the first behavior therapist to win the award from an organization that is predominately biomedical in orientation . . . Barry Hyman, professor emeritus of mechanical engineering and public affairs, was appointed to the Executive Advisory Board for Parks College of Engineering and Aviation at St. Louis University . . . Steve P. Calandrillo, associate professor at the UW School of Law, has agreed to serve as an advisor to LifeSharers, a nonprofit network of organ donors that offers members preferred access to the organs of fellow members.
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