June 24, 2004
Campus news and notes
JAMMERS JAM: Allow us to be boastful for a moment and note that University Week’s parent department, News & Information, is home to the current champs of the Walk-in Challenge. The Toe Jammers, consisting of media rep Nancy Gardner (captain), media rep Rob Harrill, webmaster Ken Fine and UWeek editor Nancy Wick racked up an average 506.8 points and 124.7 miles for the month of May. That placed them far ahead of their closest competitors in the two categories, the Paperback Pedestrians with 425.8 points and the Water Walkers with 82.4 miles. Having cleaned up handily, the team has retired and left the field to other competitors in June and July.
CASE WINNERS: Two other News & Information staffers are in the winner’s circle too. Media reps Joel Schwarz and Steven Goldsmith won a gold medal from the national Council for the Advancement and Support of Education (CASE) for General News Writing. Other UW CASE winners include three bronze medals, two in the Visual Design in Print category (“Opening Doors to our Future” invitation and Eifman Gala invitation) and one in Development Publications Packages (The Second Annual Recognition Gala). The Opening Doors design was by John Linse and Jo-Ann Sire, the Eifman Gala design by Sire and the Recognition Gala design by Sarah Conradt of Conradt Creative.
ARTFUL DART: The Association for Educational Publishers presented The UW’s Dart Center for Journalism and Trauma with a Distinguished Achievement Award for Excellence in Educational Publishing this month. The center was among 119 winners from more than 1,400 entries. Accepting the award on behalf of the center was Web designer Adam Welch, owner of Hemisphere Design, who has worked with the Dart Center for the past three years, and is responsible for the design, layout and maintenance of http://www.dartcenter.org. Also noted were the contributions of Meg Spratt and Jesse Tarbert, who are responsible for written content on the Web site, and Jeffrey Cantrell who is responsible for still and video images.
OCEAN OF HONOR: The College of Ocean and Fishery Sciences has announced its annual awards. Gabrielle Rocap, assistant professor of oceanography, was chosen by students for the Distinguished Undergraduate Teaching Award. Deborah Kelley, associate professor of oceanography, was named Distinguished Faculty Researcher. Marcus Duke, webmaster and information specialist for the School of Aquatic and Fishery Sciences, won the Distinguished Staff Service Award. And Rita Horner, principal research scientist/engineer in the School of Oceanography, won the Distinguished Staff Service Award.
INTERNATIONAL SUPPORT: Steven Shadle, a serials cataloger at the UW Libraries, won a cash award from the Bogle-Pratt International Library Travel Fund to attend his first international conference in Port-of-Spain, Trinidad and Tobago. The fund is administered by the American Library Association International Relations Committee and honors Sarah Comly Norris Bogle, a prominent U.S. librarian who made notable contributions in international library service. Shadle presented a paper at the conference.
PSYCHED UP TEACHERS: Four graduate students received the Department of Psychology Distinguished Teaching Award for Graduate Students at the department’s 33rd annual Research Festival recently. The honored students are Jurate Lasiene, Reo Wexner Newring, Mark A. Oakes, and Deborah Ignatoff Paulsen. These awards are for overall career achievement and distinction in teaching. The teaching award committee consisted of Beth Kerr (Chair), Renee Ha, Nancy Kenney, and Mike Passer.
PSYCHED UP RESEARCHERS: The UW Department of Psychology gave its annual Guthrie Prizes for best undergraduate paper to Jamie Gum and Fred Leach. Gum’s paper, “Can Self-Control Be Depleted? Limitations of Self-Regulation in Preschool Children,” sponsored by Professor Stephanie Carlson, was chosen as best empirical paper, while Leach’s paper, “Perceiving Asymmetric Costs of Action and Inaction: A Difference in Construal Level,” sponsored by Professor Jason Plaks, was the best conceptual/review paper. Committee members were Bob Kohlenberg (Chair), Jonathon Brown, Jim Canfield, Stephanie Carlson, Lyn Katz, Michael Rudd, and Sally Moore.
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