February 10, 2005
Etc.: Campus News & Notes
Anthropology Professor Donald Grayson has been named winner of the Nevada Medal, established in 1988 by the Desert Research Institute to acknowledge outstanding achievement in science and engineering. The annual award includes an eight-ounce minted medallion of .999 pure Nevada silver and a $20,000 lecture honorarium.
Institute President Stephen Wells said, “Dr. Grayson has conducted landmark research in wide-ranging but related areas. He has made fundamental as well as innovative scientific and historical contributions in many disciplines, strongly influencing those who work in them.”
Grayson, whose research focuses on human interaction with the landscape and using archaeological data to answer biological questions, will be honored at a dinner March 8.
ACADEMIC RHYMERS: When poems start appearing on Metro buses in April, the work of two UW staffers and one UW student will be among them. William Freeberg, secretary supervisor in Radiology; Hagar Shirman, office assistant in Physics; and Scott Provence, a junior in English all had their poems chosen from 1,800 submitted in the competition.
The work of 40 adults and 20 k-12 students will be displayed on the panels near the ceiling of the buses as part of National Poetry Month. Freeberg’s poem is called The Swede Equation; Shirman’s is Brocaded Life, while Provence’s is titled The Telemarketer.
All the poets receive $125 and will be invited to present their work at a special public reading in April. The poems will also be published, both online and in book form.
MORE RHYMING: And speaking of poetry, Creative Writing Professor Linda Bierds has won an Emily Clark Balch Prize for Poetry. The award is given by the Virginia Quarterly and honors the best writing to appear in its pages in the previous year. Bierds is being recognized for three poems that appeared in the winter 2004 issue, The Cats, Vespers and DNA. The award comes with a cash prize of $1,000.
PREMIERE PURCHASER: Kerry Kahl, director of Purchasing and Stores, has been named treasurer of the Educational and Institutional Cooperative Service, a national group purchasing organization for higher education. The cooperative aggregates the knowledge and purchasing power of its member institutions to secure advantageous pricing on a wide range of products and services. The largest cooperative of its kind with 1,500 members, E&I member purchases totaled more than $400 million last year.
KUDOS: Warren Fox, senior electrical engineer at the Applied Physics Laboratory, has been named chair of the Oceanic Engineering Society Technical Committee on Modeling Simulation Visualization.
Do you know someone who deserves kudos for an outstanding achievement, award, appointment or book publication? If so, send that person’s name, title and achievement to uweek@u.washington.edu.
