April 20, 2006
ETC. campus news & notes
CASE CHAMPIONS: The UW did quite well at the regional award competition of the Council for the Advancement and Support of Education, picking up 21 awards in a variety of categories.
There were nine awards in the publications category. The School of Nursing case statement, by Lia Unrau and Tracy Ostrem, picked up a gold. Five publications won silver: “Engineering the Unexpected” by Tricia Thompson, Camille DeSantis, Sue Brockmann, Jim Hughes and John Marmor; Campaign UW suite of brochures by Alanya Cannon, Cheryl Nations, Jean Hayes, Michael Croteau and Sarah Conradt Creative; “Creating Justice”: UW School of Law case statement by Julie Case and Heather DeRosier; publications for the UW Recognition Gala by Cheryl Nations, Jean Hayes, Alanya Cannon, Joanne DePue, Jennifer Amend, Kathleen Donnelly, Sarah Conradt Creative and Mel Curtus; and “Vision: The School of Law Strategic Plan” by Pete Wentz, Julie Case, Heather DeRosier and Kerry Dahlen. Another three publications won bronze: the UW Foundation Report to Contributors, by Cheryl Nations, Jean Hayes, Joanne DePue, Kathleen Donnelly, and Ann Kumasaka; “Research that Matters: a More Perfect Union” by Deborah McCutchen, Kerry Godes, Catherine Lavelle, Casey Corr Susie Fitzhugh, Jo-Ann Sire, John Linse and Bryon Bowman; and “UW Festschrift,” by Alanya Cannon and Jo-Ann Sire.
Visual design, illustration and photography garnered five awards. Julie Case, Heather DeRosier, Pete Wentz and Kerry Dahlen won gold in visual design for “Vision: The School of Law Strategic Plan.” Case and DeRosier also won a silver in visual design for “Creating Justice.” Alanya Cannon and Hugo Shi won a silver in illustration for the Gates Volunteer Service Award. Kathy Sauber won a bronze for her photograph of Tyrone Willingham that appeared in Columns. And Tricia Thompson, Judy Mahoney, Denice Denton, Adam Bruckner, Yungmin Kim and Eric Stuve won a bronze in visual design for “A Community of Innovators.”
There were two winners in the periodicals category. The School of Social Work’s Forum Magazine won a silver in magazines for Kim Isaac and Andrea Hanson, while “Creating Futures” won a bronze in newsletters for Cheryl Nations, Jean Haynes and Alanya Cannon.
Two writing awards were also given. Sandy Marvinney won a bronze in features articles for “Biodiesel Fuels his Mission: New Grad Taking the Express Lane to Global Entrepreneurship.” And Julie Case and Heather DeRosier won a bronze in promotional copy for law school case statements.
And finally, in the projects category, Tricia Thompson, Armik Allen, Judy Mahoney, Sandy Marvinney, Cammille DeSantis, Sue Brockmann, Jim Huges and Jon Marmor won a silver in events for “Engineering the Unexpected.”
CASE is the professional organization for advancement professionals at all levels who work in alumni relations, communications, and development.
Congratulations to all the winners.
IN-PRINT HONORS: The International Publishing Management Association (IPMA) and In-Plant Graphics magazine recognized three Publications Services projects as winners in the In-Print® 2006 competition, which showcases excellence in print quality produced by an In-Plant (non commercial) printing facility. Pub Services won gold for the Accounting Newsletter’s fall, 2005 edition and the Faculty/Donor Fete—Save the Date for the College of Arts and Sciences. It won bronze for the College of Forest Resources stationery. To view samples of the winning work, go to http://www.washington.edu/admin/pubserv/updates/
FILM FUN: Americanese, the movie based on the novel American Knees by Shawn Wong, director of the University Honors Program, won two awards at the South By Southwest Festival — the Audience Award for Best Narrative Feature and the Jury Award for Outstanding Ensemble Acting. After this successful showing, Americanese was the opening night feature film at the 24th San Francisco Asian American Film Festival and then opened the 11th annual Chicago Asian-American Showcase where Wong and director Eric Byler spoke on the film and on Asian American media representations at three Chicago-area universities. Critic Roger Ebert gave the film 3 1/2 stars.
SIR DAVID: Political Science Professor David Olson was knighted by King Harald of Norway in the Royal Norwegian Order of Merit First Class. The honor came in recognition of Olson’s work supporting scholarly exchange between Norway and the United States. In 1979, he helped establish the UW-University of Bergen Exchange Program and then chaired the UW committee on that program for two decades.
A DIVERS’ DO: The UW recently hosted the 25th Annual American Academy of Underwater Sciences (AAUS) at the Friday Harbor Labs in the San Juan Islands. AAUS is the organization that sets the standards for the UW’s Scientific Diving Program. The Symposium was attended by over 100 diving safety officers and researchers. John Eriksen, the training manager for Environmental Health & Safety was the editor for the presentations and Sam Sublett, the diving safety officer, organized the event. The speaker at the banquet was the new director of Friday Harbor Labs, Ken Sebens.
MARKING A BREAKTHROUGH: A recent conference honored the 25th anniversary of seminal research by Economics Professor Charles Nelson and Stephen Beveridge (of the University of Alberta in Canada). According to the conference program, “Separating trend from cycle is central to the study of long-run growth and the business cycle. The goal is to measure the permanent and transitory components of output to identify its long-run and business cycle fluctuations. In 1981, Beveridge and Nelson developed “A New Approach to Decomposition of Economic Time Series into Permanent and Transitory Components with Particular Attention to Measurement of the ‘Business Cycle.'” Much business cycle analysis of the last 25 years would not be possible without this econometric model.”
MORE BREAKTHROUGHS: Each year, the editors of Science magazine look back at the big science stories of the past 12 months, and pick the Breakthrough of the Year and nine runners up. Both the 2005 Breakthrough of Year and the second runner up involve important contributions from UW scientists:
Breakthrough #1: Comparing Human and Chimp Genomes.
UW genome scientist Evan Eichler led a study that compared human and chimp genomes and revealed important new information about how evolution works.
Breakthrough #2: STARDUST Returns.
After covering 2.88 billion miles over seven years, Stardust returned to Earth carrying samples of comet dust, which scientist believe to be the oldest materials in the solar system. Don Brownlee, UW astronomer and Stardust project leader, believes the samples will yield insights into the evolution of our universe.
For more information, see http://www.washington.edu/research/fp_breakthrough.html
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