May 20, 2010
Etc.: Campus news & notes
RISING CONSERVATIONIST: Julian Olden, assistant professor of aquatic and fishery sciences, has received this year’s Early Career Conservationist Award from the Society for Conservation Biology, a 10,000-member organization. Within five years of completing his doctorate, Olden has published more than 85 papers and become internationally recognized for developing a quantitative framework for investigating biotic homogenization, the society says. He also has contributed to the study of the establishment and spread of invasive aquatic species.
SCIENCE ADVOCATE: Daniel Grunbaum, associate professor of oceanography, has received one of five Science Education Advocate Awards given this year by the Washington State Leadership and Assistance for Science Education Reform, a statewide group that helps school districts implement ongoing, research-based science programs. As part of the awards program May 3, Gruunbaum and the other winners were part of a roundtable panel discussion about science, technology, engineering and math education.
LEADING LIBRARIAN: At the Annual Medical Library Association meeting, May 24, Sherrilynne Fuller, professor in the Information School and the Division of Biomedical and Health Informatics, School of Medicine, will receive the Noyes award, the highest professional distinction of the Medical Library Association. The award was established in 1947 and recognizes a career which has resulted in lasting, outstanding contributions to health sciences librarianship. Fuller served as the director of the Health Sciences Libraries from 1988- 2008 and currently is the co-director of the Center for Public Health Informatics in the School of Public Health.
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