Archive

May 31, 2007

David Goldstein

For many, David Goldstein is a natural choice as recipient of a 2007 Distinguished Teaching Award.

Erasmo Gamboa

Erasmo Gamboa spends a lot of time on the golf course, but he’s not trying to improve his handicap.

UWMC wins national environmental award

Gary Butrymowicz has empty pop cans in his office.

Has spring cleaning got you thinking of making changes to your home? Maybe a bit of remodeling, or some new landscaping? UW Benefits & Work/Life, in partnership with Home Street Bank, is ready to help with its Home Improvement Fair.

Lauro Flores

Now well into his third decade of service at the UW, Lauro Flores, professor and chair in the Department of American Ethnic Studies, is a consummate teacher and a passionate advocate of diversity and inclusion.

James Gregory

While the city of Seattle today enjoys a reputation as a livable,friendly and politically correct metropolis, as recently as 1966 racially segregated schools and neighborhoods were de rigueur.

June features Foege, life sciences, biostatistics, and brain injury

Rushmer Lecture

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UW Police launch night walk

The UW Police Department launched a new program this week to provide uniformed escorts for faculty, staff and students to and from buildings, from parking lots and within close proximity of the campus.

Douglas Black

Doug Black didn’t set out to earn one of the UW’s Distinguished Teaching awards; he didn’t even set out to have an academic career.

J. Carey Jackson

Trained as an anthropologist and a physician, J.

Commencements slated June 8-10

Mark A.

G. Kent Nelson

UW Tacoma Senior Lecturer G.

Don Wulff

When Don Wulff was 7 years old, his parents decided he and his two siblings would attend school in town, not the one-room schoolhouse they’d been attending.

Alzheimer’s disease Public Forum set for June 13

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Terry Swanson

Terry Swanson firmly believes a key to his teaching success is making classes intimate.

Eve Riskin

Eve Riskin sometimes strolls into the office wearing a pair of cow boots.

Giving back: Faculty, staff and retirees contribute to the UW out of their values

Each faculty, staff or retiree gift to the UW is a story of relationships — of how people choose to work at the UW because it reflects their values, and how those values are carried out not just in their working days but in the gifts they choose to make.

Shingles pain is subject of lecture June 19

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Matt Sparke

When Matt Sparke was growing up in England he took an exam administered to many 11-year-olds to measure their problem-solving and reasoning skills — basically an intelligence test.

Raj Bordia

German graduate student Andre Zimmerman moved to Maryland to complete his doctoral research.

Time flies as UW artist has fun with pig

For Jennifer Carroll, happiness is a gold pig .

Jerusha Achterberg

As strange as it seems, being a poor dance student has made Jerusha Achterberg a better classroom teacher.

Dan Evans

Dan Evans came close to becoming the vice president of the United States twice, but luckily for his home state, it didn’t work out either time.

Etc: campus news and notes

RUNNING THE NUMBERS: You’ve heard the expression “trash into treasure” applied to recycling, but UW Recycling probably hadn’t thought of its trash as being the inspiration for art.

Alex Coverdill

Students seem to respond to environments that are relaxed and open, where they can pitch out ideas without fear that their peers will think less of them, according to Alex Coverdill, doctoral student in biology and one of this year’s Excellence in Teaching Award recipients.

Dawn Williams

In 1990, Dawn Williams was a recent business school grad who wanted to reconnect with the University.

She helps students reach their dreams

Mona Pitre-Collins once swore she would never be a teacher like most of the members of her family.

Deborah Flores

You know you’ve come to a challenging work environment when, shortly after you arrive, resignations leave you with a skeleton staff of strangers and you have to put yourself on the payroll because no one else knows how.

Minh-An Nguyen

Minh-An Nguyen, 21, majoring in biochemistry and chemistry, has been named a President’s Medalist — the outstanding student to complete at least three-fourths of her education at the UW.

Concrete floats at annual races

By Hannah Hickey

News & Information

Don’t tell these paddlers that concrete isn’t the best material for building boats.

Multidisciplinary International Research Training (MIRT)

Michelle Williams says she created the Multidisciplinary International Research Training (MIRT) Program to “allow minority students to have an international experience, something I didn’t have until I was a graduate student.

Elise Saba

Elise Saba, who will be receiving a bachelor’s degree in English, has been awarded a President’s Medal for scholarship as a transfer student — an award given to a student who entered the UW with at least 60 transfer credits from a Washington community college.