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SPECIAL CASES: As usual, the University of Washington did very well in the regional competition for campus communications professionals sponsored by the Council for the Advancement and Support of Education (CASE). Award winners are listed below.

In the annual reports category, the UW’s “Discover a World of Possibilities” won a gold for Cheryl Nations, Alanya Cannon, Cynthia Flash, Joanne DePue, Susan Stoddard, Jo-Ann Sire, Mel Cutis, Susie Fitzhugh, Mary Levin and Kathy Sauber. In the special events publications category, “Inaugural Recognition Gala Event Package” brought a gold for Nations, Cannon, DePue, Deborah Fisher, Tom Griffin, Katherine Morris, Stoddard, Sarah Conradt, Loyd Heath, Davis Freeman, Levin and Sauber. In the same category, “Shidler Center Dedication” brought a silver for Robert Reynolds, Letha Wulf, Jennifer Carter, Sarah Nevue and Shelly Meyer.

In the student recruitment publications category, The UW Tacoma won a silver for the Institute of Technology’s “Guide for High School Students” produced by Mike Wark, Dan Jackson and Brian Anderson. Anderson was also named a “Rising Star” in the field of communications. In the same category, the UW’s “PBK Recruitment Brochure” won a bronze for Ann Marvin, Pamela Steward and Marcus Fellbaum.

In the category for magazines with a circulation between 5,000 and 20,000, the UW Business School won a bronze for its “Business Magazine” produced by Julie Case, Clark McCann and Ann Kumasaka. The same team also won a bronze for the magazine’s design.

In the publications design category, Sire and John Linse won a gold for the “Dean’s Report 2001” and the same team won a silver for “Discover a World of Possibilities” invitation. Sire also won a bronze for “Fueling our State’s Economic Future.” In the same category, Ken Shafer won a silver for “Columns Magazine” and Stefanie Choi and Jennifer Amend won a silver for “Shidler Center dedication materials.”

Robyn Ricks, Joel Nakamura, Louis Echols, Andrea Copping, Susan Cook and Melissa O’Neill won a gold in the illustrations category for the “Sea Grant calendar.” And Stewart Hopkins and Heath won a bronze in the photo series category for “Jewel Renewal.”

In the news release category, Vince Stricherz won a gold for “UW researcher plans project to pin down moon’s distance from Earth” and a bronze for “Rain will take greater toll on reindeer, climate change model shows.” Rob Harrill won two silvers in the same category, one for “Male biological clock” and one for “Salmon or hydropower.”

In the feature articles category, Amend won a silver for her “Profile” cover story — “A Parcel of One’s Own.” Amend, Kathy Swinehart and Sandra Madrid won a bronze in promotional copy for the “Admissions Bulletin.”

And in the public relations category, Wark, Sandra Carson, Karen Reed, Trish Adams, Anderson, Patricia Fandt, Jeff Rounce and Emily Reiter of UW Tacoma won a silver for “2001 Business Leader Awards.” Congratulations to all the winners.

A WINNING LIBRARY: The Suzzallo Library renovation project is one of seven recipients of the American Institute of Architects (AIA) Library Building Awards. The awards were developed “to recognize and encourage excellence in the architectural design and planning of libraries.” The seven winners were chosen from more than 120 entries. Judges noted that the architects in the project were presented with a significant existing library, then challenged with the unusual demands of extensive restoration and extreme seismic renovation. “The design solution,” they said, “visibly incorporates new seismic structural elements without compromising the integrity of the original building.” Seattle-based firms Cardwell Architects and Mahlum Architects shared responsibility for the planning and implementation of the massive seismic and life safety renovation.

FULBRIGHT STARS: Six UW professors are among about 800 recipients of Fulbright grants to study and lecture abroad this academic year. They are Donald Clarke, law, Tsingshua University, China; Pauline Erera, social work, Chiang Mai University, Thailand; James Murray, oceanography, Bogazici University, Turkey; Arlene Plevin, English, Tamkang University, Taiwan; Jaromir Ruzicka, chemistry, Charles University, Czech Republic; and Joel Walker, history, SS. Cyril and Methodius University, Macedonia. Recipients of Fulbright awards are selected on the basis of academic or professional achievement and because they have demonstrated extraordinary leadership potential in their fields.

2020 VISION: The UW’s Pay-Per-Use-Parking Program received a VISION 2020 award at the Puget Sound Regional Council’s General Assembly recently. The program was one of eight honored for helping to achieve aspects of VISION 2020, the region’s united growth management and transportation strategy. The Pay-Per-Use Parking Program is one of the University’s flexible transportation programs. It allows employees to be charged only for the days they park their car (rather than paying a flat fee for unlimited parking).

KUDOS: Political science professor Bryan Jones has received the Herbert Simon Award for Contributions to Public Administration Scholarship, awarded by the Midwest Caucus on Public Administration. He also received the Harold Lasswell Award for the best article published in Policy Sciences in 2002, for his piece “Bounded Rationality and Public Policy: Herbert A. Simon and the Decisional Foundation of Collective Choice”. . . Naomi Sokoloff, professor in the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilization, has been appointed to the Samuel and Althea Stroum Endowed Chair of Jewish Studies, a three-year appointment that includes public lectures. Sokoloff’s specialties are Hebrew language and literature and the Holocaust and its literature . . . Craig Hogan, UW vice provost for research, has been elected to the Board of Directors for the National Space Biomedical Research Institute. The NSBRI, a NASA-funded consortium of which the UW is a member, studies health risks related to long-duration space flight, including bone and muscle loss, cardiovascular changes, radiation exposure and sleep disturbances . . . English Professor Charles Johnson was one of seven people named recently as distinguished alumni of the Evanston Township High School in Evanston, Ill. The program was established to honor alumni annually who are noted in their field of endeavor and/or recognized for their expertise and good works by their peers and others.