August 3, 2006
Etc: Campus news & notes
NURSING PATRIOTISM: The U.S. Army has given UW Tacoma’s Nursing Program a Patriot Award for its support of Adviser Ginger Hill while she was on deployment. Hill, who recruits and advises master of nursing students and also lectures in the program, has been deployed several times in the past three years. A nurse with an 18-year Army career, she has recently been sent to Fort Lewis, Georgia and Germany — twice.
“I think I’ve been gone for half of the last three years,” Hill said. “It’s been quite an adventure for me.”
Hill joined the Army in 1969, at the height of the Vietnam War, and resigned her commission in the 1970s. In 1992, however, she decided to join again during Operation Desert Storm. Hill said the staff and faculty in the nursing program have worked hard to fill her duties at work while she’s gone and ensure that she has a job when she returns. Adviser Dannah Madden, program administrator Nan West and program assistants Crystal Perrine and Laurie McKay often take on Hill’s duties when she’s not there.
“The Nursing Program has allowed me to succeed at both parts of my life,” Hill said.
RECYCLING STARS: The UW was awarded two Recycler of the Year Awards at this year’s Washington State Recycling Association’s Annual Convention. Award winners were chosen by a volunteer committee composed of waste reduction educators, garbage collectors, recycling processors, government leaders and environmental advocates. Awards are given for innovation, environmental and economic benefit, level of commitment, and expansion potential to the greater recycling community.
Facilities Services won best Environmental Sustainability Program, in the Institution of Higher Education category, and Property & Transport Services won for their Evolutionary Campaign, which targeted paper recycling by distributing Personal Recycle Bins to all staff on campus, as well as educating the campus population about the City of Seattle Paper Ban.
CHICKEN IN EVERY POT: Jacob Moyer, a sous chef for the UW’s Bay Laurel Catering, was one of six finalists in last week’s Culinary Challenge sponsored by the National Association of College and University Food Services. The theme of this year’s competition, held in Toronto, was chicken. Moyer’s dish was breast of chicken with parmesan crust, pan-fried semolina gnocci and warm tomato vinaigrette. He placed fourth in the national competition, but he’s already a winner, having been chosen to compete after winning a regional culinary challenge.
HAPPY LANDING: Seattle’s Museum of Flight now has an exhibit of a Viking FC#3 Mars Lander, thanks to Jim Tillman, research professor of Atmospheric Sciences and a former Viking Lander Meteorology Team member. Tillman donated the lander — the only Viking Lander Flight Capsule body left on Earth — to the museum after it spent a number of years on display in the Electrical Engineering Department. UW students helped with the restoration of the lander. The Viking 1 and Viking 2 Landers were both launched from Cape Canaveral, Fla., in 1975; the lander on display was a spare.
SCIENCE FOR NON-SCIENTISTS: The American Society of Plant Taxonomists has recognized Arthur Kruckeberg, professor emeritus of biology, with its Peter Raven Award. The award is given by the society to a plant systematist who has made exceptional efforts at outreach to non-scientists.
ON BOARD: Maurice Warner, assistant director of the UW’s Counseling Center, has been selected to serve on the board of directors for the newly established Center for the Study of College Student Mental Health. The center is the first large-scale effort to collect and disseminate data nationally on student mental health concerns and treatment outcomes.
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