January 17, 2008
Etc: Campus news & notes
BEST OF BEST: The men, women and institutions that have made this region a better place in which to live is the basis for The Seattle Times editorial staff’s annual “Best of” recognitions, and the UW was well represented in their choices. Honorees included Sutapa Basu, director of the UW Women’s Center, who was recognized for the center’s Making Connections program, which helps high-school women from underserved populations get into college; Debra Glassman, faculty director of the Global Business Center at the business school, who made the list for her work to create and build a worldwide competition among students in socially oriented business plans; and Dr. Lawrence Corey, a researcher at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center and professor of medicine and laboratory medicine, who established the first human clinical trial of HIV/AIDS drugs more than 20 years ago, and “is part of the brainpower that is transforming the South Lake Union biotech hub.”
COPYRIGHT ADVOCATE: Jonathan A. Franklin, associate law librarian at the UW’s Marian Gould Gallagher Law Library, is one of three librarians chosen by the American Library Association to be the group’s first International Copyright Advocates, to “represent library interests on the world copyright stage.” Explaining why the advocate positions were created, ALA copyright specialist Carrie Russell said, “International forums like the World Intellectual Property Organization are dominated by commercial interests and historically focused on developing treaties that strengthen copyright law in the interests of rights holders. Commercial interests reign over public interest in part because they are financially able to send representatives to the international meetings. Libraries are often the sole defenders for ‘balanced’ copyright in these arenas, arguing that the law cannot be effective without certain limits to the copyright monopoly.” Franklin will serve in the position for two years.
DOUBLE HONOR: Professor Emeritus of Economics Gardner M. Brown, Jr. was honored by the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists (AERE) with both the 2007 AERE Fellows Award and the 2007 AERE Publication of Enduring Quality Award. Brown was selected as an AERE Fellow in recognition of his many contributions and innovations to the field of natural resource and environmental economics. The award for an enduring publication recognizes Brown’s 1974 book, Waterfowl and Wetlands: Toward Bio-Economics Analysis (co-authored with Judd Hammack) which concluded that increasing wetland areas and waterfowl numbers in North America could enhance social welfare in the use, both recreationally and commercially, of the wetland areas.
FLY LIKE AN EAGLE: The UW’s television channel, UWTV, was recently honored with a prestigious CINE Golden Eagle award. CINE Golden Eagle awards are given internationally in recognition of the highest production standards in filmmaking and videography. UWTV was recognized for Inside Access: Brain Aneurysms, part of the Inside Access series presented by UW Medicine. This program follows patients at UW Medicine Brain Aneurysm Center at Harborview being treated for this life-threatening condition.
FUTURE LEADER: Jennifer Lavy, a graduate student in the School of Drama, was recently selected to receive the K. Patricia Cross Future Leaders Award from the American Association of Colleges and Universities. The award recognizes graduate students who are committed to developing academic and civic responsibility in themselves and others, and who show exemplary promise as future leaders of higher education.
BOOK SIGNING: Bruce Taylor, a mental health specialist in psychiatry at Harborview, will be signing and reading from his new novel, Edward: Dancing on the Edge of Infinity, at 7 p.m. Jan. 18 at Fremont Place Book Company, 621 N. 35th St. The novel, which took 18 years to get published, is loosely based on Karel Capek’s fabulous work, War with the Newts, and is set in a magic realist universe. It is about a young man finding his purpose and the meaning of his life through his dreams.
