UW News

February 14, 2008

Etc: Campus news & notes

CREDIT FROM CASE: As usual, the UW did very well in the awards competition sponsored by District VIII of the Council for the Advancement and Support of Education (CASE), coming home with 26 honors.

In the Video and Multimedia category, the University won three awards. Crystal Eney, Pam Lowell, Rodney Prieto, David Rispoli, Henry Levy and Ed Lazowska won gold for recruitment videos and films. Kirsten Atik, Jodene Davis, Janice DeCosmo, Tony Grob, Meg McHutchison and Aly Vander Stoep also won gold for public relations videos and films. And Dave Syferd & Partners, Mike Johnston (BELO) and UW Marketing won silver for video advertising spots and PSAs.

In the Writing News Releases category, UW took home seven awards. Sandra Hines won both a gold and a silver and Nancy Gardner won a silver and two bronzes. Vince Stricherz won a bronze, as did Jill Carnell Danseco of UW Tacoma.

In the Writing Individual Features or Articles category, there were six UW awards. Eric McHenry won silver for a Columns alumni magazine article, while Nancy Joseph won silver for an A&S Perspectives article. Ed Kromer won a silver and a bronze for articles in the UW Business School magazine, while Sandra Sarr of UW Tacoma won a silver and a bronze for articles in Terrain, the UWT alumni magazine.

Tom Griffin, Eric McHenry and Sarah DeWeedt won a silver in the Writing Periodical Team category for articles in a single issue of Columns, and Michael Croteau won a bronze in the Periodicals—External Audience category for the UW campaign newsletter.

There were two UW awards in the Writing Direct Mail category. Sandy Marvinney and Heather Hoeksema won silver for the Engineering Lecture Series, while Deborah Illman and Sarah Conradt won bronze for Profiles in Team Science.

Jill Carnell Danseco won a bronze in the Photography and Illustration category for an individual photograph. In the Visual Design category, there were three UW awards — all bronzes. Ann Kumasaka of a.k.a design, Mel Curtis Photography and UW Marketing won for the Recognition Gala, Kumasaka and UW Marketing won for the Ben Hall Dedication Brochure and Jo-Ann Sire, Sarah Childers, Maren Halvorsen, Julie Lancour, Kathleen Noble, Nancy Sisko and Robert Vaughan won for the Center for Young Scholars brochure.

In the Fund Raising and Special Audience Publications category there were two UW awards — a silver for Ann Kumasaka, Mel Curtis and UW Marketing for the Recognition Gala and a bronze for Sarah Conradt Creative, Antoinette Wills and UW Marketing for UW History of Giving.


COVERED WITH HONORS: UW Press also did well in a competition — in this case the AAUP “Book, Jacket and Journal Show,” honoring outstanding jacket and cover designs. Four UW press books made the grade. In the Scholarly Typographic category, Beyond Literary Chinatown, by Jeffrey F.L. Partridge and Ipse Dixit: How the World Looks to a Federal Judge, by William L. Dwyer were honored. Designer and production coordinators were Pamela Canell for Chinatown and Audrey Meyer for Ipse Dixit. Acquiring editors were Jacqueline Ettinger for Chinatown and Pat Soden for Ipse Dixit. Project editors were Kathleen Pike Jones for Chinatown and Marilyn Trueblood for Ipse Dixit.

In the Trade Typographic category, Danish Cookbooks: Domesticity and National Identity, 1616-1901, by Carol Gold, was honored. The Designer/production coordinator was Ashley Saleeba, acquiring editor Michael Duckworth and project editors Dipika Nath and Trueblood. In the Trade Illustrated category, Arctic Spectacles: the Frozen North in Visual Culture, 1818-1875, by Russell A. Potter got the nod. The design/production coordinator was Saleeba, acquiring editor Ettinger and project editors Jonathan Dore and Mary Ribesky.


BOOKED IN JAPAN: Professor Robert Pekkanen has been selected as a recipient of the prestigious 2008 Masayoshi Ohira Memorial Prize for his book, Japan’s Dual Civil Society: Members without Advocates and will also participate in a speaking tour across Japan organized by the U.S. Embassy in Tokyo this summer. Pekkanen is chair of the Japan Studies Program in the Jackson School of International Studies and an assistant professor of East Asian Studies. His book seeks to explain the dual structure of Japan’s civil society: there is widespread citizen participation in local civil society groups, but few nonprofit organizations and a less professionalized civil society in Japan than in most Western democracies. Japan’s Dual Civil Society also received a prize from the Japanese Nonprofit Research Association in 2007. A Japanese translation is slated to arrive on shelves in Tokyo in February 2008.