February 5, 2009
Etc.: Campus news & notes
LIBRARY LIONS: Three UW Libraries employees won national and international honors recently. Judith Henchy, head of the Southeast Asia Section, was honored with a medal and a recognition ceremony by the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism of Vietnam for her role in managing a project to microfilm early Vietnamese print resources in the National Library of Vietnam. The project was conducted under the auspices of the Center for Research Libraries with financial assistance from the Henry Luce Foundation and the Harvard Yenching Institute. As a result of Henchy’s work, the Southeast Asia Microform Project has filmed more than 250 titles representing a number of early journals and publications that are available nowhere else in the world.
Nancy Huling, head of Reference and Research Services, is the recipient of the Isadore Gilbert Mudge Award. The Mudge Award is given by the American Library Association’s Reference and User Services Association (RUSA) to an individual who has made a distinguished contribution to reference librarianship. Huling’s leadership among reference librarians has included serving as president of RUSA, and she was the 2006 recipient of the Genealogical Publishing Co./History Section Award from the organization .
Eleanor Chase, head of Government Publications, has won the Bernadine Abbot Hoduski Founders Award. The award, given by American Library Association’s Government Documents Round Table, recognizes those who have made significant contributions to the field of state, international, local, or federal documents, benefiting not only the individual’s institution but the profession as well. Chase’s encyclopedic knowledge of government publications, particularly the U.S. Census, is legendary among her University colleagues and around the region.
YOUNG AND GIFTED: Keiko Torii, an associate professor in biology, has received the Japanese Science and Technology PRESTO prize, given by the Japan Society for the Promotion of Sciences in support of excellent young researchers. She’s the first woman to receive the award from her section, which covers biological sciences, agricultural sciences, medical, dental and pharmaceutical Sciences. The award is given to 20 scientists each year who are under 45 and either hold Japanese citizenship or have done work at a Japanese institution.
REAL TO REEL: The new and final version of a film, Masizakhe: Building Each Other, produced by UW staffer Scott Macklin, will be screening at the REAL TO REEL Film Festival as part of the fifth anniversary of 206 ZULU, which is the Seattle chapter of the Universal Zulu nation, whose members promote hip hop culture. The screening will be at 6 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 14, in the VERA Project, a music and arts center run by and for youth at Seattle Center. The film is about spoken word poetry and hip hop in South Africa. Click here to see our earlier story about it.
AIDING ARMAGEDDON: Three UW scientists played key roles in development of a new eight-part miniseries that explores the continual destructive forces that have plagued life on Earth and triggered several mass extinctions throughout history. Biology Professor Peter Ward was the chief science adviser for Animal Armageddon, produced by Digital Ranch Productions. The mini-series, which debuts at 9 p.m. PST on Thursday, Feb. 12, on cable television’s Animal Planet, uses 3-D computer graphics to bring life to a vision of ancient Earth that includes various catastrophes and major extinctions that have taken place in the 600 million years of animal existence. In addition to Ward, Greg Wilson, an assistant biology professor, and Christian Sidor, an associate biology professor and curator of vertebrate paleontology at the Burke Museum of Natural History and Culture, are featured. The series deals with events such as a gamma ray burst that produced the first mass extinction more than 400 million years ago to the asteroid-induced disappearance of the dinosaurs 65 million years ago. There have been five major extinction events documented in Earth’s history, and 99 percent of all species that ever lived are now extinct. Animal Armageddon features creatures ranging from sea predators called nautiloids to dinosaurs to giant mammals that include mastodons. The series also examines the impact that natural cataclysms had on such creatures, and on the life that came after.
CASE TRIUMPH: The UW won 25 awards from the Council for the Advancement and Support of Education (CASE), Region VIII, which includes Oregon, Washington, Idaho, Montana, Alaska and western Canada. There were 161 awards given out from 756 entries.
Columns, the UW alumni magazine, won seven awards — two golds in the writing individual features or articles in magazines, newsletters, tabloids, and Web sites: institutions with enrollment over 15,000 FTE category for “Kids Like Us” and “No Ceiling,” both written by Eric McHenry; two golds in individual photography or illustration for photos of Betty Wagner and Floyd Jones, both by Jeff Corwin; a gold in the series of related photographs category for “So Bright,” also by Corwin; a bronze in the visual design improvement category (Ken Shafer, designer) and a bronze in the external audience magazines: institutions with enrollment more than 15,000 FTE category (Jon Marmor and Eric McHenry co-editors, Chuck Blumenfeld and Sue Brockman, publishers.
UW Marketing captured five awards — a gold in the capital or comprehensive campaigns category for Campaign UW: Creating Futures Closing/Celebration Communication plan, a silver in the special event publications category for UW Recognition Gala & Campaign Celebration, a silver in the fund raising and alumni relations videos category for the 2007 UW President’s Holiday eCard, a bronze in the external audience newsletters, tabloids or newspapers: institutions with enrollment more than 15,000 FTE category for Campaign UW Newsletters (Winter, Spring, Fall 2008) and a bronze in the advertising spots and public service announcements category for Campaign UW: Creating Futures Television Ads
UW Tacoma also picked up five awards — a silver in the writing individual features or articles in magazines, newsletters, tabloids and Web sites: institutions with enrollment under 5,000 FTE category for “Lost Boy Found,” by Sandra Sarr; a silver in fund raising and alumni relations videos for Campaign Gala Videos, by Mike Wark, Paul Lovelady and Beth Luce; a bronze in external audience magazines: institutions with enrollment of less than 5,000 FTE for Terrain, by the team of Sandra Sarr, Jill Danseco, Tyler Wilson, Filiz Satir, Beth Luce and Brian Anderson; a bronze in cover design for Campaign Report Book Cover by Tyler Wilson and Chris Medrzycki and a bronze in design improvement for Terrain redesign by Wilson.
Computer Science and Engineering won two awards — a bronze in the student recruitment videos category for 2007 Summer Academy for Advancing Deaf & Hard of Hearing in Computing — recruiting and a bronze in fund raising and alumni relations videos for UW CSE: Building for the Future. The team included Kay Beck-Benton and Pam Lowell.
Creative Communications won a silver in the design improvement category for Take Yourself on a Tour, by Jo-Ann Sire, while both the College of Engineering and the UW Alumni Association won silvers in the overall Web site category for their respective Web sites. The Alumni Association team included John Burkhardt, Mark Stewart, Paul Fontana, Derek Belt, Michele Locatelli and Jenica Wilkie. The College of Engineering team was made up of David Atcheson, Liz Diether-Martin, Karen Foley, Al Brower, Heather Hoeksema and Kristin Hofmeister.
Electrical Engineering also won silver in the recruitment folders, direct mail, event materials and brochures category for its Electrical Engineering Kaleidoscope 2008. The team included Howard Jay Chizeck, Laura J. Haas, and Sarah Conradt.
Bronze awards were won by the Law School in the recruitment folders & brochures category for the Health Law LL.M. recruitment piece, by Laura Paskin, Jo-Ann Sire, Jennifer Snider and Pat Kuszler; and by UW Bothell in the branding and image development/identity programs and projects category for Branding UW Bothell, created by Elizabeth Fischtziur, Paul Huereque, Jason Beard and Lisa Walker.
