July 22, 2010
Etc.: Campus news & notes
TOP TWENTY: The UW is among the Top 20 large (more than 10,000 students) colleges and universities sending graduates to the Teach for America Program. UW ranked 19th with 30 graduates preparing to teach this fall in urban and rural public schools across the country.
Teach For America corps members are top college graduates and professionals who commit to teach for two years in underserved schools and become lifelong leaders in the pursuit of educational equity. Teach For America recruits individuals from all academic majors and backgrounds who have demonstrated outstanding achievement, perseverance, and leadership.
Teach For America first produced its top contributors list in 2008. The UW made its debut at 11th on the top contributors list in 2009. You can view the list online here.
IN THE PUBLIC INTEREST: Psychology Professor Alan Marlatt is this yearʼs recipient of an American Psychological Association Distinguished Scientific Contributions to Public Interest Award. The award was given by the APA’s Division 50, a professional interest group that promotes advances in research, professional training, and clinical practice within the broad range of addictive behaviors, including problematic use of alcohol, nicotine, and other drugs and disorders involving gambling, eating, sexual behavior, or spending. The award is in recognition of Marlatt’s work and its impact on addictions.
IMAGINING AMERICA: The UW Bothell’s Bruce Burgett, director of interdisciplinary arts and sciences, has been named vice chair of the National Advisory Board of Imagining America: Artists and Scholars in Public Life. Housed at Syracuse University, Imagining America is a national consortium of colleges and universities that supports and advocates for public scholarship and practice. Its mission is to strengthen the public role and democratic purposes of the humanities, arts and design.
INTERNATIONAL LANDSCAPE: Landscape architecture student David Brame is among nine students who will spend the first two weeks of August studying the grounds surrounding the U.S. Mission to the United Nations in Geneva and drafting a sustainable landscape design that can be phased in over five years. The students will work alongside three Swiss landscape architecture students, and under the guidance of three American landscape architecture educators. The project is jointly sponsored by the U.S. Mission and the American Society of Landscape Architects. The U.S. students were chosen from more than 130 applications.
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