College Reading (with Jill McKinstry)
8.15.08
Here & Now Radio, an NPR affiliate in Boston, produced a 5-minute-program about common book programs and interviewed people from three institutions: University of Washington, Skidmore, and North Carolina State.
Listen (RealPlayer)

2008-09 UW Common Book is The Devil's Highway by Luis Alberto Urrea

Congratulations Mona Pitre-Collins, UAA colleague and Distinguished Staff Award Recipient!

Congratulations Clay Schwenn and Kurt Xyst, recipients of an Outstanding Advising Technology Innovation Certificate of Merit from the National Academic Advising Association! Read the press release.

Watch the "Advising Through Podcasting" videocast

UW Seattle receives recognition for service (pdf)

UAA colleagues recognized at CASE District VIII Communication Awards
Among the many awards taken home by the University of Washington on February 29 at the annual district 8 awards for the Council for Advancement and Support of Education were:
- Bronze for individual publication design for the Center for Young Scholars program brochure to Jo-Ann Sire, Sarah Childers, Maren Halvorsen, Julie Lancour, Kathleen Noble, Nancy Sisko, and Robert Vaughan.
- Gold in public relations videos and films for the Mary Gates Endowment for Students: Celebrating 10 Years to Kirsten Atik, Jodene Davis, Janice DeCosmo, Aly Vander Stoep, and Gigantic Planet. (View the video through iTunes U at UW: http://www.itunes.washington.edu.)

CASE 8 awards juried prizes of gold, silver, and bronze for excellence in communication. The District covers nearly all universities and colleges in western Canada (Manitoba, Saskatchewan, Alberta, BC), Alaska, Montana, Idaho, Washington, and Oregon. CASE is the professional organization of the advancement field of higher education.

Of interest: Keeping researchers and undergraduates happy
In a Chronicle of Higher Education podcast interview, President Emmert describes how the UW balances research priorities with the experience it offers undergraduates. While UAA programs are not named directly, you may find it of interest. It's 9 minutes long.
http://chronicle.com/media/audio/v54/i26/emmert/?utm_source=at&utm_medium=en

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Undocumented Immigrants: Workers or Criminals?
9.29.08
The Devil's Highway highlights issues involved in a Washington State lawsuit. Read the Daily feature on this lawsuit.

UW Honors students win award for earthquake relief work
University Week | 9.25.08

Robinson Center alum wins $1.4 million playing poker
Seattle PI | 9.25.08

Distinguished Staff Award: Mona Pitre-Collins
Before Mona Pitre-Collins became director of the Undergraduate Scholarship Office in 2000, the UW had gone 15 years without a Rhodes scholar. Since then, UW students have been selected for four Rhodes scholarships, four Trumans, six Marshalls, seven Udalls and 22 Goldwaters. That doesn't count other scholarship awards, either: Mitchell, Merage, Beinecke, Gates Cambridge and Jack Kent Cooke.

Facing sophomore slump: Adviser has been there
University Week | 06.05.08
Kurt Xyst is one adviser who knows firsthand about the challenges students face. He dropped out of college on his first try, and he didn't pick up his degree until 11 years after he'd started.

Honors students Steve Margitan and Geoffrey Morgan help China earthquake survivors

Homeless youth are class focus
University Week | 05/22/08
This course allows an avenue for exploration of the issues of homelessness in young people from a critical and interdisciplinary perspective. The course is grounded in a service-learning format; students will work in one of the many homeless youth-serving organizations in the University District as an integral class requirement.

Immigration issue is central to new Common Book
University Week | 05/22/08
The Devil's Highway: A True Story, by Luis Alberto Urrea, has been selected as the third UW Common Book by Undergraduate Academic Affairs. The UW Common Book project aims to introduce freshmen to the University's academic community through a common reading experience and opportunities to engage in campus discussions and activities around the book.

Experiential learning: UW students get unexpected lesson when earthquake strikes
University Week | 05/22/08
After the magnitude-7.9 earthquake in southwest China on May 12, UW students, staff and faculty members got some education they hadn't planned on. Sichuan University students attending the UW got some education they hadn't planned on, either.

UW students in China start earthquake relief organization
The Daily | 05/20/08
A small group of University of Washington undergraduates studying at Sichuan University are in the process of founding their own organization to help earthquake victims in Sichuan province, China.

UW communities organize vigil and fund drive for China earthquake victims
University Week | 05/20/08
A bus stocked with food, water, tents and other things that victims of the May 12 earthquake in southwestern China might use to reassemble their lives.

Vigil tonight for China earthquake victims
The Seattle Times | 05/20/08
University of Washington student Ni Jiang is contacting media, trying to get word out about efforts to help victims of China's earthquake, including a vigil tonight at the UW.

Scholarship guru teaches kids the ropes
Seattle PI | 05/09/08
Sam Lim collects scholarships like some students amass parking tickets.

Undergrad research in spotlight May 16
University Week | 05/08/08
Extrabular: That which is rambunctious, extensively extracurricular and spectacularly life-changing. It's how UW undergraduate Amir Stone describes his research, which uses infrared tracking and real-time imaging in a digital arts installation called "Blight Horizon."

On the fast track
The Daily | 04/21/08
It’s your first day at the UW. You clumsily move all your things into the dorms with the help of Mom and Dad and feel like you’ll never get to know anyone. After the tears and hugs, you sit and wait for your unknown roommate, wishing you were back in high school.

UAA Gateway Center adviser Laura Avila quoted in "What's Your Minor"
The New York Times | 04/20/08
DO minors matter? I need to know — right now, please — because as my second daughter sits across the table compiling an “apply to” list that favors the sort of university that offers lots of them, I am writing checks totaling $46,180 for a child at a college with no minors.

Honors student Tara Olson featured in "Mexican culture spreads to the UW through Mariachi music
The Daily | 04/14/08
The famous Mexican “grito,” or cry of independence, could be heard coming from senior Tara Olson last Friday. Dressed in a traditional studded “charro” costume, a black suit with gold stitching, Olson blended right in to the band El Mariachi Quito Sol.

Classroom clickers here to stay
The Daily | 04/10/08
As recently as four years ago, professors looking for audience response technology were responsible for it themselves.

Student and her flying feet entertain at airports
University Week | 04/03/08
Alice Gosti loves airports. So it makes a certain sense, perhaps, that as a dancer she would she would want to perform in them.

Compassion is theme as students work during Alternative Spring Break
University Week | 04/03/08
Lucy Brennan, a UW sophomore in art and the comparative history of ideas, worked with third and fourth-graders at Forks Elementary School during Alternative Spring Break the last week of March.

Class Notes: Learning by teaching, writing and service
University Week | 03/06/08
What We Know and How We Know it; Teaching What We Know and Serving Others with What We Know -- a three-term sequence in Undergraduate Honors, taught by Frances McCue, writer in residence in the Undergraduate Honors Program and part-time lecturer in the College of Education.

UW students hit the road to cover presidential campaigns
UW News | 02/28/08
David Domke's students are hitting the road. Twelve of the 16 members of his University of Washington class in online journalism and politics leave late this week to cover the Tuesday caucuses and primaries in Texas. They'll fan out to Houston, Dallas, Austin and San Antonio, having already covered caucuses and primaries in Idaho and Washington state.

What you don’t know about your teachers
The Daily | 02/26/08
Here at the UW there are two types of teachers: those on the tenure track and those on the non-tenure track.

Photos take peek at freshmen's lives
The Seattle PI | 02/22/08
Arielle Ross stares vacantly out of a black-and-white photograph, a cigarette clamped between her fingers.

Students develop -- themselves and photos -- through seminar, exhibit
University Week | 02/21/08
Ten UW freshmen will exhibit the results from their freshmen seminar, Develop: Production of a Photo Essay, beginning today in Odegaard.

UW Seattle receives President's Honor Roll award for service
University Week | 02/21/08
The UW Seattle has been named to the President's Higher Education Community Service Honor Roll with Distinction for exemplary service efforts and service to disadvantaged youth. The Corporation for National and Community Services bestows the honor.

UW wins award for civic programs
The Seattle Times | 02/14/08
The University of Washington's Seattle campus has been chosen by the Corporation for National and Community Services for a President's Higher Education Community Service award for programs that aid disadvantaged youths.

Move over, podcasting -- screencasting's a growing trend
University Week | 01/24/08
Podcasting is so yesterday, pedagogically speaking. Today it's all about video, or as the cognoscenti call it here, screencasting. And as with the earlier generation of audio production, the UW is in the forefront of providing instructors with the tools to make video happen without lifting a finger.

UW alums give peace a chance
The Seattle Times | 01/20/08
For the second year in a row, the University of Washington tops the list of large colleges sending volunteers to the Peace Corps. This achievement shines as brightly as the university's academic and research distinctions.

UW student receives prestigious scholarship in the United Kingdom
The Daily | 01/10/2008
Many students dream of the opportunity to study at a major university overseas. Because of various reasons many do not get the opportunity.

Many opportunities to help others on MLK Jr. Day of Service Jan. 21
University Week | 01/10/08
The Central Branch Preschool was founded in 1968, the year Martin Luther King Jr. was murdered. You could help honor King by helping to repaint the school on Jan. 21, as part of the Day of Service in his name.

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For specific Departmental News & Events please visit the links below:

Carlson Leadership & Public Service Center:
http://depts.washington.edu/leader/5_word/index.htm

University Honors Program:
http://depts.washington.edu/uwhonors/news.html

Robinson Center for Young Scholars:
http://depts.washington.edu/cscy/news/

Teaching Academy:
http://www.washington.edu/uaa/academy/events.html

Undergraduate Scholarship Office:
http://www.washington.edu/students/ugrad/scholar/

or visit our Programs & Initiatives page to access links to specific departmental websites.

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