UW Today | 5/7/12
Clay Schwenn, lead academic counselor for undergraduates, has won an Outstanding Advising Award from the National Academic Advising Association.
School of Art e-news | Winter-Summer 2012
Levi Higgs is an honors student and a student leader in the School of Art. How did a young man who grew up in Wyoming come to the University of Washington to study art history and discover his true passion while in Rome?
The Daily | 2/1/12
Desmond Huynh is a UW senior majoring in neurobiology and comparative history of ideas. He plans to go to medical school after he graduates. Even though Huynh is a senior, he is 18, the age of most freshmen. Huynh came to the UW at age 13 as a student in the Early Entrance Program (EEP).
UW Today | 3/26/12
During winter quarter, Dolphy Jordan and other former inmates like him were in a class with people equally hungry for education: honors students at the UW. And now the group of former prisoners and honors students, has become the Post-Prison Community Collaboration Project.
The Daily | 4/12/12
Ten former prisoners and eight honor students were a part of an honors class where they broke down boundaries of the assumptions and perceptions of prisoners. The students and everyone involved aim to put a human face to prisoners and post-prisoners, to let the public know prisoners are people.
2/28/12 | The Daily
Profile of Pike Place Senior Center’s Zoe Freeman. The senior center is the most continuously involved organization collaborating with the UW’s Carlson Leadership & Public Service Center.
The Daily | 2/13/12
A pop-up museum has nothing in common with a pop-up book. These museums, if you can call them that, quite literally “pop up” for a matter of hours and vanish without a trace. Read about one of the museums hosted in the Center for Experiential Learning and Diversity.
UW Today | 5/15/12
The largest Undergraduate Research Symposium in University of Washington history runs from noon to 5:30 p.m. Friday, May 18. At the first Undergraduate Research Symposium 15 years ago, 70 students presented their work. This year, almost 1,000 will explain projects ranging from movement recovery after spinal cord injury to the role of sports in post-earthquake Haiti.
UW Today | 1/13/2012
As one of many educators at the University of Washington it is distinctly powerful to welcome in and be responsible for the education of the next generation of leaders. Their struggle will not take place at a lunch counter and may not be one of de jure segregation or separate water fountains. Yet, more than 40 years after the death of Martin Luther King, the questions of the day are astonishingly similar.
The Daily | 4/3/12
Clay Schwenn, an academic counselor at Undergraduate Advising and head of peer advising at UW, recently received a regional award for excellence in advising from the National Academic Advising Association and is nominated at the national level.
UW Today | 1/12/2012
Ask Rachel Vaughn about her new job as director of the Carlson Leadership & Public Service Center — or her own recent honor from the ROOTS Youth Shelter — and she’s likely to talk more about the center’s hard-working students and staff than herself.
Seattle Times | 4/5/12
Half the students were academic stars at the University of Washington, selected for the highly competitive honors program. The other half were felons — people who had served time behind bars for crimes such as manslaughter, assault, forgery and drug possession.
UW Today | 4/4/12
The university will honor 26 individuals and one team of five this year as part of the annual university-wide awards program. The awards honor outstanding performance in teaching, mentoring, librarianship, public service and staff support.
The Daily | 3/30/12
In an attempt to lessen the difficulty of registration, the UW will release a program called MyPlan in September. MyPlan is an online tool developed to help students plan their degrees and consolidates many of the tools that students use now. UAA Assistant Dean Deborah Wiegand is quoted.
UW Today | 4/11/12
John Sahr, a UW professor of electrical engineering who studies the upper atmosphere, is the regional go-to guy for questions on solar flares. We found some time in Sahr’s busy schedule (he’s also the associate dean of Undergraduate Academic Affairs) to get his read on the space weather forecast.
UW Today | 5/8/12
University of Washington undergraduates will showcase their civic engagement projects at the annual Spring Celebration of Service and Leadership, from 4 to 6 p.m. Friday, May 11 on the second floor of Kane Hall.
The Daily | 5/14/12
Literacy Through Photography is a service-learning class offered through the Pipeline Project that seeks to help kids in Seattle public schools build self-awareness through photography and writing projects. This quarter, two groups of UW students volunteer once a week.
The Daily | 5/15/12
The Daily reports on the Fulbright Scholarship and features several undergraduate Fulbright recipients. Robin Chang, assistant director of the Office of Merit Scholarships, Fellowships, and Awards, is also quoted.
The Daily | 5/21/12
Nearly 1,000 undergraduate students flooded Mary Gates Hall last Friday during the UW’s 15th-annual undergraduate research symposium, the biggest yet in university history and one of the largest such symposia in the country.
Columns Magazine | March 2012
Two UW seniors were selected in November to receive Rhodes Scholarships, making the UW the only American public university with more than one Rhodes Scholar for 2012.
Seattle Times | 1/3/2012
The Dream Project, started and run by undergraduates at the University of Washington, helps students from schools in high-poverty areas around Seattle apply for college and find scholarship money.
The Daily | 2/13/12
The Daily profiles UW staff and faculty members responses to Washington state legislation for marriage equality. Director of Academic Support Programs Anne Browning is featured.
The Daily | 10/27/11
The UW Global Opportunities program offers two scholarships specifically for students going abroad. The first is the Global Opportunities (GO!) Scholarship, which is open to all majors who are Pell Grant and Husky Promise-eligible, and the second is the Fritz, which is open to students majoring in the humanities and social sciences. GO! and Fritz Scholarship awards range between $2,000 and $5,000 for each recipient.
Tacoma News Tribune / Associated Press | 11/21/11
Two University of Washington students are among 32 Rhodes Scholars named Sunday. They are Byron D. Gray of Post Falls, Idaho, and Cameron W. Turtle of Pullman.
Chronicle of Higher Education | 11/20/11
The 32 American winners of Rhodes scholarships for 2012 were announced on Saturday. The University of Washington had two winners.
The Daily | 4/21/11
Daily writer Lauren Kronebusch share some of the student Q & A with Pulitzer Prize Awardee poet Philip Levine. Levine was visiting the UW as part of the UW Common Book events.
The Daily | 12/6/11
Profile of Honors Program writer-in-residence Frances McCue that focuses on Richard Hugo House. Hugo House is a literary arts center co-founded by McCue.
The Daily | 11/23/11
Seniors Byron Gray and Cameron Turtle could not convince their moms they had won the Rhodes Scholarship. Gray and Turtle were able to put the UW on the map as the only public university with more than one student winning the scholarship.
Wall Street Journal | 1/22/11
Wall Street Journal columnist Carl Bialik writes about college students’ meager gains in critical-thinking skills. Catharine Beyer, research scientist in the Office of Educational Assessment, is quoted.
UW 360 | April 2011
Learn about UAA’s Dream Project which pairs students with mentors to instill the dream of higher education in low-income high schools. Video.
The Daily | 10/19/11
The Dream Project is determined to reach out to more high-school juniors and seniors as it implements an innovative plan to aid the greatest number of students possible. The new approach, called “saturation” by Dream Project leaders, involves working with an entire graduating class.
UW Today | 2/23/11
The Bonderman Travel Fellowship Fifteen Year Anniversary audio slideshow earned a Bronze in the annual District VIII competition of the Council for the Advancement and Support of Education (CASE). The piece was produced by Kirsten Atik, Filiz Efe, Brook Kelly, Erika Kreger, Suzanne Mercier, Helene Obradovich and Meredith Wisti.
The Daily | 2/3/11
The Office of Educational Assessment (OEA) is looking into altering how course evaluations are proctored and how the data they produce are made available to students.
The Daily | 5/17/11
The winners of the Bonderman Fellowship were announced last week. Seven UW undergraduate honors students and seven graduate students were selected.
UW Today | 3/31/11
Four UW undergraduates have won Goldwater Scholarships, designed to provide a continuing source of highly qualified scientists, mathematicians and engineers by awarding scholarships to college students who intend to pursue careers in these fields.
Seattle Times | 2/20/11
The UW has numerous community-engagement programs, but seven are grouped together in the Center for Experiential Learning. At the heart of that group is the Carlson Leadership and Public Service Center, started 19 years ago with a grant from the Eddie Carlson family.
UW Today | 7/20/11
John Sahr is an excellent professor of electrical engineering and associate dean of undergraduate academic affairs. And he’s likely the first UW administrator to regularly play the Humans vs. Zombies Tag game with students.
UW 360 | April 2011
Profile of Manic Mouth Congress, UW’s slam poetry collective. Features Common Book student ambassadors, Manic Mouth Congress officers, and Honors students Shelby Handler and Katie McCorkell. Video.
TechFlash | 11/21/11
Two University of Washington students have been named Rhodes Scholars.
UW Today | 10/5/11
Though Feynman was a physicist, his lectures, as transcribed in the Common Book "The Meaning of It All," were not about physics. Subtitled “Thoughts of a Citizen Scientist,” the book takes on diverse matters, from the conflict between science and religion to the validity of faith healing and telepathy.
The Daily | 2/28/11
University of Washington students who have an interest in global health now have a minor designed for them. The minor was designed to complement students’ majors with a deeper foundation in global health study. UW administrators approved the creation of the minor last month due to increasing student interest in the subject. The UW Common Book is mentioned.
UW Today | 3/2/11
Fred Mednick was a teacher and then a school principal. In 2000, he founded Teachers Without Borders, and just like that, he became the director of a nongovernmental organization involved in international affairs. Now he’s teaching again — a seminar at the UW called Human Rights and Education, designed for students who are enrolled in the Pipeline Project.
The Daily | 11/23/11
The Weekender sat down with Wong and asked him to reflect on his past as a beginning writer, why he’s chosen to stay so loyal to the UW, and what his next adventures will be. Wong teaches in the Honors Program and is a former director of the program.
UW Today | 1/12/11
Vice Provost and Dean Ed Taylor reflects on Martin Luther King, Jr. and historical and contemporary moments of crisis.
Wall Street Journal | 1/21/11
Wall Street Journal columnist Carl Bialik expands on his column about college students’ meager gains in critical-thinking skills. Catharine Beyer, research scientist in the Office of Educational Assessment, is quoted.
Inside Higher Ed | 3/17/11
Understanding of the purpose of "early college" programs has grown muddled in recent years. Nancy Hertzog, director of the Robinson Center for Young Scholars, is quoted.
Inside Higher Ed | 11/21/11
Thirty-two American students were named Saturday as Rhodes Scholars. This year’s winners include two from the University of Washington.
ABC News / Associated Press | 11/20/11
The 32 American students chosen as Rhodes Scholars for 2012 include the UW’s Byron Gray and Cameron Turtle.
Bloomberg Businessweek | 11/20/11
The 32 U.S. recipients of one of the world’s most prestigious academic awards were named yesterday. The University of Washington had two scholars.
UW Today | 2/23/11
The UW’s Robinson Center for Young Scholars will offer summer programs for fifth- to 10th-grade students. Classes include intriguing topics such as "The Meaning of Life" and "Puget Sound 2050."
The Daily | 5/26/11
Profile of UW Honors student, Bonderman Fellow, and hip hop artist Sol Moravia-Rosenberg.
Wenatchee World | 4/14/11
The writing assignment was OK. The books they made were fun.
But what students in Vicki Kiefer’s fourth-grade class at Paschal Sherman Elementary School said they enjoyed most was spending time with the college kids who led the whole thing. Article about the Pipeline Project’s Alternative Spring Break program.
Pac-12 Blog, ESPN | 8/30/11
In the Pac-10, only Stanford and Washington are above average when it comes to football’s "Graduation Success Rate (GSR)," according to figures released this week by the NCAA.
King 5 News | 4/27/11
It’s never too late to turn your life around. One Tacoma native learned that through hard times. Brandon Stogsdill shares how he turned from a teen criminal to now a teen counselor with Sound Mental Health. Stogsdill is a Mary Gates Leadership Scholar alum.
U.S. News & World Report | 9/23/11
The Pacific Northwest is a panoramic playground of mountains, rivers, and wind farms, and this topographical wonderland plays an important role in student life—academic and otherwise—at these five schools. UAA Associate Dean Janice DeCosmo quoted.
Tacoma News Tribune | 3/28/11
Profile on UW alumnus Brandon Stogsdill, who earned a Mary Gates Leadership scholarship among other awards when he was a student.
The Daily | 11/20/11
Seniors Byron Gray and Cameron Turtle have been named two of this year’s Rhodes Scholars and will head to the University of Oxford at the end of next year.
Seattle Times | 11/21/11
Two University of Washington students have been named Rhodes scholars for 2012. Byron Gray and Cameron Turtle were selected from among 830 candidates nominated by their colleges and universities.
UW You Tube Channel | 2/8/11
Undergraduate researcher and Honors student Geoffrey Morgan visits China as part of a year-long study abroad of sustainability practices.
The Daily | 1/25/11
The Dream Project received a $2,000 donation from Bonneville International and the Seattle Seahawks. The donation is part of a monthly appreciation program by Bonneville Seattle Radio to highlight charities in Seattle.
The Seattle Times | 10/22/11
On Saturday, 10/22/11, more than 150 area high-school seniors went to a workshop hosted by the UW’s Dream Project to get an edge in the application process for big, national scholarships.
KIRO radio | 1/21/11
The University of Washington’s Dream Project is making college a reality for thousands of high school students who never thought it would be possible.
The Daily | 6/29/11
The UW offers two scholarships specifically for students going abroad. The Global Opportunities (GO!) Scholarship and the Fritz Undergraduate Scholarship both award between $2,000 and $5,000 to each recipient.
UW Today | 11/21/11
Byron Gray and Cameron Turtle, University of Washington seniors, are among 32 Rhodes Scholars just named for 2012. The UW is the only public university in the nation with more than one new scholar.
Seattle Times | 11/7/11
A team of UW undergrads won the World Championship in synthetic biology at an annual competition at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. One of the students, Liz Stanley, is also a Washington Research Foundation scholar.
Seattle Times | 5/20/11
About 900 University of Washington undergraduate students came together Friday for the school’s Undergraduate Research Symposium, sharing the kind of cutting-edge research and novel thinking they’ve done during their college years.
The Daily | 5/10/11
Washington Secretary of State Sam Reed visited the university to speak at the UW Center of Experiential Learning’s (EXP) Spring Celebration of Service and Leadership, as part of his annual spring tour of college campuses statewide to promote civil engagement in young adults. The event honored more than 100 UW students for their participation in community service.
UW Today | 2/18/11
The votes are in, the judges have spoken and winners have been chosen in the 2011 UW Pocketmedia Film Festival. Entries in the film festival had to be two minutes or less and feature the Common Book in some way.
U Week | 9/30/10
Chantel Prat was nervous. She was spending her first full week on the UW campus. Prat is not a student, but a new assistant professor of psychology. Luckily she got help in the weeklong Faculty Fellows Program, designed to help new faculty members get oriented and learn more about their teaching role.
U Week | 8/19/10
Fifteen UW alumni and students have been awarded Fulbright U.S. Student Program scholarships, joining the more than 1,500 U.S. citizens who will travel abroad for the 2010-11 academic year through the Fulbright Student Program. This number of recipients sets an institutional record for the largest number of UW undergraduate Fulbright awardees.
3/2/10 | The Daily
Menon and Liu are two of the 35 students who joined the UW Academy this year, dropping out of high school after 10th grade and forgoing their high school diplomas to enroll at the UW two years early. The UW Academy is a program offered by the Halbert and Nancy Robinson Center for Young Scholars, which identifies and serves the needs of highly gifted pre-college and college students.
U Week | 6/3/10
This is the time of year that the University of Washington honors some of its best and brightest. Awards are given to honor outstanding teachers, staff, mentors and those engaged in public service. There are also awards for students, alumni and friends of the University who have distinguished themselves. On June 10, 2010 all these special people will be honored at a formal ceremony hosted by President Mark Emmert at 3:30 p.m. in Meany Hall. Here, we introduce you to the people behind the accomplishments. The Teaching Academy facilitates the teaching awards.
The Daily | 3/31/10
Each year, UAA’s Office of Educational Assessment surveys first-year (freshmen, 19 and younger) and senior students. The information gathered influences curriculum and aims to improve learning while comparing similar information from other schools. The Daily reports on select responses from students enrolled at the UW in both fall 2008 and spring 2009.
The Daily | 12/6/10
The Robinson Center for Young Scholars, located on the first floor of Guthrie Annex 2, houses the students of the Early Entrance Program (EEP) and the UW Academy, or the EEPers and Acads as they sometimes call themselves. They range in age from 12 to 17.
The Daily | 11/3/10
To help facilitate the initial transition, Lillian Dubiel was paired with a former transfer student through the transfer-orientation program. Transfer Orientations and Transfer Interest Groups — or “TrIGs” — are two programs to help students joining the university midway through their college careers.
The Daily | 1/14/10
Mary Gates Scholar and UW alumna Rose Thornton has a goal. She wants “to communicate the ideals and practices of urban sustainability.” All she had to figure out was how to do it. The answer seemed obvious: reality TV.
U Week | 1/21/10
The University offers students many learning experiences, not all of them in the classroom. Internships, service learning and research with a faculty mentor are just some of the things students can do to add to the traditional "book learning." And to make all those things more accessible, Undergraduate Academic Affairs has gathered them into the Center for Experiential Learning. Part 1 of 4.
U Week | 3/4/10
Jesse Burk-Rafel, a senior honors student in bioengineering, was recently selected as a 2010 11 Luce Scholar. A native of Bainbridge Island and graduate of Bainbridge High School, Burk-Rafel is one of only 18 students nationwide to receive this scholarship.
The Daily | 2/19/10
An update on the progress of the Dream Project, a UW student-initiated high-school outreach program, was presented to the Board of Regents yesterday.
Seattle Times | 4/9/10
William Johnson will be known forever and all time as a Putnam Fellow. Johnson is an Honors student, Mary Gates Scholar, and presenter in the 2010 Undergraduate Research Symposium.
Seattle Times | 1/27/10
There are 700 students who pack professor Toby Bradshaw’s introductory biology class at the University of Washington, up from 400 students last year. It’s one example of how higher-education budget cuts are playing out in university classrooms across the state. Classroom Support Services’ clicker technology is mentioned.
U Week | 8/5/10
Profile of Jenee Myers Twitchell, undergraduate adviser for the minor in Education, Learning and Society, a doctoral student in the College of Education’s Educational Leadership and Policy Studies as well as co-founder of the Dream Project.
U Week | 2/11/10
The fourth and final article in U Week’s series on UAA’s Center for Experiential Learning covers the Mary Gates Endowment for Students, the Office of Merit Scholarships, Fellowships, and Awards, and the Global Opportunities Advisers.
The Daily | 2/25/10
Sophomores Gabbie Duncalf and Fitsum Misgano were taking a class about mixed race when they first learned about the organization Mixed. Ralina Joseph, professor of communications who participated in the UW Common Book discussion about Barack Obama’s "Dreams from My Father," is quoted.
U Week | 1/28/10
Little things can add up to a lot, and until Feb. 22 you can donate your change to Stand With Haiti, a special coin drive organized by the Combined Fund Drive to help earthquake relief efforts. The money raised will benefit Partners in Health, one of the largest nongovernmental health care providers in the country. Paul Farmer, founder of Partners in Health, was the subject of the 2006-07 UW Common Book, "Mountains Beyond Mountains."
U Week | 4/29/10
The Distinguished Teaching Awards Showcase gives everyone the chance to experience first-hand the UW’s best educators. Starting at 6:30 p.m. on May 7, three mini-classes will be taught by past and present Distinguished Teaching Award recipients, which is the University’s highest honor for teaching.
Columns | September 2010
While many of her classmates were relaxing on a sunny beach or catching up on sleep, UW sophomore Dawn Tuason spent last spring break in cool and rainy Forks, Washington. For a week, she helped a spirited group of third-graders write books about their dreams.
examiner.com | 9/23/10
examiner.com blogger re-caps some news stories about "You Are Never Where You Are" and adds context about critical reading and poetry.
The Daily | 10/6/10
Last autumn, 4,828 first-generation students enrolled at the University of Washington, a number that has been on the rise for a number of years. For this expanding population, adjusting to college life can be overwhelming. Grant Kollet, director of First Year Programs, is quoted.
The Daily | 1/19/10
These famous words of Martin Luther King Jr. were the motto for this year’s UW Martin Luther King Jr. Day of Service, yesterday. More than 1,400 UW students, staff and alumni joined together to volunteer in more than 70 projects happening in the greater Seattle area. All these efforts were coordinated by UW’s Carlson Leadership & Public Service Center, along with The United Way of King County Volunteer Center.
The Daily | 4/22/10
A panel discussing upcoming renovations to Mary Gates Hall convened yesterday to relay plans for the building’s new organization, which is designed to centralize student services. The renovations are intended to provide a central location for student services.
Columns Magazine | June 2010
Interview with 2002 grad and Mary Gates Scholar Max Hunter. Pursuing a career in academia—first at Harvard and now as a UW Ph.D. student and teaching fellow at Seattle Pacific University—Hunter has, of late, begun sharing his story. He recently gave a talk in the Veterans of Intercommunal Violence series at UW’s Clowes Center for the Study of Conflict and Dialogue, and is working on a pair of books.
NW Asian Weekly | 8/12/10
The Fulbright U.S. Student Program awarded scholarships to 11 University of Washington (UW) alumni who recently earned their undergraduate degrees. For the UW, this is the largest number of undergraduate Fulbright awardees.
The Daily | 2/9/10
Former Center for Experiential Learning employee, Jentery Sayers, was chosen as one of just nine students in the nation to receive the K. Patricia Cross Future Leaders Award from the Association of American Colleges and Universities (AAC&U).
Seattle Times | 12/6/10
Graduation rates at Washington’s public and private universities and colleges have been on a steady upswing over a six-year period that ended in 2008, and some administrators say it’s because the state’s high schools are doing a better job of preparing students for college. Ed Taylor, vice provost and dean, is quoted.
UW Today | 12/1/10
What does a philosopher, or a creative writer, have to say about an oil spill? That’s what a group of honors students have been finding out this quarter as they take Honors 100, the required first course in the new honors curriculum.
KIRO FM | 9/29/10
Parents take their freshman kids to college and it’s difficult to say goodbye. Universities are making the transition a little easier. KIRO Radio’s Ursula Reutin reports. Grant Kollet, director of First Year Programs, is interviewed.
The Daily | 2/9/10
Since its creation in the early 1970s, Books to Prisoners has answered thousands of letters from inmates each year. In 2009, the organization had its busiest year ever, receiving 12,000 requests for books — a jump from 10,000 the previous year — all of which were answered by volunteers. The Carlson Leadership & Public Service Center is mentioned.
New York Times | 8/26/10
Feature on Seattle’s Jazz scene includes acclaimed trumpeter Cuong Vu, UW professor and 2010 Distinguished Teaching Award recipient.
The Seattle Times | 10/22/10
Humans vs. Zombies Tag, or HvZT, is a complex game that sweeps through the UW campus every quarter. This fall, more than 900 students and two associate deans are playing. John Sahr, UAA associate dean quoted in the article, is one of two UW associate deans playing.
U Week | 5/13/10
Nearly 750 of the UW’s most talented and accomplished undergraduates will showcase their contributions to innovative and groundbreaking research at the Thirteenth Annual Undergraduate Research Symposium from noon to 5 p.m. Friday, May 21, in Mary Gates Commons.
The Daily | 10/6/10
Outside Kane Hall hangs a 60-ft-long banner marked with more than 5,000 signatures from new students that aims to define what it means to be a Husky. Displayed on the banner is the Husky Principles, a set of value guidelines for the UW community. Grant Kollet, director of First Year Programs, is quoted.
KING-TV NBC 5 | 9/27/10
4,500 incoming University of Washington freshman will be facing a 14-percent hike in tuition. The University says it was forced to raise tuition as state funding was cut. Ed Taylor is quoted.
The Daily | 2/24/10
While many students at the UW learn about other countries in a classroom setting, students in a Task Force class from the Jackson School of International Studies were given the unique opportunity to apply their studies firsthand on a trip to Guatemala this month. Honors student Geoffrey Morgan and Dream Project member and Honors student Sam Lim are quoted.
U Week | 1/28/10
The Pipeline Project is part of the Center for Experiential Learning. It’s one of three programs that aim to connect UW students with the community through service (the other two are the Carlson Center and Jumpstart). Part 2 of 4.
Bellingham Herald | 3/12/10
Three Whatcom County students at the University of Washington received scholarships for research and leadership projects from the Mary Gates Endowment for Students.
The Daily News | 6/28/10
Longview resident Brittany Lichty has won a prestigious fellowship that is taking her to parts of Asia, Eastern Europe and Africa to learn more about refugees of national or regional conflicts. Lichty, 22, graduated this spring from the UW honors college with a bachelor’s degree in English literature and language and a minor in education.
The Daily | 5/14/10
Honors student Madeleine McKenna was announced as the new ASUW President, taking a 58.9-percent majority, with more than 780 votes over Beto Soto.
U Week | 7/22/10
When you’re harnessed to safety ropes and walking across a log dozens of feet in the air, you had better trust the folks who are spotting you from below. Thankfully, trust and team-building exercises are right at the heart of Outdoor Adventure, a set of summer experiences offered to new UW students by First Year Programs, in addition to the standard college orientation all incoming freshmen receive.
U Week | 11/10/10
Nancy Hertzog had one heck of a first day teaching elementary school: one of her students pulled the fire alarm and then vanished — later he was found hitchhiking by the assistant superintendent — as fire and police forces descended on the school. Profile of Nancy Hertzog, new director of the Robinson Center for Young Scholars.
Seattle P-I | 8/3/10
If cloud coverage cooperates, the Puget Sound region might get to see an aurora borealis Tuesday night, according to astronomers. For the best chance of seeing the aurora, UW professor and UAA associate dean John Sahr recommends getting out of the city and up to a higher elevation.
Q13 Fox News | 8/4/10
Scientists said there was a chance the aurora borealis could make an appearance in Washington tonight. But haze and smoke from the Canadian wildfires put a damper on the celestial show. UAA associate dean John Sahr is quoted.
Real Change News | 8/18/10
Interview with Frances McCue about her book "The Car That Brought You Here Still Runs." McCue is writer-in-residence in the University Honors Program and served on the selection committee of the 2010 UW Common Book, and wrote the introduction to it.
U Week | 1/14/10
UAA Vice Provost and Dean Ed Taylor reflects on Martin Luther King Jr.‘s life and the need to recognize the makings of greatness in today’s students.
U Week | 7/8/10
Twice a week during summer quarter the UW’s First Year Programs offers a one-day orientation for the parents of students who have been newly admitted to the University. The program comes on the second day of student orientation, but is entirely separate. It’s planned, says First Year Programs Director Grant Kollet, as the groundwork for a partnership.
The Missoulian | 5/3/10
For years, Seattle writer Frances McCue followed the outsized footprints of Richard Hugo, Montana’s most famous poet, as he wrote his way around the West. Her journey is chronicled in a new book, "The Car That Brought You Here Still Runs." McCue is writer-in-residence in the Honors Program.
UW Today | 11/17/10
How do you engage people with a poem? Speak it, sing it, scream it, scrawl it. Discuss it, argue over it, dance to it — anything to launch the words off the printed page and into the world. Story focuses on Anis Bawarshi’s class using the Common Book and a student-initiated flash mob inspired by the class.
The Daily | 9/29/10
Once freshmen have read the common book, the hope is that it will introduce and connect them to the community while also strengthening engagement with the book’s themes. In past years, the book has been integrated into classes and Freshman Interest Groups with guest speakers and other related events.
The Daily | 1/13/10
Feature on two creative writing undergraduates and Honors alumna Natalie McNabb who is also pursuing publication.
Seattle Times | 5/14/10
Madeleine McKenna, the 22-year-old daughter of Attorney General Rob McKenna, this week followed in her father’s footsteps by winning election as student-body president of University of Washington. Madeleine McKenna is an Honors student and Rob McKenna is an alumnus of the Honors Program.
Sammamish Review | 7/18/10
Twenty thousand dollars, eight months, six countries and two world regions all add up to one big trip. These are the stipulations that Autumn Cutter, of Sammamish, was given for the Bonderman Travel Fellowship. Starting in January 2011, recent University of Washington graduate Cutter will spend at least eight months traveling the world.
U Week | 10/28/10
The UW has thousands of class sections filling hundreds of rooms every day, all quarter, all year. How are all those lecture and lab classes scheduled? Classroom Support Services’ Roberta Hopkins is quoted.
U Week | 5/20/10
Shakespeare’s magic is transplanted to the UW campus in A U-Dubber Night’s Dream, opening May 26 in the Jones Playhouse, with previews May 23 and 25. It’s a production that has been three and a half years in the making, and although it is under the auspices of the School of Drama, many people across campus have been involved. Ed Taylor, UAA’s dean and vice provost, has an acting role in the production.
Columns Magazine | December 2010
During a recent drizzly Saturday afternoon, UW senior Audrey Djunaedi encouraged Seattle middle school students visiting the Marine Life Center in Bellingham to get to know the plants and animals living at our shores. Audrey is a former participant in Alternative Spring Break.
The Daily | 11/4/10
FIGs are just one of the many first-year resources on campus to help incoming students transition into the college environment. The program was created 15 years ago to help shrink a campus of more than 40,000. While they are optional, FIGs give students with similar interests the chance to mingle.
U Week | 1/14/10
Zachary Draper, the second of six authors of a research paper published in the peer-reviewed Astrophysical Journal, is just a sophomore, and his contributions were key to the work. Zachary received an Undergraduate Research Conference Travel Award from the Undergraduate Research Program.
The Daily | 6/30/10
“Common” doesn’t always equate to “thematic.” And the 2010-11 UW Common Book, You Are Never Where You Are, just goes to show. The collection of poems is a departure from the traditional Common Book formula, for in its text you will not find a running storyline. You won’t even find an overarching theme. The book aims to unite students under the umbrella of written and spoken word; this year it’s about genre first and theme second. This marks UW’s first year selecting poetry as a medium.
The Daily News | 9/21/10
Sam Sudar, ’09, Honors alumnus, had the pleasant choice of deciding between the Bonderman Fellowship and a Gates Cambridge Scholarship as a next step. He chose to do both, delaying his studies at Cambridge in order to take advantage of the travel grant, which he regarded as a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity.
U Week | 1/14/10
The Office of the President recently announced the freshman, sophomore and junior medalists for 2008-9, awards that are based on a student’s overall academic record and not merely the grade point average. All three are students in the Honors Program.
U Week | 4/22/10
Senior Angelica-Mae Corral is one of more than 120 UW undergraduates who will be presenting at this year’s Spring Celebration of Service and Leadership on April 28. The annual event showcases student work that enriches and benefits local non-profit organizations, schools and campus programs.
U Week | 3/11/10
The UW’s Halbert and Nancy Robinson Center for Young Scholars offers fifth- through 10th grade students a unique combination of vigorous academic work and summer fun in two summer programs.
Crosscut | 7/20/10
Frances McCue, a Seattle writer and poet and founding director of Hugo House from 1996-2006, spent more than 13 years visiting Hugo’s friends and family and the "triggering towns" that inspired his poems. She wrote 13 essays about those encounters. Her collection of essays, "The Car That Brought You Here Still Runs," is excerpted with permission from University of Washington Press.
U Week | 1/7/10
Residential FIGs are an offshoot of First Year Programs’ FIG program, which is designed to offer new students advising, resources and support. A Residential FIG takes it one step further because all of the students have the opportunity to live on the same floors of Lander Hall.
The Daily | 4/9/10
Senior William Johnson didn’t expect to beat his sixth-place score from last year in a national math competition, but he recently became the first UW student to win the competition since it began 72 years ago. Johnson is an Honors student, Mary Gates Scholar and presenter in the 2010 Research Symposium.
Montana Public Radio | 6/3/10
The Write Question is a program that explores the world of writing and publishing in the Western United States. In this episode, Frances McCue, Honors Program writer-in-residence, discusses her new book The Car That Brought You Here Still Runs.
The Daily | 2/2/10
Last school year, 552 students withdrew, with another 130 students withdrawing during this past autumn quarter. Students can withdraw for a variety of reasons, including financial, family or medical-related, and military commitments. Gateway Center adviser Peg Cheng is quoted.
The Oregonian | 5/29/10
Frances McCue takes another line from "Degrees of Gray in Philipsburg" for the title of her fascinating new book. "The Car That Brought You Here Still Runs: Revisiting the Northwest Towns of Richard Hugo" is a deeply felt meditation on how and where Hugo created his poetry. McCue’s book is greatly enhanced by the photography of Mary Randlett, who saw what Hugo did in the thickets of the Duwamish River and a restaurant in Cataldo, Idaho, and the weathered bleachers at a school in Dixon, Mont. McCue is the Honors Program writer-in-residence.
Columns Magazine | December 2010
“What Work Is” was featured in the 2010 UW Common Book, You Are Never Where You Are. Since 2006 the UW has chosen one book for all freshmen to read. This year’s book marks two major firsts: It is the first Common Book to focus on poetry and the first original anthology—the 15 poems in the book appear together nowhere else.
The Daily | 11/18/10
“This is not a heart / it’s a volume knob,” UW senior Jillian Skeen read into a microphone yesterday afternoon in Red Square as she led a group of students in a flash mob inspired by this year’s Common Book.
U Week | 5/6/10
The first Jen Caldwell Award will be given to UW students Lydia Ansari and Mariah Ortiz at a celebration of the first anniversary of the Center for Human Rights. Caldwell was an Honors student and Bonderman Fellow. Ansari is also an Honors student.
U Week | 6/3/10
Ask a Bonderman travel fellow where she is going — or where he has been — and settle in for a fascinating conversation. You’ll get a long list of exotic places from Papua New Guinea to Bosnia to Iceland to Botswana, along with invaluable travel tips. You’ll learn how to lock your backpack to your bed at night to prevent theft and what to do if your credit card is swiped. Each year, seven undergraduate students and seven UW graduate students are awarded Bonderman Travel Fellowships — worth $20,000 each. Their charge is to simply travel, learn, explore and grow.
The Daily | 9/6/10
The Daily’s Welcome Edition features a story on the 2010 UW Common Book, "You Are Never Where You Are."
The Daily’s Double Shot | 10/22/10
The second season kicks off with Breanna Lai’s look into the pages of this year’s common book, "You Are Never Where You Are." Selection committee members Christopher Campbell, Shelby Handler, and Frances McCue are interviewed.
The Daily | 11/15/10
The UW Dream Project plans to expand its effort to join UW student mentors with high-school mentees threefold, after receiving a nearly $1 million grant from the Bill and Melinda Gates foundation this summer. The Dream Project pairs about 300 UW student mentors with high-school juniors and seniors to help guide them through the college application process.
Seattle P-I | 9/22/10
The roughly 5,500 University of Washington freshmen attending orientation this month are receiving a slim book titled "You Are Never Where You Are."
U Week | 3/4/10
When Rob McKenna arrived at the UW in 1980, he joined the University Honors Program. His daughter, Madeleine McKenna, is now in Honors, majoring in economics and international studies like her father, but the program is considerably different from the one he knew. And starting next fall, Honors will launch an updated curriculum.
UW Today | 11/17/10
The UW has received a $1 million grant from the Amgen Foundation to provide hands-on laboratory experience to about 100 undergraduate students over the next four years, through the Amgen Scholars Program. The Amgen Scholars Program is administered through the Undergraduate Research Program.
U Week | 3/4/10
The UW has been named to the 2009 President’s Higher Education Community Service Honor Roll, the highest federal recognition a college or university can receive for its commitment to volunteering, service-learning and civic engagement. The UW is the only public, four-year institution in Washington state to receive the recognition this year.
MyNorthwest.com | 9/29/10
It’s become something of a tradition for universities to choose a book for the entire freshman class to read. The University of Washington took the road less traveled this year by going with a book of poems, called "You Are Never Where You Are."
U Week | 4/1/10
William Johnson, who is majoring in mathematics and computer science, was named a Putnam Fellow, placing among the top five out of more than 4,000 students who competed this year. Johnson is an Honors student, Mary Gates Scholar, and will present at the 2010 Research Symposium.
NW Asian Weekly | 5/21/10
Nearly 750 of the University of Washington’s most accomplished undergraduates showcased their contributions to innovative and ground-breaking research at the 13th Annual Undergraduate Research Symposium. Particularly notable was the collaboration between UW students and students at Tohoku University in Japan. Some Japanese students traveled to the UW to present their work.
U Week | 4/29/2010
Biofuels may be part of the answer to global warming, but producing them has led to environmental problems and abuses of human rights, according to a report written by a UW group that investigated in Guatemala. Honors student Geoff Morgan is quoted.
U Week | 7/22/10
Seven UW students have been chosen for prestigious national scholarships this year. Two have captured Morris K. Udall Scholarships, one will receive a David L. Boren Scholarship, while four are being honored as Barry M. Goldwater Scholars.
U Week | 4/8/10
A new study shows that UW undergraduates are doing a great deal of research as a normal part of their undergraduate programs — more than investigators anticipated. Students in the study reported that almost half of the courses they took after their freshman year had required research, most of it concentrated in upper-level courses. The study was conducted by the Office of Educational Assessment.
U Week | 2/4/10
Alyssa Sheih has been involved with undergraduate research since the day that she started at UW. As an incoming freshman, she was a NASA Space Grant recipient. With that scholarship came the opportunity for hands-on research. Part 3 of 4 in a series describing UAA’s Center for Experiential Learning.
Crosscut.com | 9/22/10
A University of Washington committee took a brave step, deciding that this year’s common book for all incoming freshmen would be a volume of poetry.
The Daily | 3/11/10
Senior Angel Corral is one of the almost 6,000 UW students who participated in volunteer work and service learning during the 2008-09 academic year and helped earn the university a place on the 2009 President’s Higher Education Community Service Honor Roll.
The Daily | 12/1/10
There were interruptions to classes three out of the four weeks in November, both planned and unplanned. Ed Taylor is quoted.
The Daily | 10/21/10
Whatever you do, just don’t call these poets and their work ordinary. As each artist performs his or her piece, particular attention is paid to inflection of volume and tone. This is poetry with pizazz. Perhaps sitting in the audience is something that must be experienced to fully comprehend the art of it. Feature on Manic Mouth Congress, UW Slam Poetry group. Shelby Handler, Sam Kolodezh, and Javonna Arriaga served on the Common Book selection committee.
KOMO News | 11/3/09
As a child in Kenya, UW alumnus Peter Kithene saw what happens when there is no health care or medicine for miles. It appears the tragedy left a heavy impression on Kithene. The orphaned boy is now a man on a mission, opening medical clinics in remote villages. Kithene is a Mary Gates Leadership Scholar, Munro Public Service Award recipient, and Edward E. Carlson Student Leadership Awardee.
University Week | 8.20.09
When doors of collaboration and mutual understanding are opened, good things happen — connections are made and lessons learned that can last a career and improve the work of students and faculty alike. Such is happily the case with the UW’s Summer Institute for the Arts & Humanities, now in its eighth year.
The Daily | 4.28.09
1973 Distinguished Teaching Awardee Professor Jon Bridgman is the subject of this Daily feature.
The Daily | 4.23.09
Mary Wenderoth, a senior lecturer in biology and co-director of UAA’s Teaching Academy, felt that connecting students’ names and faces was an opportunity to encourage student-teacher interaction inside — and outside — of the classroom. The UW recently implemented a program that allows teachers to access student rosters — and students’ photos — online.
University Week | 8/6/09
Gateway Center adviser Kay Balston was named Adviser of the Year by the UW’s Association of Professional Advisers and Counselors. It’s an honor given to just one of the University’s many advisers each year.
U Week | 5.7.09
From impacts of budget cuts to best practices in reaching students through social media, academic advisers, student services staff and faculty from colleges and universities around the state will have a lot to discuss at the 21st annual Community College & University of Washington Advising Conference on May 8 in the HUB. Undergraduate adviser Megan McConnell quoted.
U Week | 4.30.09
On May 6, more than 100 UW undergraduates will showcase their civic engagement projects that benefit the local nonprofit organizations, schools, and campus programs with which they volunteer. The 18th Annual Spring Celebration of Service and Leadership happens from 4 to 6 p.m. in Mary Gates Hall.
University Week | 12/3/09
How are you with a hammer? How about a paint brush, a broom or some cleaning products? Whatever your skill level, there’s a local agency that needs your help on the ninth annual Martin Luther King Jr. Day of Service, which is Monday, Jan. 18, 2010. The Carlson Center and United Way of King County coordinate the annual MLK, Jr. Day of Service.
The Daily | 3.31.09
Some UW students returned from spring break with suntans. Some returned with sunburns. Participants in Alternative Spring Break (ASB), however, arrived back on campus perhaps as sun-deprived as when they departed — but no skin tone could match the grins on their faces or the sense of fulfillment in their hearts.
5.20.09 | KOMO News 4
Cell phones are so much a part of our daily lives, some of us practically sleep with them. But did you know these constant companions can actually start a fire? Or explode? OK, it’s pretty rare – really rare – but it happens. Associate Dean John Sahr quoted. (video)
U Week | 5.28.09
Featured in Class Notes: EDUC 402: YouTube Goes to College: Documenting Excellent Teaching and Learning on the UW Campus, taught by Eugene Edgar, professor in the College of Education; Mary Pat Wenderoth, senior lecturer in biology; and Scott Macklin, chief technology officer of the College of Education. Mary Pat Wenderoth is co-director of the Teaching Academy.
The Daily | 2.9.09
For students trying to find a way to pay for college, recent news has been bleak: state funding for the UW will be cut, tuition will likely increase, endowment funds are losing money. But thanks to the UW Dream Project, incoming students can get the help they need when it comes to achieving the dream of attending college.
U Week | 5.14.09
Undergraduate Academic Affairs, the Graduate School and the UW Libraries are teaming up to create a new Center for Teaching and Learning at the University that will draw on the expertise of many units on campus.
The Daily | 6.3.09
A mentoring program called Husky Mentors will be making its debut during the 2009-2010 school year to be a resource to help alleviate some of this stress. It is the brainchild of ASUW Vice President-elect and Madeleine McKenna and Dawg Daze volunteer coordinator Tim Harris, both of whom have worked overtime with university officials since winter quarter to make the program a reality. McKenna and Harris are both Honors students.
The Daily | 2.4.09
The economy’s precarious state has affected people of all economic backgrounds, making job positions competitive and scarce. It may have also sparked a wave of positive attitude throughout the community. Matt Wojciakowski of the Carlson Leadership & Public Service Center is quoted.
NBC Nightly News | 7/14/09
NBC Nightly News interviews the UW’s Dr. Roger Rosenblatt and medical students Brian Rezvani and Meghan O’Connell about the current shortage of primary care doctors. Rezvani is a Mary Gates Scholar.
King 5 | 1.29.09
The long-range forecast is calling for a storm—in 2012—that is expected to interfere with our daily lives. Associate Dean John Sahr featured for his research in solar magnetic activity.
University Week | 1.8.09 The UW recently announced the freshman, sophomore and junior medalists for 2007-8, awards that are based on a student’s overall academic record. Congratulations Honors student freshman Karlyn Kurokawa, sophomore and Mary Gates Scholar Chad Klumb, and Mary Gates Scholar, Honors student, and Goldwater Scholar junior Pavan Vaswani.
The Daily | 4.13.09
Jumpstart is a national non-profit organization based in Boston. The program at the UW (housed within UAA’s Center for Experiential Learning), which is one of 74 across the United States, boasts about 90 corps members, the title given to student volunteers who devote their entire academic year to a classroom in one of five Head Start preschools.
The Daily | 4.22.09
Former UW linebacker Ink Aleaga focused on only two things in high school: sports and college. He’s still involved in both now, but in a very different sense. As an academic adviser in the Student Athlete Academic Services (SAAS) department. UAA Vice Provost & Dean Ed Tyalor is quoted.
The Daily | 7/7/09
Story about Seattle’s all-ages music scene highlights the Vera Project, started by Mary Gates Scholars James Keblas and Shannon Stewart. Honors student and musician April Nishimura quoted.
ABC Nightline News | 4.15.09
Inside UAA’s Robinson Center, providing an innovative education for some of the world’s most brilliant kids. (video)
Apple.com | December 2009
Apple profiles the University of Washington’s iPhone app. Grant Kollet, director of First Year Programs, is quoted.
U Week | 4.23.09
It’s the time of year when major scholarships are announced and student futures are planned. The Office of Merit Scholarships, Fellowships and Awards, part of the Center for Experiential Learning in Undergraduate Academic Affairs, has announced student winners of the prestigious Barry M. Goldwater, Morris K. Udall and Beinecke scholarships.
The Daily | 10/22/09
Honors Program teacher Taso Lagos writes this guest column on study abroad. Study abroad used to be exotic; only the rich, the elite or the globally minded used to travel overseas for college credit. Now, it’s a regular feature of college life. All those pictures of your friends in exotic locations on Facebook didn’t just happen by accident.
University Week | 12/10/09
Who would be on your list of the 100 greatest Americans? A group of nine honors students spent fall quarter thinking about and debating that question, and on Dec. 9 they revealed their picks.
Columns Magazine | September 2009
Using Twitter, blogs, laptops, podcasts and other virtual tools, the UW is making the classroom experience better and easier—no matter where you are. UAA’s Classroom Support Services is included in this feature.
The Daily | 10/7/09
Honors student Jill Colleymore is in her final year as an outside hitter for Huskies volleyball. A double-major in honors psychology and honors digital arts, Collymore somehow finds time to accomplish various activities amid her extremely busy schedule. With Collymore’s curious mind, college was a perfect place to expand on her passions.
The Daily News Online | 2.26.09
Gates Cambridge Scholar Sam Sudar is featured in his hometown paper.
University Week | 1.8.09
While students were taking a break over the holidays, the employees of Classroom Support Services’ Information Technology Group were hard at work beginning what will be a transformation of 14 classrooms in Mary Gates Hall. When they finish at the end of summer, all those rooms will be equipped for state-of-the-art screencasting, and five of them will also support videoconferencing.
The Daily | 11/18/09
Mary Gates Hall (MGH) is set to undergo restructuring, which is expected to streamline advising services and bring diversity to the center of campus.
Seattle Times | 10/29/09
A new University of Washington program will clear the way to a three-year undergraduate degree for students who arrive on campus with 45 credits, but the university has no plans to hurry students who would prefer to take four years to complete their bachelor’s degree. Ed Taylor, dean and vice provost of Undergraduate Academic Affairs, is quoted.
The Chronicle of Higher Education | 8/3/09
Article about the University of Minnesota’s new faculty orientation program, inspired by Faculty Fellows in UAA’s Teaching Academy.
U Week | 4.23.09
There are many organizations open to the UW faculty and staff. Some have been around for years and some are new. Some are structured groups with officers and committees; some are much more informal. Peg Cheng, an academic adviser in the Gateway Center, introduces the Asian and Pacific Islander American Faculty and Staff Association.
The Daily | 1.16.2009
Monday marks the UW’s eighth annual Martin Luther King, Jr. Day of Service, an opportunity for UW students, faculty and alumni to reflect on King’s call for service and respond to his request through participation in community service projects.
The Daily | 3.13.09
This spring break, Bobby Chien won’t be boarding a plane bound for south of the border to sip icy piña coladas and perfect her suntan.
Rather, Chien’s destination is a bit less exotic: She will be spending the week of March 23-27 volunteering in Tonasket, Wash. as part of the UW Pipeline Project’s Alternative Spring Break.
5.7.09 | U Week
Nearly 700 UW undergraduates will showcase their contributions to innovative and groundbreaking research at the 12th Annual Undergraduate Research Symposium. The symposium is from noon to 5 p.m. Friday, May 15, in Mary Gates Commons, and is organized by UW’s Undergraduate Research Program, which facilitates research experiences for scholars in all academic disciplines.
University Week | 1.29.09
Members of the Teaching and Learning Consortium will host a table at the club from noon to 1:30 p.m. on the first Wednesday and Thursday of each month. The next discussions will be on Feb. 4 and 5. They invite anyone interested to stop by and chat. Mary Pat Wenderoth of the Teaching Academy is quoted.
University Week | 8/6/09
The Amgen Scholars program grows the next generation of biomedical researchers by immersing the best students in the laboratory of a top-flight researcher who provides them not just a research experience but becomes a mentor, and have them present their research findings to their peers at a national meeting and local sessions as well.
Columns Magazine | 6/16/09
The seven recipients of this year’s Distinguished Teaching Awards represent the broadest range of disciplines, from English to maxillofacial surgery. But they all have one thing in common: the ability to hold their students spellbound.
U Week | 5.21.09
Nonstudents will have the opportunity to learn what’s going on in the UW’s classrooms these days during the 2009 Distinguished Teaching Awards Showcase, slated for 7 to 9 p.m. Thursday, May 28, in Mary Gates Hall. The showcase will feature three past winners of the Distinguished Teaching Award conducting mini-classes, followed by a panel discussion with them and a few other award winning teachers.
U Week | 4.30.09
Now, when faculty now go to MyUW, click on Teaching and then on the "Class List" icon, the list of students in each of their classes is displayed along with photos. All 7,543 course sections on the three campuses now contain photos with the class list. The Office of Educational Assessment and Mary Pat Wenderoth of the Teaching Academy played integral roles in this innovation.
5.18.09 | The Daily
Nearly 700 undergraduates flooded Mary Gates Hall Friday, showcasing their findings at the 12th annual UW Undergraduate Research Symposium held by the university’s Undergraduate Research Program (URP).
University Week | 2.12.09
Undergraduate Honors student Sam Sudar is the most recent UW student selected for the prestigious Gates Cambridge Scholarship.
University Week | 3.12.09
The University will honor 23 individuals and one team of two this year as part of the annual Universitywide awards program. The awards honor outstanding performance in teaching, mentoring, librarianship, public service and staff support.
University Week | 1.8.09
Make Martin Luther King, Jr. Day a day of service and volunteer in area nonprofits. "The Day of Service is a nice way for UW employees and students to come together in a different way," says adviser Kay Balston. Sign up today!
Columns | December 2009
Profile of UW junior Russell Monteiro, who volunteered with the Urban Wilderness Project through the Pipeline Project’s Inner Pipeline Seminars.
UW on You Tube | Fall 2009
UW students describe their experiences in research with faculty and graduate student mentors and their involvement in the annual Undergraduate Research Symposium, largest of its kind. (video)
Seattle P-I | 3.12.09
Sol Hashemi and Jason Hirata’s two-man show, "Please Stand By; Stand By Me," at Punch Gallery is a quietly smart exhibit. The two-part title is apt. "Please stand by" is an old-fashioned phrase used to apologize for technical difficulties, while "Stand by Me" is a 1986 film about friendship among teen boys.
Hashemi and Hirata are students in the UW Honors Program.
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.
The Daily | 04/10/08
As recently as four years ago, professors looking for audience response technology were responsible for it themselves.
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.
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.
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.
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.
University Week | 12.4.08
Freshmen learn by doing in a seminar about event planning. And their final project? Planning and executing their own event.
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.
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.
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.
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.
University Week | 12.4.08
Last January, 1,200 members of the UW community spent the Martin Luther King Jr. Day of Service helping others. The next Day of Service is Jan. 19, 2009, and there are 57 agencies awaiting your help.
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.
Seattle P-I | 12.4.08
Honors student Jill Colleymore, a junior double major in psychology and digital arts, also plays on the UW volleyball team. She is an accomplished pianist and writes poetry in her spare time.
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.
The Seattle PI | 02/22/08
Arielle Ross stares vacantly out of a black-and-white photograph, a cigarette clamped between her fingers.
Seattle PI | 9.25.08
Seattle PI | 05/09/08
Sam Lim collects scholarships like some students amass parking tickets.
HeraldNet | 6.25.08
Profile of Alexander Neale, 15, Snohomish student entering the UW through the Robinson Center’s Academy of Young Scholars.
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.
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.
The Daily | 12.4.08
Profile of service learning course supported by Carlson Center. Course is on human rights and in it 32 students from Waseda University in Tokyo watch films like "The Kite Runner," read short fiction stories, and are required to volunteer at service learning sites such as Teen Feed and the Boys & Girls Club.
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.
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."
The Daily | 9.29.08
The Devil’s Highway highlights issues involved in a Washington State lawsuit. Read the Daily feature on this lawsuit.
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.
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.
University Week | 9.25.08
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Teaching Academy Co-Director Mary Pat Wenderoth quoted.
Seattle P-I | 03/29/07
Global warming has been explored in political debates, news stories and this year’s Academy Award-winning documentary. Now the entire freshman class of the University of Washington will study the subject.
The Seattle Times | 02/16/07
Last fall the University of Washington embarked on an ambitious reading project — having every entry-level UW student read the same book (that would be a 5,000-member book club).
University Week | 10/11/07
Elizabeth Kolbert tells scary stories, the kind that stick in your head long after you’ve finished her book, Field Notes from a Catastrophe: Man, Nature, and Climate Change.
University Week | 05/10/07
For the people in a new performance at the UW, disrobing is more than taking off clothes. And though there won’t be any actual nudity in the show, there will be an exploration of the fears and blurred boundaries of young adulthood.
University Week | 03/01/07
For author Tracy Kidder, Mountains Beyond Mountains was all about a compelling story, the tale of Dr. Paul Farmer and his band of friends bent on ending world poverty both globally and one patient at a time.
The Seattle Times | 0618/07
Andrew Hsu has not yet been on a date or taken his driving test. But he does have three degrees — in neurobiology, biochemistry and chemistry.
University Week | 07/19/07
Kayanna Warren has traveled abroad and even lived a year in China. But this summer the UW alumna is seeing the continental United States from end to end in a biodiesel-fueled bus, both learning and teaching as she goes about environmentally friendly practices and Native American issues.
The Daily | 02/21/07
With Spring Break less than a month away, UW students are eagerly looking forward to a week of promoting positive change in the greater Seattle area.
The Daily | 04/10/07
Last week, UW senior Alula Asfaw was named a 2007 Harry S. Truman Scholarship recipient. The scholarship, worth $30,000, has a long application process, which Asfaw began last year.
The Seattle Times | 02/26/07
Author Tracy Kidder has lost count of the number of colleges around the country that have chosen his book, "Mountains Beyond Mountains," as a common text for the campus community.
The Seattle Times | 06/07/07
Willis Konick, looking a little like Groucho Marx without the cigar, asks a student to slap him. He prances from desktop to desktop. He rolls his arms wildly, screeching a little. And he lures one student into an elaborate discussion about moving with him to a place called "Easy Vista."
University Week | 02/14/07
James J. Clauss, professor and chairman of the Department of Classics at the UW, has been named director of the Honors Program.
The Daily | 10/18/07
More than 1,000 UW students and alumni attended a Common Book panel at 7 p.m. yesterday at Hec Edmundson Pavilion to discuss Field Notes from a Catastrophe, the latest book from award-winning journalist Elizabeth Kolbert.
The Daily | 02/28/07
Hundreds of people crammed into Kane 130 last night for “A Conversation with Tracy Kidder,” the author of Mountains Beyond Mountains, the UW’s Common Book.
The Daily | 04/04/07
Last week, the UW Undergraduate Academic Affairs department announced next year’s Common Book for incoming freshmen will be Field Notes from a Catastrophe: Man, Nature and Climate Change by Elizabeth Kolbert.
University Week | 05/16/07
Elise Saba, who will be receiving a bachelor’s degree in English, has been awarded a President’s Medal for scholarship as a transfer student — an award given to a student who entered the UW with at least 60 transfer credits from a Washington community college.
The Daily | 10/16/07
Elizabeth Kolbert, author of the second-annual UW common book, Field Notes from a Catastrophe, joins the freshmen class in a discussion on global climate change and her book tomorrow.
University Week | 03/29/07
It’s official: The next Common Book is Field Notes from a Catastrophe: Man, Nature, and Climate Change.
University Week | 11/29/0
University of Washington graduate student Peter Kithene has won $25,000 as a CNN Heroes honoree. Kithene, 25, was chosen one of six honorees out of 7,000 nominations sent in by CNN viewers in 93 countries.
UW News | 12/06/07
Jeffrey Eaton, a senior at the UW, has been selected as a Marshall scholar, one of the highest awards available to college graduates in the U.S. He and fellow UW student Graham Griffiths were finalists in the competition, which awards full scholarships for graduate study in England to about 40 American students annually.
The Seattle Times | 04/09/07
Remember Friday? The sun was out and the temperature rose into the 70s.
The Chronicle of Higher Education | 12/14/07
Chunda Zeng expected to study for a career in chemistry and physics. But then the freshman at the University of Washington signed up for the Dream Project.
U.S. News | 06/07/07
Many of next fall’s first-year college students have thrown their tasseled caps in the air and are ready to pick up the sunscreen and surfboards, but there may be another item to put in the beach bag: a book assigned by the university.
The Daily | 01/16/07
More than 1,200 people from the UW community gave up their day off from work and school yesterday to serve the community as part of the UW’s Martin Luther King Jr. Day of Service.
UW News| 12/07/07
University of Washington graduate student Peter Kithene has won $25,000 as a CNN Heroes Honoree. Kithene, 25, was chosen as one of six honorees out of 7,000 nominations sent in by CNN viewers in 93 countries.
King 5 News | 05/13/07
He was orphaned as a child in his native Kenya. Now, a University of Washington senior is honoring mothers in his village by building and running a medical clinic. Lori Matsukawa talks with Peter Kithene.
University Week | 05/16/07
Minh-An Nguyen, 21, majoring in biochemistry and chemistry, has been named a President’s Medalist — the outstanding four-year student in this year’s senior class on the basis of her overall academic record, including grades.
University Week | 06/21/07
Sandra McGowan was waiting to get her hair done when the woman who runs a beauty supply business nearby came running over. "Aren’t you the woman from ColorsNW?" she asked.
The Seattle Times | 05/06/07
Cathy Beyer just gave her students the complete opposite of a standardized test.
University Week | 08/16/07
When the Husky men’s basketball team heads to Greece Aug. 27 for a series of exhibition games, they’ll be traveling with Socrates. That’s because in their off-court time, they’ll take part in a classics class that focuses on the man who is often called the father of western philosophy.
Seattle PI | 08/23/07
Every once in awhile, Professor Jim Morrow teased his University of Washington math students by tossing out a truly advanced concept. The college kids were interested, yet most realized they wouldn’t be ready to tackle it for a few years. Except Nate Bottman.
HeraldNet | 06/20/07
Two of the biggest questions facing a new University of Washington branch campus are where it will go and what will be taught.
University Week | 09/27/07
Kiera Clarke, who earned a B.A. in Italian and minor in international studies at the UW in June, has received a scholarship worth as much as $300,000 for graduate studies.
Seattle PI | 05/30/07
Class of 2007, welcome to the real world. It may not turn out to be what you expect. Honors alumna Rula Green Gladden is featured.
The Daily | 05/18/07
Students and faculty will have a chance to learn about Cuban music since the fall of the Soviet Union, gender differences in engineering education and robots that detect wear in power cables, as Mary Gates Hall hosts the 10th annual Undergraduate Research Symposium today.
The Daily | 03/02/07
This afternoon, three UW students will receive extra appreciation for outstanding performance during their time here at the UW.
King 5 News | 06/18/07
Parkour is taking Seattle and the country by storm. The sport is part running, part jumping, and part climbing; and it’s definately turning heads. KING 5’s Lori Matsukawa reports
University Week | 05/31/07
Mona Pitre-Collins once swore she would never be a teacher like most of the members of her family. But life had other ideas. She taught for several years, and every job since then has been centered around students.
University Week | 05/10/07
Katharine Liang, a UW senior, initially got interested in medical research to help her mom, who because of myopic degeneration and glaucoma is legally blind. Now a neurobiology major, Liang studies biomaterials, as they are providing solutions such as artificial lenses and retinal implants.
University Week | 01/18/07
Students who entered college when they were 12 to 14 years old don’t fit the stereotype of unhappy "nerds" who are humorless, isolated misfits, according to a new study.
The Daily | 05/21/07
From the equality of women in Tanzania to the new Human Cytomegalovirus double-stranded RNA-binding proteins, students learned about a variety of topics at Friday’s Undergraduate Research Symposium in Mary Gates Hall.
University Week | 06/210/07
"UW undergraduates are global citizens. They understand, respect and learn from cultural differences; they recognize the interconnections and inequalities that define global life; and they think and act as responsible members of their global and local communities."
The Christian Science Monitor | 04/09/07
How do we know what college students really learn? A commission on higher education headed by US Secretary of Education Margaret Spellings has raised the issue of whether national standardized tests, such as the Collegiate Learning Assessment (CLA), can answer that question. Our research suggests they can’t.
Seattle PI | 07/25/07
Raised just outside Portland, 24-year-old Kayanna Warren has seen a lot of growth. The Pacific Northwest’s population has risen by about 4 million during this University of Washington alum’s life. Many new houses and businesses have been constructed right before her eyes.
University Week | 07/05/07
For years, academic advisers at the UW have been paid to advise students. Now, thanks to two new councils, they’re getting a chance to advise administrators, and each other.
University Week | 12/06/07
Jeffrey Eaton, a senior at the UW, has been selected as a Marshall scholar, one of the highest awards available to college graduates in the U.S. He and fellow UW student Graham Griffiths were finalists in the competition, which awards full scholarships for graduate study in England to about 40 American students annually.
University Week | 09/27/07
Last week the UW unveiled and dedicated a permanent exhibit honoring alumni who, as UW undergraduates, achieved prestigious recognition as Rhodes Scholars. Their accomplishments were recognized in remarks by President Mark Emmert, Undergraduate Academic Affairs Dean and Vice Provost Edward Taylor, and UW alum and Rhodes Scholar Bror Saxberg.
Seattle Times | 08/24/07
When you hear he bypassed high school to enter the University of Washington at 14, that he was named top scholar in a freshman class of 4,255 and that he’s just received another prestigious fellowship, it’s tempting to think: This stuff must come easy to him.
University Week | 10/23/07
The annual statewide hunt for Washington’s most talented fifth-through eighth-grade students is on again by the University of Washington.
Seattle PI | 0815/07
A University of Washington student has won a scholarship worth as much as $300,000 for graduate studies.
UW Office of News and Information | 03/14/07
Teaching middle-school children during Alternative Spring Break changed Nimisha Ghosh Roy’s life. She realized she wants to be a teacher, that she wants to teach physics and Earth science to middle school kids.
University Week | 05/03/07
They thought they had already had their proudest moment. But then this year they did even better.
Seattle PI | 08/26/07
In its usual meeting room, the University of Washington men’s basketball team launched into a heated debate. Not about the game. About Socrates. Honors Director Jim Clauss and his trip to Greece with the men’s basketball team.
Northwest Asian Weekly | 06/16/07
The Daily | 10/02/07
Ever thought about playing an active role on campus, but haven’t found an outlet on top of a growing workload? From lending a hand to preschool children to traveling and learning about the world, the UW is brimming with a plethora of volunteer opportunities for the next generous Husky to take up the initiative.
The Seattle Times | 01/19/07
Gov. Christine Gregoire has articulated a clear vision for the citizens of Washington state. President Emmert co-wrote this op-ed that discusses undergraduate education.
University Week | 01/18/07
When Charlene Reyes landed in New Orleans a couple of weeks ago, it was her first time outside the three west-coast states. Since then, she’s encountered untold other firsts.
UAA’s Carlson Center helped with the curriculum for this service learning course.
The Daily | 11/14/06
Paul Farmer, the subject of the UW common book selection Mountains Beyond Mountains, talked about his experiences working with communities across the world last night in Kane Hall. Farmer, a medical doctor, has dedicated his life to lessening the disparities caused by illnesses that disproportionately affect the poor …
The Seattle P-I | 11/13/06
Joe Stockton is taking what he’s learned in the classroom into the community …
University Week | 11/16/06
Paul Farmer came to the UW on Monday, urging his listeners to regard health care not as a privilege but as a right, something that must be part of the social contract.
University Week | 09.28.06
Students can register now to hear Paul Farmer, the subject of Tracy Kidder’s book, Mountains Beyond Mountains: The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, a Man Who Would Cure the World,who will discuss his work in global health at 7 p.m. Nov. 13 …
SEATTLE TIMES | 05.19.06
"Three seniors with unusual ambitions and talents who together have landed their school a rare honor…"
SEATTLE P-I | 03.29.06
Suzanne Jeneby went to Kenya on a whim as an undergraduate and never left emotionally …
The Chronicle of Higher Education | 09.08.06
Woe are the sophomores, higher education’s middle children. Their freshman frolic has given way to daunting challenges. They are anxious and confused. They must declare majors, take weed-out classes, and decide whether to study abroad. They feel pressure to plan for internships and careers, and to figure out who they are and where they are going …
THE DAILY | 02.08.06
Eliana Hechter never attended her senior prom. She never went to her high school’s homecoming game, and never sat through a high school English exam. Instead, she opted to go to the UW at the age of 14 — but her accomplishments don’t stop there …
The Seattle P-I | 10.02.06
Sometimes it’s hard to believe that one man can make a difference in a world surrounded by wars, terrorist threats and atrocities against human beings …
SEATTLE P-I | 7.11.2006
"Ten UW students are chosen every year for an all-expenses-paid trip around the globe. They don’t have to attend classes overseas. Nor do they have to write a report or give a speech when they return. All they have to do is enjoy…"
UNIVERSITY WEEK | 6.22.06
Photo of first incoming UW freshmen to receive Mountains Beyond Mountains, the inaugural UW Common Book selection.
UNIVERSITY WEEK | 03.02.06
Who is responsible for addressing the epic problems of our age? What is society to do about homelessness, poverty, disease, discrimination, addiction, suicide, injustice and other widespread afflictions? These are the substantial matters being taken up by Eugene Edgar, a professor of special education, and his Winter Quarter honors seminar, "Public Problems: Who is Responsible and How Should They Be Solved?" …
SCIENCE | 6.30.2006
"In 1999, the University of Washington (UW) began linking components of restoration ecology studies across academic units among its three campuses. The UW Restoration Ecology Network (UW-REN) was created with one-time internal funds to catalyze faculty and student participation across the traditional boundaries of academic departments…"
THE DAILY | 01.17.06
After a quarter of work, a committee has generated a list of ways to make the UW a better place for students ..
THE DAILY | 01.13.06
More than 800 students, faculty, staff and their families are expected to turn out for the Martin Luther King Jr. Day of Service Monday …
University Week | 11/30/06
The secret, it seems, is out. From students across the University, to the Board of Regents, to all levels of the University’s administration, there is an unmistakable recognition that excellent academic advising and counseling is a necessity at the University of Washington …
THE SEATTLE TIMES | 8.12.06
There’s tuition, and then there’s the other mandatory college expenses. Grant Kollet, director of First Year Programs, is quoted.
SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE | 02.15.06
Americanese, the movie based on Honors Program director Shawn Wong’s novel American Knees will open the 24th San Francisco International Asian American Film Festival …
SEATTLE P-I | 03.14.06
Eight University of Washington honors students will travel to D’Iberville, Miss., to help in Hurricane Katrina recovery work …
THE DAILY | 01.13.06
The push for more funding for undergraduate advising at the UW continues in Olympia …
THE SEATTLE TIMES | 8.12.06
Seattle interior designer Jann Placentia usually shops at the exclusive, high-end Seattle Design Center for her clients. But when her son was preparing for college last year, she headed to a collegiate standard: Bed Bath & Beyond …
UNIVERSITY WEEK | 6.6.2006
"When Eric Godfrey became the interim vice president for student affairs last fall, he did not intend to pursue the permanent position, which is now called the vice provost for student life. But nine months in the job changed his mind…"
UNIVERSITY WEEK | 6.6.2006
"Ed Taylor was a talented high school basketball player with no firm plan for his future when he met the people who would unknowingly steer his life toward teaching. Not surprisingly, they were students…"
UNIVERSITY WEEK | 01.19.06
New undergraduate course will explore how yearning for justice, vengeance, bravery, and honor — all manifested in the hero figure — has satisfied the psychological needs of Japanese and Chinese readers for centuries, and how that tradition is now being used to serve the psychological needs of American readers and moviegoers …
UNIVERSITY WEEK | 8.17.06
Nathan Kutz and Josh Proctor have worked, studied, traveled, published and even applied for a patent together in their roles as professor and student, boss and employee and principal investigator and student researcher …
SEATTLE TIMES | 02.28.06
Psychology professor and Honors Program instructor David Barash lands on list of most dangerous professors …
SEATTLE TIMES | 04.06.06
Seattle Times reports on podcasting, a Classroom Support Services offering …
UNIVERSITY WEEK | 03.02.06
UW faculty write books all the time, but it’s rare for one of them to be made into a movie. That’s what’s happened to Shawn Wong’s book, American Knees, and this month the movie begins a round of appearances at film festivals …
SEATTLE TIMES | 05.20.06
"A high-tech human exoskeleton powered by compressed air that could one day enable quadriplegics to walk…"
UNIVERSITY WEEK | 04.27.06
University Week talks with Provost Wise about changes in undergraduate education and across campus …
UNIVERSITY WEEK | 02.16.06
Religion, violence, and peace: Patterns across time and tradition, a class in UAAs University Courses featured …
The Daily | 11/13/06
Dr. Paul Farmer, famous for his work battling illnesses in low-resource communities, will be speaking tonight in Kane 120 at 7 p.m. …
UNIVERSITY WEEK | 8.17.06
John D. Sahr, professor in the UW’s Department of Electrical Engineering and a leading researcher in passive radar technology, has accepted the position of associate dean for undergraduate academic affairs in the UW Office of Undergraduate Education …
THE CHRONICLE OF HIGHER EDUCATION | 03.24.06
Mary Gates Endowment Research Scholar Monty Read featured for his lifesuit. He started with scrap metal, but his goal is to computerize and refine the device, and, ultimately, to change paralyzed people’s expectations of their own mobility. His project has been his passion during a remarkable shift in his own fortunes …
NORTHWEST ASIAN WEEKLY | 05.27.06
"Americanese, a film by Eric Byler based on Shawn Wong’s 1995 novel American Knees, has fulfilled this very description as it captures the emotional dimensions and race-identity nuances that revolve around breakups and father-son and father-daughter relationships…"
THE DAILY | 02.09.06
Honors student and cellist Kaia Chessen rocks the house …
P-I REPORTER | 05.24.06
"Three University of Washington seniors will pursue such ambitions when they move to the United Kingdom this fall as recipients of top university honors — the Rhodes, Gates Cambridge and Marshall scholarships, respectively…"
uwnews.org | 04.13.06
Two new positions, vice provost for student life and vice provost and dean of undergraduate academic affairs, are being created to develop better ways of integrating "living and learning," according to Executive Vice Provost Ana Mari Cauce. Both units will report to Cauce, so that their policies and services will be closely coordinated …
THE DAILY | 6.28.2006
"Ed Taylor, an associate professor in the UW College of Education, has accepted the position of Vice Provost and Dean of Undergraduate Academic Affairs, effective July 1, 2006…"
UNIVERSITY WEEK | 04.04.06
Robinson Center for Young Scholars honors fifth-eighth grade students for academic achievement discovered through the Washington Search for Young Scholars…
UNIVERSITY WEEK | 05.11.06
"Ten UW students recently received word that they’ve been awarded a Bonderman Travel Fellowship. Students traveling with this $20,000 fellowship set off on solo journeys that are at least eight months long and take them to at least six countries and two major regions of the world…"
THE DAILY | 02.08.06
Skipping four years of high school may not appeal to some teens, but to 16 young students it was an offer that could not be refused …
THE DAILY | 01.17.06
Nine hundred students, staff, faculty and their families turned out to celebrate Martin Luther King Jr. Day the way King would have intended: serving their communities…
THE DAILY | 7.26.2006
"Ten UW students have been awarded a chance to see the world…"
UWEEK | Thursday, May 26, 2005
Christine Ingebritsen has been named acting dean and acting vice provost in the Office of Undergraduate Education. Ingebritsen, who was formerly associate dean of the office, is also an associate professor of Scandinavian Studies ..
THE DAILY | November 15, 2005
With midterm season in full swing, study centers and tutors are seeing huge influxes of students trying to cram in crucial facts before the test …
UWEEK | Thursday, May 05, 2005
While Patrick Christie is trying to shake up the way undergraduates frame issues in the new course “Society and the Oceans,” the UW is trying to frame the large lecture class in new ways …
UNIVERSITY WEEK | November 17, 2005
Students who enter the UW next fall will have at least one thing in common — they will all have read the same book. Tracy Kidder’s Mountains Beyond Mountains has been chosen as the book that all incoming freshmen will be given and expected to read before fall classes begin …
UNIVERSITY WEEK | October 20, 2005
A pilot project now under way is a big step toward the goal of "anytime, anywhere learning." Classroom Support Services is running a pilot project to podcast lectures in three Kane Hall classes…
THE DAILY | October 25, 2005
With the departure of Ernest Morris, the UW’s longtime vice president for student affairs, the arrival of Provost Phyllis Wise and a new Dean of Undergraduate Education, administrators are saying the time for change in undergraduate education has come ..
SEATTLE P-I | December 6, 2005
The University of Washington will ask each incoming student to read the same work of non-fiction — what it’s calling the "Common Book" — before they come to campus next fall …
SEATTLE TIMES | November 16, 2005
Move over, Oprah. The University of Washington is launching a book club with 5,000 members — some more willing than others …
SEATTLE P-I | October 31, 2005
On Mike Jensen’s playlist: Oceanography 102. Along with more entertaining tunes, the University of Washington senior has downloaded his instructor’s lectures to his iPod. Now he can learn all the about the world’s oceans at home, in the gym or anywhere else on campus …
UWEEK | Thursday, May 12, 2005
This year’s Undergraduate Research Symposium will attract more than 500 participants — a growth of ten-fold in the program’s eight-year history …
YAKIMA HERALD-REPUBLIC | Thursday, March 25, 2004
Eduardo Torres reads his story aloud while University of Washington student Meryl Goodwin pounds away on the keyboard … The effort is part of a UW Pipeline Project, a program in which UW students use their spring break helping elementary students improve their literacy while learning about attending a university …
UW DAILY | Monday, September 27, 2004
Dawg Daze commenced its first full day of action yesterday, as freshmen and volunteers
ushered in the new school year …
THE UW DAILY | Tuesday, February 10, 2004
George Bridges, dean of undergraduate education, vice provost and sociology professor, never shies away from welcoming students into his home or, for that matter, his life …
UWEEK | Thursday, October 21, 2004
Where do brand-new freshmen and experienced professors come together to study questions obscure or obvious, entertaining or eternal, in a friendly and ungraded small-group format? The answer “Absolutely nowhere — you must be dreaming” is wrong, …
THE SEATTLE TIMES | Monday, October 11, 2004
Over the next several months, voters, elected officials and administrators of state agencies will make critical decisions about funding for higher education in Washington state …
UWEEK | Thursday, June 03, 2004
Kim Johnson Bogart has good reasons both professional and personal to attend and enjoy the University of Washington’s 2004 Commencement Exercises on Saturday, June 12. She has attended several times before, but this year, it’s a family thing. In …
UWEEK | Thursday, May 13, 2004
Are small-scale stream restoration projects successful? What are the most efficient undergraduate business programs in the Pac-10? And by the way, how have novelty records affected British popular culture? Such questions and scores more ..
SEATTLE POST-INTELLIGENCER | Saturday, June 12, 2004
Jennifer Lenhart graduates from the University of Washington today with the satisfaction of knowing that her research is influencing major international trade policies, with ripples
reaching the nation’s capital and the Third World ..
UWEEK | Thursday, October 7, 2004
How do you recruit faculty for a program that is not able to offer lavish support or huge salaries, that won’t likely generate articles in prestigious journals, and that probably involves more work than your average class? You offer them…
UWEEK | Thursday, October 14, 2004
Once again the UW is looking for the best and brightest fifth- through eighth-grade students throughout Washington. The UW’s Halbert & Nancy Robinson Center for Young Scholars is conducting the Washington Search for Young Scholars (WSYS) to …
THE DAILY | Tuesday, November 25, 2003
What began as one faculty member’s ambition to create a better undergraduate experience at the UW has grown this quarter into one of the University’s most popular undergraduate …
SEATTLE POST-INTELLIGENCER | Tuesday, November 26, 2002
For freshmen at the University of Washington, jumping into the stream of 40,000 students coursing along the labyrinthine walkways and filling lecture halls can be both exciting and alienating…
COLUMNS: Briefings | June 2003
In recognition of their excellence in undergraduate education, the UW School of Drama and the UW Transition School/Early Entrance Program at the Robinson Center for the Young Scholars share the 2003 Brotman Awards for Instructional Excellence. See also: UWEEK’s Best & Brightest 2003
UWEEK | Thursday, April 10, 2003
First there was Dawn Hewett. Then came Matt Alexander and then there was a third, Jasmin Weaver. The three UW students were selected as Mitchell Scholars in three consecutive years — a sure sign that the University has become a major …
THE UW DAILY | Monday, September 29, 2003
Freshmen and other students enrolled in entry-level courses at the UW this fall will have access to an unprecedented tutoring and scholastic-support system. Called the Center for Learning and Undergraduate Experience (CLUE) …