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, Jesse is the first UW student to receive the scholarship as an undergraduate since 1977 and one of 18 nationwide to receive this scholarship this year.
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UW Advisers recognized for their work and lead presentations at NACADA conference
The Region 8 National Academic Advising Association conference was recently held in Seattle and University of Washington advisers received recognition for their work and shared their expertise with their regional colleagues.
UAA alumna Lesley Everett featured in The Gates Scholar magazine
Lesley Everett, 2006 Honors graduate in biochemistry, Mary Gates Research Scholar, and Gates Cambridge Scholar, is featured on the cover of The Gates Scholar magazine winter issue, the twice-yearly publication featuring current and alumni Gates Cambridge scholar activities. Read her article, “Searching for Sickle Cell.”
UAA Service Awards for December 2009-January 2010
Congratulations and thank you to these Undergraduate Academic Affairs employees who reached milestones in their service to the University.
Message from Vice Provost and Dean Ed Taylor, January 2010
Dear UAA Colleagues,
We recently learned that the University of Washington is a Pac-10 leader for graduation rates of student athletes. According to the NCAA, the UW’s student athlete graduation rate of 84 percent is second-best in the West for a public university. For football student athletes, the UW ranks second only to Stanford in graduation rates. Here’s a link to the full article.
Additionally, more than 130 student athletes earned recognition as Pac-10 All-Academic, meaning their cumulative GPA is higher than 3.0 and they are a team starter or significant contributor. These student athletes play football, baseball, basketball, crew, cross-country, soccer, gymnastics and more and study sociology, molecular biology, accounting, international studies, informatics, digital arts and still more.
Congratulations to the academic support staff in Student Athlete Services, to Kim Durand, to so many faculty mentors, and to our coaches. These professionals support the many forms of student excellence we realize on this campus.
This quarter, I’ll be spending a good deal of time working with colleagues to help determine what constitutes our common goods and common principles, as we begin to adopt new a budget model called activity based budgeting (ABB). You can learn more about this model here.
I want to underscore that ABB is a budgeting model, a way to recognize and reward academic activities and create a more transparent budget process. While ABB supports the mission and values, the work of lining up to the mission and values is our work. The mission and values are driving the budget, not the other way around. Our commitment to the student experience, our commitment to access and quality experiences and to shaping student lives is work we do during the best of times and during the worst of budget times.
We are all aware that, as we were last year at this time, we are experiencing some budgetary ambiguity. I hold my UAA colleagues in high regard for the way you continued our work. Through unknowns you continued the work of serving students and deepening academic experiences. We’ll continue that good work this year as we plan for the immediate future and the future yet to come.
Sincerely,
Ed Taylor
Unique lens into human rights in Kenya comes from Kenyan artists
Human rights in Kenya will be highlighted locally via an art show as a result of an African Studies seminar in Kenya. Erin Murphy, Honors alumna, and current graduate student participated in the seminar “Human Rights and Social Transformation in Kenya” in Nairobi, Kenya, last summer and is one of the students coordinating a show and sale of artwork by Kenyan artists.
Sign up to volunteer for 9th annual Martin Luther King, Jr. Day of Service
Celebrate the legacy of Martin Luther King, Jr. and the enduring values of compassion, dignity, humility, and service and volunteer on the annual MLK, Jr. Day of Service: January 18, 2010. More than 60 organizations need your help.
UAA alumnus update: Peter Kithene, CNN Hero
CNN checks in with 2007 CNN Hero Peter Kithene. Peter is a UW graduate, a Mary Gates Scholar, Munro Public Service Award recipient, and Edward E. Carlson Student Leadership Awardee.
Message from Vice Provost and Dean Ed Taylor, Dec 2009
Dear UAA Colleagues,
As a public university, our call to service has deep roots that extend throughout our community and includes alumni and donors.
Recently, one of UAA’s good friends, Alyson McGregor, made a multi-year pledge to the Pipeline Project’s Alternative Spring Break. With it, we plan to engage more students in deeper ways in collaboration with Washington state rural and tribal communities. Connections will begin in Early Fall Start and continue through the year, expanding the traditional Alternative Spring Break efforts. These communities have important histories and traditions from which we can learn by doing work that is important to the heritage of this state and University. Having students engaged in rural and tribal communities goes to the soul of who we are in the Pacific Northwest.
This January marks the 9th annual Martin Luther King, Jr. Day of Service. Since January 2001, the University of Washington community of students, staff, faculty, and alumni have come together in ever increasing numbers to remember, honor, and further King’s legacy by volunteering. For some, it may be a one-day event to commemorate a man whose life and work changed our nation. For others it may mark the beginning of their commitment to serving an organization, a cause. And for others still it may be a moment in what to them is a lifelong commitment to volunteerism and service.
It is profound to think of King, who has been deceased now longer than he actually lived, and consider the impact he continues to have. His call to service was for more than one day and indeed the work lasts beyond the Martin Luther King, Jr. Day of Service. But, we as a community can begin to answer that call on this one day, so let’s put on the garden gloves, pick up the paint brushes, and serve our community.
I hope you enjoy the holidays. I look forward to continuing our good work in the New Year.
Happy New Year,
Ed Taylor
Students share their talents at first Honors Open Mic
Dimming the lights, scrambling to find a seat and trying desperately not to drip hot coffee on anyone, on Thursday, December 3, UW Honors students settled into the upstairs room of U District institution Café Allegro to see what their peers had to offer.