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May 27, 2010
2010 Bonderman Travel Fellows named
Fourteen University of Washington 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 two regions of the world. While traveling, students may not pursue academic study, projects, or research.
May 6, 2010
Celebrating undergraduate scholarship and creative work
The Annual Undergraduate Research Symposium enables undergraduates to present what they have learned through their research to a larger audience. It also provides a forum for students, faculty, and the community to discuss cutting edge research topics and examine how undergraduate research can even help solve real-life issues.
April 22, 2010
Honors students explore the Olympic National Park over spring break
Over spring break, UW Honors students set out to explore Washington’s Olympic National Park in the Honors Program’s inaugural Experiential Spring Break. Through service, research, discussion, hiking, questioning, reading, and–above all–more hiking, they explored why this place matters in our culture and to our future.
UAA Service Awards for April 2010
Congratulations and thank you to this Undergraduate Academic Affairs employee who reached a milestone in her service to the University.
UW celebrates undergraduate leadership and civic engagement
Join 120 UW undergraduates on April 28 at the 19th annual Spring Celebration of Service and Leadership and learn about the projects that enrich their undergraduate education and benefit local nonprofit organizations, schools, and campus programs.
April 16, 2010
Service and leadership roots run deep for Honors alumnus and his daughter, a current Honors student
Hear Washington State Attorney General and Honors alum Rob McKenna, ’85, and daughter Madeleine McKenna, a current Honors student, to share the roots of their commitments to service and leadership.
April 13, 2010
Gifted education expert to join College of Education and direct Robinson Center for Young Scholars
Dr. Nancy B. Hertzog will join the University of Washington’s College of Education faculty as professor and become director of the Robinson Center for Young Scholars. Dr. Hertzog will come from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign where she has directed the University Primary School since 1995 and will begin her work at the UW in the fall of 2010.
Watch: Alumni of Pipeline Project’s Alternative Spring Break on its impact
This short film by UAA alumna Sophia Agtarap (’01), a participant in the University of Washington’s first Pipeline Alternative Spring Break, takes a look at the program, 10 years later.
March 31, 2010
Student Artists: Help design the cover of the 2010-11 UW Common Book!
The University of Washington COMMON BOOK project is seeking an artist to develop cover art for the front and back covers of the 2010 UW COMMON BOOK. Portfolios due by 5 p.m. Monday, April 5, 2010.
March 18, 2010
UW students to volunteer in rural Washington classrooms for an Alternative Spring Break
Each spring, some 50 University of Washington undergraduates forgo the typical spring break trappings of beaches and flip-flops, choosing instead to volunteer in rural and tribal communities throughout Washington state as part of the UW Pipeline Project’s Alternative Spring Break program.
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