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July 19, 2010
Beth Kalikoff to direct Center for the Advancement of Learning and Teaching
Beth Kalikoff, an associate professor in the University of Washington Tacoma Interdisciplinary Arts program, will direct the Center for Advancement of Learning and Teaching. Kalikoff has a passion for teaching all students from first generation college students to recent high school graduates to adult learners. Her scholarship focuses on the history and politics of assessment and 21st-century cultural issues surrounding academic integrity.
July 15, 2010
UW undergraduates selected for prestigious Morris K. Udall Scholarship
The past accomplishments and future promise of University of Washington undergraduates Geoffrey Morgan and Audrey Djunaedi are being recognized with scholarships from the Morris K. Udall Foundation. From a pool of 537 candidates nominated by 256 colleges and universities, seniors Geoffrey Morgan and Audrey Djunaedi were selected Udall Scholars.
UW undergraduate selected for Boren Scholarship
UW junior Daetan Huck was recently selected as a National Security Education Program David L. Boren Undergraduate Scholar to study Arabic in Egypt during the 2010-11 academic year. The Boren Scholarship is a major national scholarship that provides U.S. undergraduates up to $20,000 to study abroad for an academic year in world regions critical to U.S. interests.
UW undergraduates earn Goldwater Scholarships
The Barry M. Goldwater Scholarship and Excellence in Education Foundation selected four University of Washington juniors as Goldwater Scholars. Scholarships are awarded to college sophomores and juniors entering the fields of mathematics, science, and engineering. This year’s University of Washington Goldwater Scholars are Devon Chandler-Brown, Noah Horwitz, Sherry Lee, and Christopher Mount.
July 12, 2010
UAA Service Awards for May-June 2010
Congratulations and thank you to these Undergraduate Academic Affairs employees who reached a milestone in their service to the University.
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.
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