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April 28, 2011
Civic leadership an integral component to UW undergraduate education
On May 9, 2011, UW undergraduates will showcase their civic engagement projects that enrich their undergraduate education and benefit the local nonprofit organizations, schools, and campus programs with which they volunteer. In the 2009-10 school year alone, nearly 5,000 UW students participated in university-sponsored public service, including service learning, public service internships and volunteer work.
March 22, 2011
Poetry: From Pulitzer to Performance
Poetry: From Pulitzer to Performance April is National Poetry month! Join the UW Common Book and celebrate imagination, voice, and writing. Philip Levine, winner of the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award among other honors, and Ken Arkind, a nationally-recognized slam poet share their work and answer questions at this one-of-a-kind event with two very different…
March 16, 2011
UW senior selected for national fellowship for aspiring teachers of color
University of Washington senior and Issaquah, WA, native Emily Lee was recently named one of 25 fellows selected through a competitive process for the Woodrow Wilson-Rockefeller Brothers Fund Fellowships for Aspiring Teachers of Color.
February 24, 2011
Honors freshmen perform interpretations of poems in the UW Common Book
At the end of autumn quarter, students from the Honors Program Peer Instructor Seminars gathered together to perform poems from the Common Book. Each group of students choose a poem from the Common Book and performed their interpretation of it. These ranged from creative readings and photographs to skits and musical pieces.
February 15, 2011
University of Washington Dream Project to expand and deepen programming
The Dream Project is taking bold steps to expand, deepen and evaluate its work thanks to a recent grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the first major grant awarded to the Dream Project, has made this expanded work feasible.
China Earthquake Relief on UW360
Learn about Honors student Geoffrey Morgan and Honors alum Steve Margitan whose international research projects took a different course when the 2008 Sichuan earthquake hit.
December 17, 2010
Martin Luther King, Jr. Day of Service, January 2011
The University of Washington continues to honor the legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King and his vision for social justice through a commitment to service and community engagement. In January 2011, there are several ways to get involved.
December 16, 2010
Fall 2010 UAA snapshot of serving students
For the October 2010 UAA directors meeting, Vice Provost and Dean Ed Taylor asked directors to share some program updates. The points below are edited from those updates. It’s a quick snapshot of some of the ways Undergraduate Academic Affairs serves students.
November 12, 2010
University of Washington receives $1 million grant from Amgen Foundation in support of undergraduate research
The University of Washington has received a $1 million grant over the next four years from the Amgen Foundation to provide hands-on laboratory experience to approximately 100 undergraduates through the Amgen Scholars Program.
October 28, 2010
Expanded Role for Honors Program Director
James J. Clauss, director of the Honors Program, has accepted an expanded his role in Undergraduate Academic Affairs and is now associate dean. For Jim, the new role is “structurally logical” but is also recognition of the importance of Honors as an integral part of the University.
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