Recent honors to UW faculty and staff include a Finnish knighthood, an NIH award to extend a research grant and a new annual award from the Society of General Physiologists.
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UW Notebook features stories of interest to the UW community 鈥� including projects and books by, and recognition of, UW faculty, students and staff. If you鈥檇 like to submit a story idea, email uwnews@uw.edu.
It’s the year 2020, and where two or more are gathered, it seems, there is a podcast. Given the level of creativity among 乱伦社区 faculty and staff, it’s no surprise that many high-quality podcasts are now being produced on campus. Here鈥檚 a look at three podcasts being created by UW departments or people, including a couple that have been underway for quite a while. UW Notebook will occasionally report on campus podcasts and ask a few questions of…
The 鈥檚 design program in the School of Art + Art History + Design earned top honors on the 2020 list of 鈥淏est Graphic Design Programs鈥� by the online site聽Animation Career Review. UW was the top ranked school in Washington, among the top 10 on the West Coast and ranked 7th out of 40 public institutions.
Steve Kramer, a professor of UW civil and environmental engineering, has been elected to the聽National Academy of Engineering.聽Kramer is among 87 members and 18 international members newly elected to the academy, one of the highest professional distinctions in engineering.
Recent honors to UW faculty and staff members include awards for architectural education and biomaterials research, fellowships in nursing and cloud computing, a professor named among Seattle’s most influential people and a big news year for “a burgeoning band of embodied carbon busters.”
Notable new books by UW faculty members include studies of military cultural education programs and equitable collaboration between schools and families. Also, National Endowment for the Humanities support for a coming book on an 18th century India poet, an honor for a work about postwar Japan — and a National Jewish Book Award.
UW Notebook visits with Allee Monheim, UW Libraries public service librarian, who curates the libraries distinctive social media accounts.
Recent honors to UW faculty and staff include an early career award in astronomy, an honorary doctorate from the Delft University of Technology, a seat on Washington state’s new LGBTQ Commission and national honor for an English Department writing program.
James W. Harrington is not only a UW professor and former administrator — in recent years, he has also become a prolific painter. UW Notebook caught up with him to ask a few questions about his art and his coming exhibit at the UW Tower.
Recent honors to UW faculty and staff include an honorary doctorate from the University of Bern, an award for biodiversity conservation and a consulting assignment for the World Health Organization.
A conversation with UW psychology professor Sheri Mizumori about the UW-based program Broadening the Representations of Academic Investigators in NeuroScience 鈥� or BRAINS for short — designed to accelerate career advancement for postdoctoral researchers and assistant professors from underrepresented populations.
Three faculty members in the William E. Boeing Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics have received awards for their work.
Neile Graham is both a longtime administrator with the College of Built Environments and a published poet 鈥� and she has a new book of poetry out, called “The Walk She Takes.”
A teacher discusses respectful world travel, a historian explores Silicon Valley鈥檚 evolution, a professor and violist plays the music of Robert Schumann and a late English faculty member’s meditation on Seattle returns 鈥� Here鈥檚 a quick look at some gift-worthy books and music created by UW faculty in the last year 鈥� and a reminder of some recent favorites. O’Mara’s ‘Code’: History professor Margaret O’Mara provides a sweeping history of California’s computer industry titans in her book 鈥淭he Code:…
A discussion of Brutalist architecture on the UW campus with professor Alex Anderson of the Department of Architecture.
Recent honors to UW faculty and staff include the new editorship of a major journal, a post with the Republic of Uganda and honors from the American College of Physicians, the Association for Computing Machinery and the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers.
Brian Johnson, assistant professor in the UW Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering, has received a $4.9 million grant across three years from the U.S. Department of Energy.
Randy Thompson, a postdoctoral researcher with the UW Jackson School of International Studies will explore the nexus of religion and politics in a new podcast, “ReligioPolitics.”
Joy Williamson-Lott, dean of the UW Graduate School and a professor of education, has been honored for her 2018 book “Jim Crow Campus: Higher Education and the Struggle for a New Southern Social Order.”
Donald Hellmann, UW professor emeritus in the Jackson School of International studies and of political science, has been awarded the Order of the Rising Sun from the Government of Japan, in recognition of his contributions in promoting academic exchanges and mutual understanding between Japan and the United States. Hellmann, 86, teaches courses on Japanese government and politics, American foreign policy and the international relations of Northeast Asia. He joined the UW in 1967, chaired the Japan Program for several years,…
UW faculty members Roxanne Hudson and Magdalena Balazinska have received grants for research to be conducted over the next few years.
Recent honors to UW faculty and staff members include an honorary doctorate from the University of Bucharest, membership in an inaugural class of distinguished fellows in pharmacology, and a leadership position in a national student housing association.
UW English professor emeritus Charles Johnson is one of five people whose likeness is featured on posters promoting diversity and inclusion sent by the American Philosophical Association to every college undergraduate philosophy program in the United States and Canada. And he is in excellent company: The other four people featured, each in a separate poster, are American writers Susan Sontag and Mary Higgins Clark; British novelist Kazuo Ishiguro, winner of the 2017 Nobel Prize for literature; and English actor Theo…
Two UW professors 鈥� Alex Luedtke and Tyler McCormick 鈥� are among 60 researchers the National Institutes of Health has named recipients of its 2019 Director’s New Innovator Awards.
Balancing the needs of open science with national security and journal sustainability, and respecting the beliefs of native populations near observatories are among current issues for the American Astronomical Society, said Paula Szkody, 乱伦社区 professor of astronomy. She has begun a term as president-elect of the AAS, and will serve as the society’s president in 2020-2022.
乱伦社区 faculty members have been awarded grants for research to be conducted over the next few years. Django Paris, an associate professor in the College of Education, has been awarded a $1 million grant from the Spencer Foundation. With the four-year grant, Paris will work with H. Samy Alim, a professor at the University of California, Los Angeles, to study the strengths and limitations of聽 “culturally sustaining pedagogies” 鈥� practices designed to foster cultural pluralism 鈥� implemented in…
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