Faculty News

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Spring Quarter 2008

Two UWT faculty members receive RRF awards

June 2008—IAS is very pleased to announce that two UWT faculty members have been approved for the spring round of Royalty Research Fund research projects: Erica Cline, Assistant Professor, IAS and Cynthia Duncan, Associate Professor, IAS.

Erica's project is titled "Effects of shade trees on mycorrhizal diversity and abundance in Costa Rica coffee plantations," and Cynthia's project is titled "Testimonial literature as a tool for socioculturalexploration: A look at the Special Period in Cienfuegos, Cuba."

Royalty Research Fund awards are quite competitive. They are designed to facilitate research projects for three groups in particular: relatively junior faculty; faculty members in disciplines with fewer external grant awards available; and projects that will position the faculty member to obtain subsequent external funds.

Congratulations to Erica and Cynthia!

Professor Honey wins Prestigious Robert F. Kennedy Book Award

May 2008—Congratulations to Dr. Mike Honey for winning the prestigious Robert F. Kennedy Book Award. The annually awarded RFK Book Award is given to the book that best represents the values RFK stood for: "concern, for the poor and the powerless, his struggle for honest and even-handed justice, his conviction that a decent society must assure all young people a fair chance, and his faith that a free democracy can act to remedy disparities of power and opportunity.

This years Distinguished Service Award Goes to......

May 2008—Lia Wetzstein!! Every year, UW Tacoma recognizes two staff members for their outstanding contributions to the campus with the UW Tacoma Distinguished Service Award. This year, our very own Lia Wetzstein received the award. Congratulations, Lia, on this well-deserved recognition!

Winter Quarter 2008

Divya C. McMillin invited speaker at International Conference

Jan 2008—Divya C. McMillin is an invited speaker at the International Conference on Children and Gender in Film and TV hosted by the Geena Davis Institute on Gender in Media (Los Angeles, January 28-31). McMillin will be a special guest of the Ford Foundation and will discuss the findings of her Exploring Gender Identity Across the World project conducted in Johannesburg, South Africa, during the Fifth World Summit on Media for Children in March 2007. She will present the results of her 2006-07 collaborative project, Television and Cultural Identity, (sponsored by the International Central Institute for Youth and Educational Television, Germany) and will also participate in an international researchers’ roundtable on Gender Representation Worldwide, an unprecedented project that analyzes 100-200 hours of programming each from over 35 countries.

Autumn Quarter 2007

Linda Dawson Invited to Speak in Austin, TX

Oct 2007— Linda Dawson's new book publisher, McGraw-Hill, has invited her to speak at a Management Information Systems symposium in Austin, TX. The presentation is entitled "Using Cases in the MIS Classroom", a topic that is fundamental to her upcoming book, Succeeding in Business Using Technology.

Anne Beaufort Invited to be Keynote Speaker

Sep 2007— Anne Beaufort will be the keynote speaker at the International Writing-Across-the Curriculum conference at the University of Texas, Austin in May, 2008. Her recent book, College Writing and Beyond: A New Framework for University Writing Instruction, will be the topic of her address.

Professor Baird Wins Grant

Sep 2007—Associate Professor Katie Baird, along with researchers at Paraguay's Instituto Desarrollo, won a grant from the Interamerican Development Bank to evaluate Paraguay's educational system. This study is part of a larger project funded by the IDB to evaluate and compare educational systems throughout Latin American and the Caribbean.

Summer Quarter 2007

Tropical Ecology and Community

This summer saw the third iteration of IAS’s Costa Rica study abroad field course (Costa Rica Field Studies: Tropical Ecology & Community). Led by John “Buck” Banks, students from UWT and UWS conducted independent research projects in the rainforest and did volunteer work (including nightly beach patrols) at a turtle conservation center on Costa Rica’s Pacific coast from July 7-24 (click here for the student research project website). Buck and Jim Gawel are finalizing plans for a study abroad program in east Africa (Kenya) for Summer 2008; stay tuned for more information!

UWT’s Journal on the Environment

July 2007—The third volume of UWT’s Journal on the Environment (JoE) was published in July 2007 – click here to read the latest articles written and peer-reviewed by UWT students. Another issue is planned for this fall; check out the “Submissions” page of the JoE website for more info!

UWREN Receives International Recognition

July 2007—The UW Restoration Ecology Network (UWREN) received international recognition with the publication of an article in the journal Science about the tri-campus program. The article, co-authored by UW faculty teaching in the UWREN program, including Dr. John 'Buck' Banks of IAS, highlights the REN capstone experience, a year-long program that affords undergraduate students from all three UW campuses the opportunity to design and implement restoration projects for clients in the greater Puget Sound region. Recent UWT student teams partipating in the UWREN program have worked on stream restoration in Milton (Hylebos Creek), alpine meadow restoration in Ashford (Tacoma Power), and most recently terrestrial restoration on the TCC campus. Read the Science article at http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/312/5782/1880.

Dr. Mike Honey's Article in Seattle PI

June 2007—Dr. Mike Honey's article, "Soldier's duty: Say no to illegal war," appeared in the June 16th addition of the Seattle Post-Intelligencer. Click here to view the article.

Dr. Divya McMillin Receives Grant

June 2007—Dr. Divya McMillin has been given a grant from the Harry Bridges Center for Labor Studies to conduct fieldwork in Bangalore sweatshops for her project, "Sweatshop Labor and Subjective Agency in a Globalizing World," in the fall of 2006. She has also been invited by the Internationales Zentralinstitut fur das Jugend- und Bildungsfernsehen in Munich to work on a book on television and youth culture that comprises fieldwork from India, South africa, Germany, and the United States. She will be in Munich in September. Congratulations, Divya!

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