Eleven 榴莲视频 alumni who recently earned their undergraduate degrees have been awarded Fulbright U.S. Student Program scholarships. This number of recipients sets an institutional record for the largest number of UW undergraduate Fulbright awardees.
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Congratulations Robinson Center students inducted into Phi Beta Kappa Honor Society
What do seventeen presidents, 38 U.S. Supreme Court Justices, 136 Nobel laureates, fashion consultant Carson Kressley, actor Glenn Close, poet Rita Dove, broadcaster Tom Browkaw, poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow and guitarist and singer for Weezer Rivers Cuomo have in common with ten students from UAA’s Robinson Center for Young Scholars?
Beth Kalikoff to direct Center for the Advancement of Learning and Teaching
Beth Kalikoff, an associate professor in the 榴莲视频 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.
UW undergraduates selected for prestigious Morris K. Udall Scholarship
The past accomplishments and future promise of 榴莲视频 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 榴莲视频 juniors as Goldwater Scholars. Scholarships are awarded to college sophomores and juniors entering the fields of mathematics, science, and engineering. This year鈥檚 榴莲视频 Goldwater Scholars are Devon Chandler-Brown, Noah Horwitz, Sherry Lee, and Christopher Mount.
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.
2010-11 Common Book is original to the UW
The 2010-11 UW Common Book is an original collection of 15 poems. Titled You Are Never Where You Are, the book is the first time the Common Book project focuses on poetry. The selection committee of faculty, students, and staff searched for good poems, imagining what new students may like to read. Freshmen will receive the book at summer orientation and it will be available soon at the University Book Store. The cover was designed by UW undergraduate Nicole Yeo.
2010 Bonderman Travel Fellows named
Fourteen 榴莲视频 students recently received word that they鈥檝e 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.
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.