Huskies Above the Fold
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Down With Dorms
Two 1960s-era dorms on the Northeast side of UW’s Seattle campus will be torn down to make way for five new residence halls. McCarty Hall will be torn down and replaced with three new residence halls that will open in fall 2018. Phase Two includes the demolition of Haggett Hall to make room for two more new residence halls. iiiiiiiiiiiiiiii
Penguin Potential P. Dee Boersma, UW biology professor and Wadsworth Endowed Chair in Conservation Science, was one of six finalists for the prestigious Indianapolis Prize for conservation. An expert in penguins with more than three decades as a researcher and advocate, Boersma is the first UW professor to be nominated for this biennial prize given by the Indianapolis Zoo. iiiiiiiiiiiiiiii
Sephardic Studies
UW history professor Devin Naar is the first Isaac Alhadeff, Professor in Sephardic Studies. Named for UW alumnus Isaac “Ike” Alhadeff, ’38, a WWII B-17 pilot and prisoner of war who returned to Seattle to help run the family business, the endowed professorship furthers the study of Sephardic history and culture. The Sephardi are a Jewish ethnic division, descended from distinct communities that lived in Spain and Portugal in and prior to the 15th Century. Naar is the current chair of the UW Sephardic Studies Program. iiiiiiiiiiiiiiii
Academy Alums
Three alumni were elected this spring to the National
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Academy of Engineering: Tom Anderson, ’91, (engineering); Jon Magnusson, ’75, (civil engineering) and Albert Greenberg, ’81, ’83, (computer science). Anderson has been a UW faculty member since 1997 and holds the Warren Francis and Wilma Kolm Bradley Endowed Chair. iiiiiiiiiiiiiiii
Star Scientist
Astronomy professor Eric Agol won the 2016 Lecar Prize from the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics. The award recognizes exceptional contributions in the study of exoplanets—those beyond our solar system—and theoretical astrophysics. In 2013, Agol discovered a five-planet system with the most Earth-like ex0planet found at the time. He was also on the team that found the first planetary system with seven planets that are seen to transit, or cross in front of, their host stars. iiiiiiiiiiiiiiii
Farm Fun Carley Simpson, ’04, whose family moved to a five-acre farm near Seattle when she was 13, has turned to her past for inspiration for “We Bought the Farm,” a reality show on Home & Garden Television (HGTV). Show runner and executive producer, Simpson has creative oversight over the program that features city families moving to the country. The first episode aired in April. iiiiiiiiiiiiiiii
Healthy Design
The UW College of Built Environments and School of Public Health have been chosen to join the American Institute of Architects’ new multi-school Design & Health Research Consortium. The purpose of the consortium is to further the intersection of design and health disciplines. The UW team is led by Andrew Dannenberg, an affiliate professor of environmental and occupational health sciences and urban planning and design, and Heather Burpee, ’08, a research assistant professor of architecture.
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Privacy Priority
Six UW law students played a key role in a new Washington law that aims to better protect privacy and monitor data collection by agencies in the state. Signed by Gov. Jay Inslee on April 1, the law establishes a state Office of Privacy and Data Protection. iiiiiiiiiiiiiiii
Calories Count
An article about rethinking the calorie in a recent The Atlantic magazine recognized UW epidemiologist Adam Drenowski for his system of looking at food in terms of nutrition per calorie. Under his approach, rather than simply counting calories, food would be valued on a nutrient density score. Dark green vegetables, for example, would score very highly because they contain a lot of nutrients per calorie. Drenowski’s work reminds us that there are other ways to look at food than the FDA’s, ways that may be better for health and weight loss. iiiiiiiiiiiiiiii
Babies’ Business UW junior Jesse Sheldon was named Spokane Valley Entrepreneur of the Year by the Spokane Valley Chamber of Commerce at the chamber’s gala in January. Sheldon, who studies communications and entrepreneurship, is founder and president of Inland NW Baby, the only diaper bank in Spokane. He started the business as a ninth-grader and has since provided 200,000 diapers to low-income families.
G R E G S H E R I DA N UW Alumni Association Distinguished Service Award In his 14 years at the UW, Greg Sheridan worked to connect alumni with the University and mentor colleagues along the way. Those traits—which characterize his devotion to serving higher education—are why Sheridan, senior associate vice president for University Advancement, is the recipient of the UW Alumni Association’s Distinguished Service Award. Says Sheridan, who will retire on Jan. 2: “There isn’t a day in the last 40-plus years that I didn’t love coming to work.”
SA N D R A A DA M S M O T Z E R UW-UWRA Distinguished Retiree Excellence in Community Service Since her 2008 retirement from the UW School of Nursing, Associate Professor Emerita Sandy Motzer has volunteered to improve her Lake City community. She established an Emergency Communication Hub to aid in natural-disaster preparedness, and now serves as the first chairperson of the Lake City Neighborhood Alliance. She also collaborates with the school of nursing to enhance Lake City senior services, and is championing a new, full-service Lake City Community Center.
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Honors for Hizzoner
Two big awards recognized the great work of U.S. District Court Judge Richard A. Jones. First, he received the UW’s Charles E. Odegaard Award, which highlights a person whose “leadership in the community exemplifies the former UW president’s work on behalf of diversity.” Next, Jones, ’75, was one of 90 people nationwide awarded the Ellis Island Medal of Honor for accomplishments in his field and inspired service to our nation.
BERT POUND Golden Graduates Distinguished Alumnus Award As a member of the Husky Marching Band in the 1930s, Bert Pound played for the famous “boys in the boat” before and after their gold-medal win at the 1936 Berlin Olympics. Pound, ’39, a snare-drum player and former hotelier and businessman, turns 100 in September. He is the UW’s original hep cat, joining the UW Alumni Band when it formed in 1977. He is also famous for performing a one-armed push-up every time the Huskies scored and raising money for the Husky Marching Band.
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pairs three couples who marry when they first meet and live together for six weeks. With three seasons complete, the show now airs on FYI and A&E. Schwartz and two other experts offer coaching and insight through the first weeks of the legal marriages.