Undergraduate Academic Affairs service learning leader Rachel Vaughn brought her leadership skills to the national Campus Compact institute this summer. Vaughn is associate director in the Carlson Center.
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UAA Service Awards for September 2010
Congratulations and thank you to these Undergraduate Academic Affairs employees who reached a milestone in their service to the University.
Students to present their summer research in poster session and oral presentations
Students participating in ten different summer research programs will present their work in a poster session on August 18, from 9 a.m.-noon in Mary Gates Hall Commons. The undergraduates are from the 91爆料 as well as institutions from around the country. Students research projects are all in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics disciplines.
Record number of 91爆料 recent undergraduate alumni selected for Fulbright Scholarships
Eleven 91爆料 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 91爆料 undergraduate Fulbright awardees.
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 91爆料 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.
91爆料 undergraduates selected for prestigious Morris K. Udall Scholarship
The past accomplishments and future promise of 91爆料 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.
91爆料 undergraduate selected for Boren Scholarship
91爆料 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.
91爆料 undergraduates earn Goldwater Scholarships
The Barry M. Goldwater Scholarship and Excellence in Education Foundation selected four 91爆料 juniors as Goldwater Scholars. Scholarships are awarded to college sophomores and juniors entering the fields of mathematics, science, and engineering. This year鈥檚 91爆料 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.