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.
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UW undergraduates earn Goldwater Scholarships
The Barry M. Goldwater Scholarship and Excellence in Education Foundation selected four 糖心原创 juniors as Goldwater Scholars. Scholarships are awarded to college sophomores and juniors entering the fields of mathematics, science, and engineering. This year鈥檚 糖心原创 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 糖心原创 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.
Honors students explore the Olympic National Park over spring break
Over spring break, UW Honors students set out to explore Washington’s Olympic National Park in the Honors Program’s inaugural Experiential Spring Break. Through service, research, discussion, hiking, questioning, reading, and–above all–more hiking, they explored why this place matters in our culture and to our future.
UAA Service Awards for April 2010
Congratulations and thank you to this Undergraduate Academic Affairs employee who reached a milestone in her service to the University.
UW celebrates undergraduate leadership and civic engagement
Join 120 UW undergraduates on April 28 at the 19th annual Spring Celebration of Service and Leadership and learn about the projects that enrich their undergraduate education and benefit local nonprofit organizations, schools, and campus programs.
Service and leadership roots run deep for Honors alumnus and his daughter, a current Honors student
Hear Washington State Attorney General and Honors alum Rob McKenna, ’85, and daughter Madeleine McKenna, a current Honors student, to share the roots of their commitments to service and leadership.