Over spring break, ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø 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.
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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.
ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø celebrates undergraduate leadership and civic engagement
Join 120 ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø 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.
Gifted education expert to join College of Education and direct Robinson Center for Young Scholars
Dr. Nancy B. Hertzog will join the ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø’s College of Education faculty as professor and become director of the Robinson Center for Young Scholars. Dr. Hertzog will come from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign where she has directed the University Primary School since 1995 and will begin her work at the ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø in the fall of 2010.
Watch: Alumni of Pipeline Project’s Alternative Spring Break on its impact
This short film by UAA alumna Sophia Agtarap (’01), a participant in the ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø’s first Pipeline Alternative Spring Break, takes a look at the program, 10 years later.
Student Artists: Help design the cover of the 2010-11 ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø Common Book!
The ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø COMMON BOOK project is seeking an artist to develop cover art for the front and back covers of the 2010 ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø COMMON BOOK. Portfolios due by 5 p.m. Monday, April 5, 2010.
ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø students to volunteer in rural Washington classrooms for an Alternative Spring Break
Each spring, some 50 ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø undergraduates forgo the typical spring break trappings of beaches and flip-flops, choosing instead to volunteer in rural and tribal communities throughout Washington state as part of the ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø Pipeline Project’s Alternative Spring Break program.
UAA Service Awards for February-March 2010
Congratulations and thank you to these Undergraduate Academic Affairs employees who reached milestones in their service to the University.
Anthropology students and Pike Place Senior Center members connect over oral histories
The Carlson Leadership and Public Service Center connects ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø classes with community-based organizations so students experience first-hand what they are learning about and so organizations benefit from student service. “Hello in There” looks at Holly Barker’s anthropology class, a reciprocal learning experience for both students and members of the Pike Place Senior Center.