Washington Leadership Institute, a collaboration between the UW School of Law and the Washington State Bar Association is pleased to announce the 2018 class of Fellows. Selected from a large pool of qualified applicants, the class reflects the wealth of diversity and talent from communities across the state. The WSBA Leadership Institute welcomes to the 2018 class of Fellows:
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Keith Russell's recent work was published in the journal Child & Youth Care Forum.
Click here for a link to A Pilot Study Examining Outcomes Associated with the Implementation of Progress Monitoring at a Substance Use Disorder Treatment Program for Adolescents.
Russell is a professor of recreation in the Health and Human Development Department.
John All, director of Western's Mountain Environments Research Institute, is scheduled to speak Jan. 29, 2018, at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory on "Studying Climate Change on Mt. Everest - Integrated Mountain Environment Research Systems in Peru and Nepal."
The talk is part of Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Climate Sciences Department's "Climate Conversations" lunchtime lecture series.
Hope Corbin, an associate professor of health and community studies at Woodring College of Education, recently curated a virtual issue of Health Promotion International to highlight work published in the journal on partnership and intersectoral action.
Corbin also wrote the introduction and one of the articles. All the articles are available for free at https://academic.oup.com/heapro/pages/partnership_and_inter-sectoral_action
Norway's University of Bergen Alumni Network recently profiled Hope Corbin, associate professor of health and community studies, who earned a master's and doctoral degree in Norway.
Corbin is spending the year at her alma mater, working with the Refugee Resilience Network and studying the experiences of young adults had who migrated to Norway at a young age.
College of Humanities and Social Sciences, German Department, Modern and Classical Languages Department, Ray Wolpow Institute for the Study of the Holocaust, Sandra Alfers
Daniel Larner (Fairhaven, emeritus) has published a review of The Story of Drama: Tragedy, Comedy and Sacrifice from the Greeks to the Present, by Gary Day (Bloomsbury Methuen Drama, 2016). The review appears in The Journal of Dramatic Theory and Criticism (Fall, 2017), 136-138.
John All, director of Western's Mountain Environments Research Institute, will present "Climate Change and Civil War on the Mount Everest Massif" on Nov. 18 at the Cosmos Club in Washington DC. The event is co-sponsored by the Explorers Club and the Circumnavigators Club. For more info, see:
http://www.explorersclubdc.org/event/ecwg-dinner-john-all-climate-change-and-civil-war-on-the-mt-everest-massif/
Assistant Professor John Gialanella of the Design Department recently participated as a keynote speaker at AIGA Phoenix’s Method+Madness Conference. Along with fellow team members Jen Duran and Eric Torres, Gialanella and the team spoke to conference attendees about their grant-funded AIGA Innovate project. The project attempts to reach underserved middle and high school students and encourage them to become designers and creative professionals.
WWU University Architect and Director of Facilities Development and Capital Budget Rick Benner has been chosen to be on the jury of the AIA Washington Council Civic Design Awards.
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