MARINE WINNERS: Marine Studies Professor Marc Hershman has been given the Puget Sound Maritime Achievement Award by the Marine Directory and the Seattle Maritime Week Committee. Hershman is the founder of Waterfront Awareness, a nonprofit organization dedicated to public education and promotion of waterfront education projects, and has overseen the establishment of a maritime interpretive center, set to open this summer. Professor Emeritus of International Studies George Taylor has been given the Puget Sound Ancient Mariner Award by the same groups, recognizing his longtime advocacy of international trade in Washington State.

COACHING WINNERS: A group of five gifted Latino high school students from Texas is on its way to Washington, D.C. for the national history day competition with a little help from American Ethnic Studies Professor Erasmo Gamboa. The students, who attend Nimitz High School in Houston, were researching the World War II bracero program for a local history fair competition, when they discovered Gamboa’s book, Mexican Labor and World War II: Braceros in the Pacific Northwest. The book became one of the resources the students used to put together the winning entry in the district competition. From there, the students went on to win the regional and then Texas history fairs.

In preparation for the national competition, which begins June 13, Gamboa was interviewed by the students, sent them photographs used in his book, agreed to review their project and also urged them to visit with and offered to help set up a meeting with the Mexican ambassador in Washington. He also provided the students with the names of former braceros living in the Northwest for interviews.

“I was struck by the depth of their understanding, objectivity and balance, research and determination to understand history,” said Gamboa. “They located me through the Internet and conducted research at Rice University and the University of Houston. This is very impressive and uncommon for high school students. But then they are not ordinary students.”

MARKET OPENS: Once again the University District Farmers Market will be operating at the corner of University Way and NE 50^th St. for the summer. The market is open from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. each Saturday through Oct. 31 and features fruits, vegetables, herbs, and other items such as cheese and eggs.

KUDOS: News and Information staffer Fred Cordova—along with his wife, Dorothy—will receive an honorary doctorate from Seattle University at its graduation June 14. Fred and Dorothy teach in the Ethnic Studies Program . . . Barry Hyman, Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Public Affairs, recently had his book, Fundamentals of Engineering Design, published by Prentice-Hall, Inc . . . Jeanne Heuving, associate professor in the Liberal Studies program at the UW Bothell, has received a summer stipend award from the National Endowment for the Humanities to work on her manuscript, “Devastating Poetry: Love and Sexuality in H.D., Laura (Riding) Jackson, and Edna St. Vincent Millay”. . . Aeronautics and Astronautics Professor Reiner Decher was awarded a Senior Research Fulbright Fellowship to study transportation technology, business and policy at the Technical University of Berlin for the 1998-99 academic year . . . Associate Professor of Aeronautics and Astronautics Eli Livne’s paper, “Integrated Aeroservoelastic Optimization: Status and Direction,” was selected as the recipient of the best paper award at the American Society of Mechanical Engineers Conference . . . Research Associate Professor of Psychology Virginia Gunderson has been appointed to the American Psychological Association’s Committee on Animal Research and Ethics . . . History Professor Robin Stacey has won the John Nicholas Brown Prize for the best first book in the medieval field. The title of the book is The Road to Judgment: From Custom to Court in Medieval Ireland and Wales . . . Urban Design and Planning Professor Donald Miller has won an award from The American Institute of Certified Planners for best paper presented at the national conference. Also, Miller’s book, Urban Environmental Planning, was recently published by Avebury . . . UW Extension received a Distinguished Independent Study Course award from the University Continuing Education Association for its distance learning course, “Project Management.” . . . News and Information staffer Paul Lowenberg has been named a member of the Science Communication Workgroup, created to advise NASA on how it can best communicate about science and technology . . . Statistics and Sociology Professor Adrian Raftery has received the Population Association of America’s Clifford C. Clogg Award, which recognizes distinguished work in population statistics.

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