GREY AND GREEN: The University of Washington’s MBA program was one of eight nationwide honored by the World Resources Institute in recognition of outstanding curricula and activities focusing on the environment. The institute’s report, called Grey Pinstripes and Green Ties, was based on a leadership survey of graduate business schools considering such things as activities in student coursework in environment-business training; the amount of institutional support provided for faculty and activities on business and the environment; and a separate literature search for faculty publications on these topics.

WOMEN LEADERS: When one of the United Kingdom’s highest-ranking women, Baroness Symons of Vernham Dean, was in Seattle recently, she was treated to a Lake Washington cruise, where she visited with invited women leaders. Among those on board, according to the Seattle Times’ Jean Godden, were sociologist Pepper Schwartz and cardiothoracic surgeon Margaret Allen. Baroness Symons is a prominent trade unionist who has pushed to recruit more women and minorities for UK’s diplomatic corps.

KUDOS: For the second year in a row, Custodial Services secretary B.J. Livingston is part of a calligraphy exhibit sponsored by the U.S. Postal Service. Livingston’s work appears in the Graceful Envelope exhibit at the U.S. Postal Service Museum in Washington, D.C. ¶