LIVE ON THE WEB: Two UW oceanography graduate students recently got a rare opportunity to report their research live on the Internet. Jon Kaye and Julie Huber, who are studying the thermophilic microbes that live near undersea vents, filed a series of field reports on the World Wide Web site of ABC News in August and September. The pair also answered readers’ questions via the Internet.

WHITE HOUSE HONORS: The UW Center for Women in Science and Engineering has received a 1998 Presidential Award for Excellence in Science, Mathematics and Engineering Mentoring. Earlier honored by the Women in Engineering Program and Advocates Network, the center has created a curriculum for training mentors. The presidential award comes with a certificate and a $10,000 mentoring grant.

DESIGN AWARDS: Two designers from UW’s Publications Services won several awards in the annual University & College Designers Association competition. John Linse and Jo-Ann Sire received awards of excellence for their work on College of Forest Resources and Voices, the Undergraduate Experience. Sire won an additional award for Report to Contributors. The awards were among 65 given out of 1,100 entries.

KUDOS: Psychology Professor Davida Teller received the Lighthouse Pisart Vision Award, given annually to an individual who has “distinguished himself or herself by invention or otherwise in the prevention, cure, treatment or care of blindness” . . . Psychology Professor Elizabeth Loftus received an Honorary Doctor of Science degree from the University of Portsmouth in England, and delivered the commencement address . . . Betty Jane Narver, the director of the U.W. Institute on Public Policy and Management, has been appointed chairwoman of the Washington Workforce Training and Education Coordinating Board, the agency responsible for advising the Governor and the Legislature on the state’s work force training system . . . Luis Ramirez, director of the Ethnic Cultural Center and Theater was reappointed to the Washington State Arts Commission through 2001 by Governor Gary Locke. ¶