Forum to showcase fellows' work

The annual Huckabay Forum, showcasing three winners of the Huckabay Teaching Fellowships, will be at 3:30 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 23 in the Walker-Ames Room, in Kane Hall.

Huckabay Fellowships are one-quarter awards intended to give graduate students an opportunity to work on a specific project focused on teaching and learning at the college and university level. Projects are proposed by students, who find faculty teaching mentors, either from the UW or from a nearby community college, college, or university to collaborate with.

The students and mentors who will present the projects include Fellow Carlos Tovares, geography and mentor Ana Mari Cauce, psychology; Fellow Brad Davidson, zoology and mentor Martha Groom, interdisciplinary arts and sciences, UW-Bothell; and Fellow Amanda Graham, speech communication and mentors John Stewart, speech communication, and Shahid Naeem, zoology.

Tovares’ project is an upper level American Ethnic Studies class called Global America: Race and the Contemporary U.S. City. The class, which emphasizes active learning through Web-based publication, is cross-listed in geography and designed to foster engagement with the issues of race and ethnicity in U.S. urban cultural politics.

Davidson’s project is a Marine-Diversity and Conservation course designed to be inquiry-based. The course involves a mixture of lectures, field trips and inquiry-based exercises.

Graham is developing a new course in environmental communication to engage upper level undergraduate students from a wide range of backgrounds in a collaborative effort to merge communication and ecological theory. ¶