IT TAKES A TEAM TO RAISE MONEY: To be successful in the competitive world of grant seeking, a principal investigator doesn’t stand alone. For example, Tom G. Colonnese, assistant vice president for minority affairs and director of American Indian Studies, is principal investigator for the $32 million U.S. Department of Education grant for GEAR UP (Gaining Early Awareness and Readiness for Undergraduate Programs) Project aimed at improving education attainment in the lower Yakima Valley, but he credits a long list of people for the proposal’s success; a $1 million Ronald E. McNair Post-Baccalaureate Program grant and a $1 million NASA American Indian Science Technology Education Consortium grant.

Colonnese explained his success this way: “No major grant out of OMA is ever a single effort; each grant is the work of a team of individuals. Other individuals who played important roles in gaining the GEAR UP and McNair grants are Bill Baker, Nancy Westmore, Cathy Thomas, Tamara Holman, Gabe Gallardo, Barb Peterson, Mike Welton, Jennifer Dobbins and Jeanette James. Other individuals who played important roles in the American Indian Science and Technology Education Consortium grant are Joe C’ de Baca, Francine Campone, Alison Wheatley, Tim Olson, Scott Pinkham, Sylvia Martinez and Julia Rogers. I also wish to thank the scores of faculty members who routinely help with our grants, and to thank some of the UW staff who must tire of seeing me come through their door with yet another proposal that requires their input:
Tim Washburn, John Swiney, Gerald Gilmore, and Eric Godfrey.”

EXPOSITORY EXCELLENCE: Victor Klee, UW professor of mathematics, and co-author John R. Reay of Western Washington University received the Carl B. Allendoerfer Award from the Mathematical Association of America for their article, “Surprising but Easily Proved Geometric Decomposition Theorem.” The award recognizes articles of “expository excellence published in Mathematics Magazine.” Klee and Reay’s article appeared in the Feb. 1998 issue. ¶