WINTER 2010 The Newsletter for Alumni & Friends of the University of Washington Bothell UW Bothell Celebrates Student Spotlight Trackin’ the Dawgs – 20 Years Brendan Mulcahy Alumni Class Notes Page 4 Page 9 Page 11 CHANCELLOR’S Publisher Richard Penny Editor Elizabeth Fischtziur CORNER Contributors Melissa Arias Thaddeus R. Kleckley Kelly Snyder reetings alumni and friends, Hillary Sara U Never before has there been a greater Print Design Paul Huereque time to reconnect with the University of Web Design Jason Beard Washington Bothell. We are growing and Photography Marc Studer G advancing at a very exciting and rapid pace and if you have Brian DalBalcon not been to campus in a while, now is the time to come To learn more about UW Bothell or to view this back home! newsletter online, please visit our Web site at: www.uwb.edu/insight or call 425.352.3642. This year we boast record applications, growth of new Have comments about Insight? Please send them to: [email protected]. programs, and the opening of new facilities…all in a year marked by major budget UW BOTHELL MISSION cuts. In fact, we are currently 116% enrolled but still maintain the high academic UW Bothell holds the student-faculty relationship to be standards and intimate setting that is the signature of our campus. paramount. We provide access to excellence in higher education through innovative and creative curricula, To accomplish this in a ‘normal’ year would have been difficult but to do so interdisciplinary teaching and research, and a dynamic community of multicultural learning. with the current state financial pressures is nothing short of amazing. Our entire university, faculty, staff, students and community supporters used the budget UW BOTHELL 2009–10 ADVISORY BOARD George Northcroft, Chair King County Executive Office crisis as a rallying moment. We worked together to cut through the red tape, focus Bill Abbott CBRE our efforts on our core mission and move forward mindful of the needs of our David Brooks Providence Regional Medical students and the community. Center, Everett William Christopher Cascadia Community College As you read through this edition, you will see that this positive momentum Sally Gray Community Volunteer Al Higginson Hubspan has always existed at our university. How else could we have made it all these 20 John Kinsella Environmental Resource Mgmt. years? Bob Leach D.A. Davidson & Company Jud Marquardt LMN Architects You will read about our early accomplishments and meet some of our found- Holli Martinez The Martinez Foundation ing faculty, notable alumni and top-notch students. I invite you to share in this Euan Menzies Vertafore, Inc. Jim Pinkelman Microsoft history and help us as we look towards our future. Your support has been pivotal Bill Ptacek King County Library System thus far; we appreciate it greatly and look forward to reconnecting with you soon. Rick Shea Spiration Deborah Wilds College Success Foundation Kind regards, UW BOTHELL 2009-10 ALUMNI COUNCIL Executive Committee: Chair: Calvin Kavalski (Liberal Studies ’97, MBA ’03) Chair-Elect: Joe Santos (Liberal Studies ‘97) Secretary: Michelle Gamboa (CSS ’05) Past Chair: Jeremy Reichelt (Bus. ’04) Committee Chairs: Kenyon S. Chan Awards & Recognition: Rob Amidon (Bus. ’08) Chancellor Membership & Marketing: Jeffrey Siegel (MBA ‘08) Legacy & Spirit: Rob Stevens (Bus. ’07) Annual Events & Programs: Kim O’Neill (MBA ‘06) Constituency Representatives: Business Representative: Chris Wille (Bus. ’04) CSS Representative: Peter Ung (CSS ‘08) IAS Representative: Mary Howisey (IAS ‘02) Nursing (BSN) Representative: Maryl Skjei (BSN ‘08) Business (MBA) Representatives: Eric Helzer (MBA ‘08) Policy Study (MAPS) Representative: Sarah Amos Bond (MAPS ’09) Education (MEd) Representative: Vicky North (MEd ‘08) At-Large Advisory Board: Sandra Brewer (IAS ‘00) Eleice Colbert (Bus. ’08) Timothy Ehling (BSN ’05, MN ’07) Georgia Kalasountas (Liberal Studies ’98) Katherine Kloster (CSS ‘99) Colton Lindelof (IAS ’09) Ketan Shah (MBA ’09) Laura Singletary (Hoffmann) (IAS ’03) Fred Sundin (IAS ’97) Mary Visconte (Bus. ’06) Arijana Wall (IAS ’06) CAMPUS UPDATES ENROLLMENT AND FACILITIES When classes began in September 2009, the campus welcomed 2,374 full time equivalent (FTE) students, or a headcount of 2,801. By comparison, when classes began in Fall 2008, UW Bothell had an FTE of 1,899 and a headcount of 2,288. Says Chancellor Kenyon S. Chan, “These numbers are a great reflection of our institution and its benefits to community advisors and seven international students. our region. Students know that when they attend Substantial expansion of the housing community is UW Bothell they will not only receive the knowledge, anticipated for 2010-11 and subsequent years. skills and professional preparation needed to be Also in Fall 2009, UW Bothell opened its Eastside successful in the market, but they will do so on a Leadership Center in Bellevue. The Center currently campus that encourages and supports student-faculty houses the new Leadership MBA Program and will interaction, collaboration and research.” offer a BA in Business Administration in Fall 2010. The first UW Bothell Student Housing In the works - $5M for the design of a third Community of 42 students opened in Fall 2009 campus building to house the institution’s growing with students residing in the nearby Campus View science, technology, engineering and mathematics apartment complex. Among the residents are three (STEM) offerings. HONORS to Karachi, Pakistan. I was touched by the Commerce, Snohomish County EDC and The Master of Business Administration many people I met and found Karachi to the Trade Development Alliance were in Program has been nationally ranked be a dynamic city. It was a pleasure to work attendance at the event (co-sponsored by Business Week as #3 in the Pacific with the local Pakistani performers and by the City of Bellevue) to welcome the Northwest and #51 in the nation. Says artists and to see the performing arts come Ambassador and to celebrate the eve of Sandeep Krishnamurthy, Professor and to life in ‘Water Calligraphy’.” Diwali. Director of the Business Program, “This Warren Buck, Her Excellency spoke to the sold- ranking is a validation of our efforts to Professor and Chancellor out crowd on the importance of higher bring excellent programs to the region.” Emeritus, participated in education in an increasingly globalized the Around the Americas world. WORLD TRAVELERS sailing expedition in Kanta Kochhar- Winter 2010, traveling NEW RELEASES Lindgren, Associate between North and Mary Abrums, Assistant Professor in Professor in the Buck South America to “build the Nursing Program, released her new Interdisciplinary Arts awareness throughout the Americas of book Moving the Rock: Poverty and Faith & Sciences Program, increasing threats to our fragile ocean in a Black Storefront Church in November recently served as the environment and to mobilize North and 2009. The book “portrays several Kochhar-Lindgren American Cultural Envoy South Americas to take action to improve generations of African American women to Karachi, Pakistan on a trip sponsored the health of our oceans.” whose families migrated from the South by the U.S. State Department with the U.S. UW Bothell hosted Her Excellency to the Pacific Northwest in the 1940s and Consulate-Karachi, in partnership with Meera Shankar, the Indian Ambassador to 1950s.” Says Abrums, “their stories help Faisal Malik, Artistic Director of Thespianz the United us explore how to make a difference in the Theater. States, for world to create social justice.” In this role, she spent 11 days in a dinner in Julie Shayne, Lecturer in the Center Karachi promoting the importance of the her honor in for University Studies & Programs and the arts for diverse communities and as a tool Fall 2009. Interdisciplinary Arts & Sciences Program, for addressing important social issues. Over released They Used to Call Us Witches: Her central project in partnership with 150 Eastside Chilean Exiles, Culture, and Feminism, in Faisal Malik included the writing and business December 2009. In it, Dr. Shayne provides staging of ‘Water Calligraphy,’ a play (with leaders and dignitaries, including members a readable account, from the perspective singing, acting and dancing) on water of the Indian Association of Western of Chilean women in Vancouver, British issues. Says Kochhar-Lindgren, “It was a Washington, and representatives from Columbia, of how organized Chileans real pleasure and honor to be chosen as the the U.S. Department of Commerce, worked to oust the dictatorship of General first American Cultural Envoy in 30 years Washington State Department of Pinochet. UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON BOTHELL 3 COVER STORY CelebratingYears 20he University of Washington Bothell celebrates 20 years of excellence in higher education during the 2009-10 academic year. From its humble beginnings Tin an office space in Canyon Park to its robust surroundings at Bothell, the University has come a very long way and is widely regarded as the regional leader in higher education. UW Bothell combines the benefits of a small campus with the resources and prestige of a world-renowned university and we do so with a personal touch that our students and alumni have really embraced. Students know that at UW Bothell they will receive not only their UW degree, but also build a solid foundation of relevant knowledge, practical skills and professional preparation. Better yet, they experience close student-faculty interaction, collaboration among students and hands-on learning, receiving the best of both worlds - a private school experience at a public school cost. 4 This unique approach to education • Chartered six academic centers, Additional details can be found on our has benefited our over 8,000 alumni and providing advanced opportunities 20 Year Web site: www.uwb.edu/20years. the community-at-large. Over 80% of our for research and programmatic At this site you can enjoy our walk down alumni remain in the area post-graduation, development memory lane and hear from faculty and greatly participating to the local economy • Offered academics from multiple students.