April 2016

University of Washington Bothell students are celebrating the planet every day this week with actions and informative events leading up to Friday’s Earth Day.

Dan Berger participated in a roundtable on "Black Radicals and the Law" at the annual conference of the Organization of American Historians. During the conference, the OAH announced that Berger was appointed to the OAH Distinguished Lectureship Program, a speaker's bureau of the association's leading scholars.

Brad Lakey, who is finishing his master’s in education, has won a Fulbright English Teaching Assistantship Award and will teach the next school year in Peru. A Marine Corps veteran, Lakey is University of Washington Bothell’s 10th Fulbright awardee.

A 20-foot cargo container parked near the Truly House is not part of more campus construction. It’s the capstone project for a group of mechanical engineering seniors who are turning it into a solar-powered vegetable cooler.

Pollster John Zogby will present a free public lecture at University of Washington Bothell on April 27, co-sponsored by the chancellor’s office and the UW Bothell American Muslim Research Initiative. Zogby’s lecture on The Changing Face of American Society and Politics in the 21st Century will focus on the evolving demographics and minorities in America and historic parallels to Islamophobia.