OUTSTANDING DIETITIANS: The Washington State Dietetic Association named Cristine Trahms the 2004 Outstanding Dietitian of the Year at its recent annual meeting. The Outstanding Dietitian of the Year honors a dietitian who has demonstrated leadership and who has served as an outstanding role model of professionalism and a source of inspiration to others in dietetics. This award is the most prestigious recognition that WSDA can give. Trahms has an appointment with the 91探花Department of Pediatrics, Division of Genetics, is a core faculty member in the Nutritional Sciences Department, and is head of nutrition at the Center on Human Development and Disability. Sharon Feucht received the Washington State Dietetic Association 2004 Award for Excellence in Community Practice. The community practice award was established in 1990 to promote member worth and to acknowledge the professional contributions of community practioners in Washington State. Feucht is a nutritionist at the Center on Human Development and Disability.
ROYAL JULIAN: Statistics Professor Julian Besag has been named a Fellow of the British Royal Society 鈥渇or his pioneering work on the statistical theory and analysis of spatial processes, especially conditional lattice systems. His work has been seminal in recent statistical developments ranging from image analysis to Markov chain Monte Carlo methods.鈥�
ARBORETUM SALE: Complete container gardens, drought-tolerant plants and a broad selection of plants and accessories for summer gardening will be available at the Arboretum Foundation鈥檚 Summer Solstice Sale, 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday, June 12, at the Washington Park Arboretum鈥檚 Graham Visitors Center, 2300 Arbotetum Drive.
Container gardens will include designs by Ciscoe Morris, Dan Hinkley and Ben Hammontree, as well as creations by Arboretum volunteers. Plant selections from the Arboretum鈥檚 Plant Donations program and Pat Calvert Greenhouse also will be available. Designers and gardening professionals will be on hand to help shoppers 鈥渃reate a garden鈥� with available plants and containers.
For information, call 206-325-4510 or go to Proceeds benefit Washington Park Arboretum.
KUDOS: Philip Bell, assistant professor of education, has been appointed to the Board on Science Education with the National Academies, a group charged with overseeing issues in science education from early childhood through adulthood.
Do you know someone who deserves kudos for an outstanding achievement, award, appointment or book publication? If so, send that person鈥檚 name, title and achievement to uweek@u.washington.edu.