Kristina Scharp receives early career honor from International Communication Association

The International Communication Association has given , 91探花assistant professor in the Department of Communication, its 2021 .

The award, one of seven presented during the association’s annual international held virtually May 27 to 31, honors a scholar no more than seven years past their doctoral degree.

Scharp’s work, the association noted, has “greatly contributed to theory development and understanding in the areas of family estrangement and distancing, and it illustrates a rigorous commitment to securing hard-to-reach samples and employing mixed methods with mostly qualitative results.”

Read more at the Department of Communication .

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Allen School’s Paul Beame receives distinguished service award from Association for Computing Machinery

, professor in the Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering, has been honored by the Association for Computing Machinery, or ACM, for more than 20 years supporting the theoretical computer science community.

Beame has received the , from the association’s Special Interest Group on Algorithms and Computation Theory, or . In its , the group thanked Beamed for his “selfless devotion” and called him its “SIGACT oracle and adviser to those responsible for running our main conferences every year.”

An associate director of the Allen School, Beame is a member of the theory of computation group . His research is concerned with computational complexity and proving lower bounds on the resources needed for solving computational problems.

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Dr. Douglas Paauw honored for teaching by American College of Physicians 听

, 91探花professor of general internal medicine in the School of Medicine and director of the 91探花Medical Student Program, has been awarded the by the , a national organization of internists.

The award, established in 1969 and renamed for its first woman , is given annually to a fellow or of the college “who has demonstrated the ennobling qualities of a great teacher.” Paauw was a master of the college in 2009.

He joined the School of Medicine faculty in 1988 and is a physician at the 91探花Medical Center’s general internal medicine and virology clinics. Paauw also received distinguished teaching awards from the 91探花in 1997 and from its School of Medicine four times. He is the UW’s Rathmann Family Foundation Endowed Chair in Patient Centered Clinical Education.

Paauw will receive the award at the college’s annual convocation ceremony in April 2020 at the Los Angeles Convention Center.

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Dr. Joel Kaufman named new editor-in-chief of environmental health journal

, 91探花professor of environmental and occupational health sciences, medicine and epidemiology, has been named the new editor-in-chief of the journal .

The journal is published by the National Institute of Environmental Health and Sciences, which is part of the National Institutes of Health.

Kaufman is a practicing physician who has published more than 200 research papers and review articles on environmental science. Since joining the 91探花faculty more than two decades ago, he has maintained a research program that encompasses epidemiology, inhalation toxicology, clinical medicine and exposure sciences. He previously served as interim dean for the School of Public Health.

Day-to-day operations for the journal will be carried out by full-time staff under Kaufman鈥檚 direction. The journal now enables its editor-in-chief to continue conducting research and teaching at their home institution.听

Kaufman has served on editorial boards and peer review panels for many of the leading clinical medicine and environmental health journals. He previously served on the editorial review board, then as an associate editor, of Environmental Health Perspectives before taking over as interim dean of the School of Public Health in 2016. .

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Allen School faculty members honored by Association for Computing Machinery, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers 听

The , or ACM, has professors and of the Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering as among 58 new , honored for their “far-reaching accomplishments that define the digital age.”

Also, the , or IEEE, has named Allen School professor as among its Smith also has an appointment with the Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering.

These announcements bring to 24 the number of current or former Allen School faculty members made an ACM Fellows, and 16 who have been named IEEE Fellows.

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Sam Luboga of Department of Family Medicine to lead Ugandan education commission

, a 91探花clinical associate professor in the Department of Family Medicine has been named to lead the of The Republic of Uganda. Luboga is also an associate professor of health sciences at , in Kampala, Uganda. The appointment calls for Luboga to lead the nation’s civil service teacher’s personnel board, responsible for ensuring the high caliber of Uganda’s teaching workforce.

“I will make sure that the reputation of the Education Service Commission remains high and grows more,” Luboga said in an about his appointment.