Last month, The Evergreen State College’s radio station, KAOS 89.3, was celebrated as one of the top ten Community Radio Stations in our nation. The accolades come from the Princeton Review and the magazine, Performer. You can learn more about the role of community and non-commercial radio stations through this great article!
Last month Bre Pettis ’95 was featured on the cover of Wired Magazine. His desktop 3-D printer may very well change the world!
Bre was also featured on the National Public Radio program, The Scratch.
Coontz on Al-Jazeera via CCAM
Last week students, faculty and staff in Evergreen’s Center for Creative and Applied Media (CCAM) linked author and Evergreen faculty member Stephanie Coontz to Al-Jazeera’s web show, The Stream. The topic was her September op-ed piece in the the New York Times, The Myth of Male Decline. Give it a read and talk back on this controversial topic.
We hope you’re as proud of the CCAM as we are — a great facility that allows Evergreen students to connect with the world.
This month, the Washington Center for the Book announced the winners of the 2012 Washington State Book Awards. Six outstanding books published by Washington authors in 2011 were selected. Nikki McClure ’91 received the Scandiuzzi Children’s Book Award for her book, To Market, To Market. You can click here to learn about the other recipients and to read the library’s full press release.
Most prison inmates don’t spend their time nurturing Oregon spotted frogs or making substantive contributions to science. But this weekend, Evergreen’s Sustainable Prisons Project received national media attention for doing just that. Read the coverage by the Associated Press. In addition, our own Photoland compiled a multimedia report.
This October, Seattle’s Office of Arts & Cultural Affairs appointed Randy Engstrom ’99 as interim director. Randy is founder and president of Reflex Strategies, a cultural and community based consulting services. He has worked with innovative and emerging local community groups such as Youngstown Cultural Arts Center and Washington Bus Education Fund that focus on youth engagement through the arts.
Provost Michael Zimmerman co-authored this Op-ed piece with Sandi Everlove, chief learning officer of Washington STEM: Don’t pit science and math education against the liberal arts | Opinion | The Seattle Times.
What do you think?