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| Westside Media Look To CWU Geologist For Expertise | Feb. 28 is the one-year anniversary of the Nisqually earthquake near Olympia. KING 5 television broadcast a special report about that quake and the possibility of future earthquakes. Reporter Glen Farley turned to the eastside of the mountains and CWU geologist Meghan Miller to find the expertise. "She's been excellent to work with," Farley praises. "She's accommodating and really pumped about the work she does. So many times when we interview academe they keep the enthusiam hidden inside. Meghan doesn't hide her enthusiasm at all. She's doing some really interesting things, and I look forward to working with her again." Seattle Post-Intelligencer science reporter Tom Poulson has also found Miller to be a great treasure. He's utilizing Miller's expertise for a special P.I. series about earthquakes. |
| CWU Professor Named State's Best | Robert E. Holtfreter, a Central Washington University Distinguished Professor of Accounting and Research, is the Washington Society of Certified Public Accountants' Outstanding Educator of the Year. The award recognizes Holtfreter's excellence in classroom teaching and his involvement in the accounting profession. He has held high-level leadership positions in numerous organizations, including the American Accounting Association, Institute of Management Accountants, Association of Certified Fraud Examiners, North American Accounting Society and the Washington Society of Certified Public Accountants. |
| Geological Sciences Student Earns Top Honors | Central Washington University senior Bridget Diefenbach won one of five student presentation awards at the American Geophysical Union meeting in San Francisco. "This is the major professional meeting for solid-earth, ocean, atmospheric and planetary scientists," Dr. Charles Rubin, CWU geological sciences chair, says. "It's rare that an undergraduate presents research results at such a meeting, much less to walk away with one of the coveted student prizes." Diefenbach was the only undergraduate to receive an award. She presented a poster on the "Origin of the 1974 Eruptions of Kilauea Volcano, Hawaii, by Magma Mixing: Evidence From Mineral Chemistry, and Crystal Size Distributions." |
| CWU Fulbright Scholar Stays Busy in Korea | Bang-Soon Yoon is less than halfway through her Fulbright Scholar program in Seoul, South Korea, and she already has taught classes at two universities, conducted research, made five presentations and published an article. A native of South Korea, Yoon sees many changes since she last lived there more than 20 years ago. "From a personal standpoint, it was hard to adjust," Yoon said. "The changing nature of Korea from a traveler's point of view is quite different from that of a resident. It is an active place for young people, and it was a very eye-opening experience." Hugh Spall, CWU's other Fulbright Scholar, left in January for five months in Pecs, a city of 175,000 people in southwest Hungary. He is teaching in the areas of international business law and business economics. |
