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Alumni
News
College of Education graduates are committed to educational excellence, equity in the classroom, and improving education across the nation.
The College of Education is committed to keeping you informed about what’s happening in Miller Hall and in classrooms around the state. Through this site and our eNews publication, we also keep you up to date on what your colleagues and classmates are doing
Alumni Recognition
Featured Alumni
UW College of Education graduates are an amazingly distinguished and diverse group. On a quarterly basis, the College chooses one or more of its alums to spotlight in an in-depth interview. Find out how COE grads are impacting our world. Or, tell us about a colleague who should be feature. Email edudev@u.washington.edu with your recommendation.
Featured Alumni archives
- Seattle Principal Richard Ito Models Excellence in Education
- Tyrone Howard: Mentoring To Make A Difference
- College of Education Alum, Carole Kubota, Leaves Her Mark on Science Education
- The Center for Multicultural EducationGraduates are Educating Future Leaders
- Distinguished College of Education Grad Virginia Stimpson Brings Research to the Classroom
Alumni Awards
College of Education Distinguished Graduate Award
2007: Drs. Dan and Lynda King
Drs. Dan and Lynda King have worked as a team for the over thirty years, bringing great honor to the University of Washington through their work on veterans' issues, with a primary focus on post traumatic stress disorder. Their work is collaboration in the finest sense in which neither one could be singled out as the primary person.
Dan and Lynda met when she was an Army nurse at Madigan Hospital. Dan had recently returned from Viet Nam, having been blinded by shrapnel.
They were married and Dan started his MEd and PhD in Educational Psychology. His Masters was in rehabilitation counseling and for his doctorate, finished in 1975, he moved into Measurement, Research Design, and Statistics. Lynda finished her masters in Psychosocial Nursing in 1975 and a PhD also in Measurement, Research Design, and Statistics in 1979. Lynda's dissertation received the Gordon C. Lee Award.
In 1979, they both accepted faculty positions in the Department of Psychology at Central Michigan University where they stayed until 1995, each rising to rank of professor. During that time they were extremely productive scholars with several published tests including the Sex-Roles Egalitarianism Scale. Each received the Michigan Association of Governors Distinguished Professor Award.
Over time more of their work focused on issues related to returning veterans and post-traumatic stress disorders. In 1992 they received a prestigious large grant from NIMH titled, "PTSD and its Etiology: A Quintet of Inquires." During the term of this grant they were invited to move to Boston and join the faculty at Boston University in the School of Psychology and Psychiatry, and simultaneously become Research Associates at the Massachusetts Veterans Epidemiology Research and Information Center (MAVERIC). Dan and Lynda King’s work was seminal in focusing scientific and political attention on challenges faced by returning veterans from Vietnam and the Gulf War. Their center is among the nations leading centers for studying PTSD and other veteran issues. Lynda is a Research Psychologist in the Women’s Health Sciences Division and Dan is Research Psychologist and Coordinator of Postdoctoral Research Programs in the Behavioral Science Division.
In their careers, Dan and Lynda have published over 100 scholarly articles and given several hundred presentations at scholarly meetings. They have had continuous grant funding since 1979. Their work is recognized both by their invitation to join the National Center for Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder at the Boston VA Medical Center and recognition as co-recipients of the 2002 Robert S Laufer Award for Outstanding Scientific Achievement in the Field of PTSD presented by the International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies. They are leaders of research in a field that is crucial for us to understand. Their work is methodologically outstanding and many of their articles are citation classics (e.g. multiple Psychological Bulletin papers that were the first meta- analyses and critiques of research on the psychological effects of military service in Vietnam; multiple papers in the journal Sex Roles on their Sex-role Egalitarianism Measure). A few examples of their firsts include: They were among the first to do systematic research on female Vietnam veterans. They were among the first to document factors that account for long term health and adjustment of Vietnam-era repatriated prisoners of war. They are on the forefront of research to document self-reported somatic and psychological symptoms in Persian Gulf War Veterans. They have developed Web-based, interactive programs to enhance coping and resilience among military families facing deployment.
These are two wonderful people who have dedicated their professional lives to issues that are close to both of their hearts. They are making a difference in how we understand and treat PTSD and jointly deserve recognition as the 2007 Distinguished Graduates of the College of Education.
- 2006: Carolyn Webster-Stratton
- 2005: George Sugai
- 2004: George Sugai
- 2003: Neil Theobald
- 2002: Linda Forrest
- 2001: Valerie Ooka Pang
- 2000: Patricia A. Wasley
- 1999: James E. Minstrell
- 1998: Felix Billingsley
- 1998: Harold E. Morse
- 1998: Ann E. Foley
- 1997: Terry Bergeson
- 1996: Clayton J. Vollan
- 1995: Elaine Aoki
- 1994: David L. Haury
- 1993: Walter C. Parker
- 1992: Donald B. Bailey, Jr.
- 1991: Colleen Blankenship (Kennedy)
- 1989: Richard W. Clark
- 1988: Amnuay Tapingkae
- 1988: Woong Sun Hong
- 1987: John Corbally, Jr.
- 1986: Frank B. Brouillet
Other Awards
Carole Kubota: 2005 UW Distinguished Teacher Award
Keep us posted
Let us know if you or a colleague have received an award, presented at a conference, been published, or have some other accomplishment to report, let us know: edudev@u.washington.edu
Miller Hall Chronicle
The Miller Hall Chronicle is published once a year for all College of Education alumni. It provides an update on the happenings in the College of Education—both on campus and in the community.
College of Education Mentoring Network
The College of Education Mentoring Network brings together a remarkable group of young scholars, educators, and activists who completed degrees in the College and have gone on to make distinctive contributions to the field of education. We believe that these graduates can help us to better understand how the College works with students of color, and what things we might pay attention to in our local climate and culture.
