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Week 9 – Autumn 2024

Happy Week 9! We’re nearing the end of the quarter, and with that, loads of events and opportunities abound for the last few weeks of the quarter. Check out the links below for more information about what’s happening on campus and beyond!

Honors Events and Opportunities

Upcoming Courses

Opportunities

Events

Study Abroad in Italy and Study Away on Lopez Island Info Sessions

Would you like to learn more about a summer Study Abroad program in Italy and a Study Away program on Lopez Island, WA?

These student programs are focused on the intersections of human health, community health, and environmental health through the lens of food. Through experiential activities, students are immersed in the local culture and take part in farm tours, food tours, and excursions with local guides like hiking, swimming in tide pools, and afternoons at the beach.  

These programs also offer opportunities to implement an Honors project.  Multiple students from across academic disciplines have done exciting projects related to program themes in the past, ranging from poetry to mathematical modeling.

Please join an upcoming Info Session to learn more!

Info Session Details:

Mon, Dec 2 from 4:30-5:30 in Thompson Hall Rm 235

Past students have said:

  • “The Wellness in the World program was a life-changing course, full of many different learning experiences.”
  • “This past month in Italy has been more formative than I ever thought was possible.”
  • “This program was everything I hoped for and more; the itinerary, our daily activities and interactive class sessions, our insightful tours and amazing tour guides, the gastronomy, and simply being able to fully experience the Italian culture and to learn about the history of every region we visited was absolutely amazing.”
  • “I’ve really started to feel a sense of community, both with the other people in the program but also with the people of the island as a whole and the natural environment, too. The theme of community was consistent for me throughout.”

If you’d like more information, please reach out to Professor Kerry Reding at kreding@uw.edu.

Space in Place Rehearsal Platform

Space in the Place is our new rehearsal platform for you to come into the building to prepare for your next show, event, or class. This opportunity is for Black self-identified artists and cultural workers to reserve space at LANGSTON to strengthen their craft or gather with community. We will have space offered every Thursday from 4pm to 8pm for all of your creative needs that can be accomplished in the West Room (capacity 40) or room 2R (capacity 12-20 depending on set up). You can sign up for 2 hour blocks of time for absolutely FREE. We look forward to seeing your projects come to life.

Please note: For proper planning purposes, reservations will be locked in 3 days in advance. Cancelations are also required at least 3 days in advance. Please plan accordingly.

Sign Up Here:LANGSTON Contacts: Space in the Place ( Rehearsal Drop-In ) (signupgenius.com)

Folks can also choose to visit our website directly to learn more and see our other programs: langstonseattle.org 

Seattle Youth Film Challenge 🎬

ONE WEEK. ONE THEME. ONE CHANCE TO CREATE SOMETHING UNFORGETTABLE.

The theme is announced on December 8 and then it’s ready… set… GO! You will have one week to write, shoot, and edit a short film, submitting the final product by December 15. Join the challenge for a thrilling, fast-paced film-making experience and a chance to screen at the Seattle Black Film Festival, and other prizes!

1st Place will be awarded a gaming console for their school/student center 

Learn more and sign up today at www.youthfilmcollective.org 

Questions? Contact tiffany@youthfilmcollective.org

FREE Policy Camp conference

RSVP to attend Public Policy Camp!
Presented by the Association for Public Policy Analysis & Management (APPAM), the Evans School of Public Policy and Governance, and Seattle Central College.

Are you curious about how policies are made and passed?
Do you want to learn about what a career in public policy looks like? 

If you answered yes to any of the questions above, this conference is for you! Come join us to learn about policy-making and impactful careers in public policy, and network with policymakers and other students who share your passion and curiosity!

Event Date: Friday, March 14, 2025, Time: 9 AM – 4 PM Location: Seattle Central College

Who Should Attend: Undergraduate students interested in public policy. Open to all majors. 

Please share widely with your undergraduate students as appropriate, flyer attached.

Questions can be directed to uwpolicycamp@uw.edu

Register here: https://forms.office.com/r/tmzyYLpX6M?origin=lprLink

Odegaard Writing and Research Center Instructor and TA Resources

On behalf of the Odegaard Writing and Research Center (OWRC), we hope you are having a successful start to Autumn Quarter! 

The OWRC is an interdisciplinary center that offers free writing and research support for UW students, faculty, and staff, including one-on-one peer tutoring appointments for students in both in-person and virtual formats, informational classroom visits, and in-class workshops.   

Connect students with the OWRC by including resource information in your syllabus or incorporating an in-class visit from OWRC staff. Available virtually or in-person, these class visits bring a member of the OWRC staff into the class to provide a friendly and informational introduction to the Center and its services in 5-10 minutes.   

For classes with an emphasis on writing or revision, the OWRC is also pleased to offer Peer Review Workshops. Guided by a member of OWRC staff, these workshops are designed to facilitate positive and productive experiences with peer review by providing an approachable and conversational peer review structure through which to provide and solicit feedback.   

Customized, writing-centered workshops are also available upon request.  

For more information on these support services and answers to frequently asked questions, check out the OWRC website, including our overview of instructor services, or email us at owrc@uw.edu.   

We look forward to working with you and your students!

WIN 2025 COURSE: Disability & Society: A focus on Community and the Outdoors

This winter I’ll be offering the course, Disability & Society: A focus on Community and the Outdoors. This community-engaged course is listed as BECU 391; LSJ 332; CHID; 332; DISST; 332. The pilot sections in the past two years, winter and summer, have been a great success for our students, community partners at The Outdoors For All Foundation, and most importantly people with disabilities who are served by the effort. 

You can learn more about the course here:

FYP Student Leadership positions

First Year Programs is currently recruiting for our First-year Interest Group (FIG) Leader and Virtual Orientation Leader (VOL) student positions!  

FIG Leaders support first-year students by facilitating academic information, campus resources, and common questions in the GEN ST 199 course. Gain lots of experience and development in skills such as public speaking, mentorship, leadership, interpersonal communication skills, and more! 

Virtual Orientation Leaders (VOLs) introduce first-year students to campus resources and course registration through engaging online activities. With the support of advisers, campus leadership, and their team of peers, VOLs will support students in building their UW community. The Virtual Orientation Leader role is a paid position and fully remote. 

Applications are open and the deadline to apply is Friday, January 24, 2025, at 8:00 AM PST. 

Application information, informational videos, and application questions are available for review online at fyp.uw.edu/apply and any questions can be directed to fypadmin@uw.edu. 

Summer Health Professions Education Program (SHPEP) application now open

The application opened November 1 and closes February 5.  Information about the program can be found at https://shpep.org

  • Programs pay students $1000 to participate in the 6-week long summer program
  • Most programs are for freshmen and sophomores but new this year,  2 programs are for sophomores and juniors
  • 2 new programs-University of Albany and Portland State University which are being piloted for 5 years by AAMC

I have several webinars coming up before the holidays that advisers and students are welcome to attend. 

  • Nov 25  3:00 pm PT
  • Nov 26 1:00 pm PT
  • Dec 3 4:00 pm PT
  • Dec 11 12:00 pm PT
  • Dec 17 10:00 am PT
  • Jan 7 4:00 pm PT
  • Jan 15 12:00 pm PT
  • Jan 23 4:00 pm PT

https://washington.zoom.us/j/3117825083

WIN 2025: New Honors Elective Course!

We have recently added a new elective course for Winter 2025: L ARCH 353 (Ssc/A&H)! The Honors Courses page is up to date with these changes, and you can find the course in the time schedule here. Please email jencyli@uw.edu for add codes/questions.

Beinecke Scholarship

The Beinecke Scholarship (https://beineckescholarship.org/) seeks to encourage and enable highly motivated students to pursue graduate study in the arts, humanities and social sciences, and to be courageous in their selection of graduate programs. The scholarship provides $35,000 for a research-focused master’s or doctoral program in the arts, humanities or social sciences to juniors (based on graduation date) who have financial need.

Scholarship & Application Benefits:

If you are considering graduate studies in an arts, humanities or social science field, have a passion for that field, and financial need, consider applying! In addition to being considered for the scholarship, you can use this scholarship application process as a helpful way to get well ahead of the game in preparing for future grad school apps!

The financial benefits the scholarship provides include:

  • $5,000 immediately prior to entering graduate school and
  • $30,000 while attending graduate school.
  • The scholarship can be used at any accredited school in the US or abroad, and recipients are allowed to supplement the award with other scholarships, assistantships and research grants.

Eligibility:

To be eligible for this scholarship, a student must:

  • Be a United States citizen, or a United States national from American Samoa or the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands.
  • Be a college junior pursuing a bachelor’s degree during the 2024-2025 academic year. “Junior” means a student who plans to continue full-time undergraduate study and who expects to receive a baccalaureate degree between December 2025 and August 2026.
  • Plan to enter a research-focused master’s or doctoral program in the arts, humanities or social sciences.
    • Please note: Students in the social sciences who plan to pursue graduate study in neuroscience should not apply for a Beinecke Scholarship.
    • Also, students who plan to pursue professional school programs that emphasize skills and practical analysis over theory and research (such as law, business, education, architecture, journalism, clinical psychology, social work, etc.), are not competitive for selection at the national level.
  • Have a documented history of receiving need-based financial aid during their undergraduate years, with a preference for Pell Grant recipients. Other evidence of meeting this criterion is a student’s history of receiving need-based institutional, state or federal grants-in-aid.
    • An institutional financial aid officer will be required to complete a Financial Data Sheet certifying that the student meets this criterion. During the selection process, the amount of financial need will be one of the factors considered with preference being given to candidates for whom the awarding of a scholarship would significantly increase the likelihood of the student’s being able to attend graduate school.
  • Have demonstrated superior standards of intellectual ability, scholastic achievement and personal promise during their undergraduate career.

Please feel welcome to contact Robin Chang in the UW Office of Merit Scholarships, Fellowships & Awards (robinc@uw.edu; 206-543-2603) with questions or concerns, and please find additional details at https://new.expo.uw.edu/expo/scholarships/beinecke and https://beineckescholarship.org/

UW School of Dentistry Information Session

The UW School of Dentistry will be hosting an in-person information session for prospective applicants on Monday, October 28th.

UW School of Dentistry Information Session

Date: Monday, October 28th

Time: 4pm – 5:30pm

Description: Join us for an in-person information session at the UW School of Dentistry. Please register and RSVP here: University of Washington School of Dentistry Information Session RSVP (google.com)

Where: UW School of Dentistry. Once you RSVP, we will send you room location and directions.

WIN 2025: ENGL 285: Writers on Writing

This is a great class for those who harbor a secret—or not so secret!—love of reading and writing, or those who are just curious about how poets and novelists create their work. In past years, I’ve had students from nearly every major and ranging from freshman to senior. I’ve enjoyed working with all of them.

The class will meet in person, although some of our visiting writers will join us over Zoom. This large class will be broken into smaller groups to provide a sense of community, to share and receive feedback on their own experiments in writing poetry, fiction, and memoir, and to discuss issues raised by the assigned readings. On their own time, students will watch recordings of a wide variety of writers lecturing or reading from their work, read widely, and participate in online discussion forums. This course description provides lots of detail.

Developing a Multilingual and Multicultural Conversational Health Agent for Family Caregivers

Join us on November 21st  at 11:30AM as the UW Consortium for Global Mental Health and the Population Health Initiative hosts a team presentation on “Developing a Multilingual and Multicultural Conversational Health Agent for Family Caregivers.”

This is our second event in a series of six for the 2024-25 year. Lunch is provided for each event in the series. Members of the audience will have a chance to ask questions after the talk and meet Dr. Weichao Yuwen and her research team.

Please register to let us know you’ll be attending!

https://bit.ly/48lOM0o

More About the Topic:

More than 53 million family caregivers in the U.S. provide unpaid care to adults and children living with chronic health conditions. Caregiving tasks and responsibilities significantly impact caregivers’ physical and mental health. Conversational agents with artificial intelligence (AI) technology could provide on-demand and tailored support for them, especially for those from marginalized groups such as caregivers who prefer to speak a language other than English at home. Here we present our recent work in developing and testing a conversational health agent COCO (“Care for Caregivers Online”) and the process of adapting COCO in Chinese and Spanish.

Presenters:

  • Weichao Yuwen, PhD, RN, Associate Professor, UW Tacoma School of Nursing & Healthcare Leadership
  • Liying Wang, PhD, Assistant Professor, Florida State University College of Nursing
  • Priscilla Carmiol-Rodriguez, PhD Student, de Tornyay Center for Healthy Aging predoctoral scholar, UW School of Nursing
  • Serena Jinchen Xie, PhD Student, UW School of Medicine, Department of Biomedical Informatics and Medical Education

Peer Wellness Coaching

Prepare for academic stress this quarter by looking into Peer Wellness Coaching.

Peer Wellness Coaching is a free service offered by UW LiveWell and provides 1:1 goal-oriented sessions to students. If students need support for any sort of well-being goal (i.e. relationship conflicts, managing academic stress), coaches can help them build the skills to solve problems effectively and make intentional, positive change on their wellbeing goals.

Visit the website for more information.

The Bridges Center Survey Study

The Bridges Center is conducting a survey about gig workers and people who use those services. There is an effort going on to overturn the gig worker minimum wage ordinance passed in Seattle after companies hiked up their fees in response. The survey aims to understand these impacts on gig workers and those who use their services!

Self-Service Help on Resumes and Interviews

The UW Seattle Student Tech Fee Committee recently approved funds for two self-service career development tools.  Please note that these tools are currently only available to Seattle students.

Jobscan – 

  • Fine-tune your resume by analyzing it against specific job descriptions. Jobscan highlights crucial keywords, skills, and qualifications employers are looking for. By tailoring your resume to match each job posting, you’ll stand out against Applicant Tracking Systems (ATS) and catch recruiters’ attention. 
  • https://careers.uw.edu/resources/jobscan
  • Images you can use to promote are here.

Yoodli – 

  • Yoodli helps you simulate mock interviews and get feedback in private (Grammarly for speech). With Yoodli, you’ll get real-time and judgment-free coaching on your body language, conciseness, filler words, and more. 
  • https://careers.uw.edu/resources/yoodli-ai-interview-coach/
  • Images you can use to promote are here.

You can find additional self-service tools here – https://careers.uw.edu/resources/category/free-subscriptions-for-huskies/

CELE Opportunities

Our opportunities are open to students of all disciplines.  Thank you! 

  • Register: CELE K-12 Tutors and Mentors for Winter 2025  

Passionate about educational equity and interested in gaining experience working with K-12 students from diverse backgrounds?  Tutoring and mentoring are rewarding experiences and a great way to engage with the local community. Enroll in EDUC 260 and 401 this Winter quarter to learn about K-12 educational equity issues while tutoring in a K-12 Seattle Public School classroom or mentoring high school students in post-secondary planning.  Enroll during Winter 2024 course registration period. Visit our website to learn more. 

  • Register: LEAD 100 (Learning Leadership in Theory and Practice) for Winter 2025 

Are you looking for a unique course to help you develop your own leadership potential and make a positive difference in your communities?  Through exploring contemporary leadership theories with a critical lens and engaging in activities to translate theory into practice, LEAD 100 (Learning Leadership in Theory and Practice) aims to give students the knowledge and tools to practice authentic and socially responsible leadership.  This course is designed as the first of three required courses for the Minor in Leadership.  Offered M&W 3:30-5:20 p.m.  SLN: 16794 

  • Apply:  Husky Leadership Certificate 

Through the Husky Leadership Certificate (HLC), students identify, articulate and demonstrate their leadership learning, growth and accomplishments. Students create a leadership e-portfolio and are matched with their own mentor (faculty member/staff member/alumni) who helps them reflect upon and give voice to their leadership development. We are seeking Huskies who practice leadership in a variety of ways. Our leaders are change-agents, entrepreneurs, scholars, activists, athletes, educators and more. 4th and 5th year students: This is your opportunity to reflect on your leadership development journey during your undergraduate education!  Application deadline: November 14.  Visit our website to learn more and apply. 

  • Apply: Jumpstart Corps Members 

UW Jumpstart is currently hiring students to help us in our mission to prepare preschoolers for kindergarten. Members have the unique opportunity to inspire young children to learn, serve in a local community, collaborate with others on a team, and build professional skills. All members receive high quality training to help them implement Jumpstart’s outcome-based program, promote children’s school success, and build family engagement. Open until filled.  Visit our website for more position details and how to apply today! 

  • Apply: Work-Study Tutors (America Reads) 

Work-Study Tutors is a program where UW students tutor weekly for the school year at target schools in Seattle. Tutors focus on reading and math skills with elementary, middle and early high school students and build strong relationships with youth by making a commitment to their tutoring site during the academic year. Tutors support the Seattle Public Schools’ effort to promote educational equity for all students, with a focus on under-resourced schools. Tutors must be work-study eligible. Visit our website to learn more and apply by December 2 for a Winter 2025 start date. 

  • Apply: Spring CELEbration Event Support Internship 

The Spring CELEbration Intern will serve as a member of the CELE Center Spring Celebration planning team, supporting the planning and logistics for CELE’s department-wide, end-of-year presentations of learning event on May 7th, 2025, located at the HUB. The intern will focus on projects such as event advertisement and promotion, social media, presenter registration support, webpage maintenance, communications/marketing, committee support, presenter prep sessions, and will support event set-up and clean up.  The internship term is January 2025-June 2025. The intern will work up to 10 hours per week with flexible scheduling. View the full internship description.  The application is open now and closes 11/29/24 at 11:59pm. Apply now HERE. 

  • Explore: NextGen Civic Leader Corps  

The UW NextGen Civic Leader Corps aims to spark, hone and recognize a deeper commitment to public and community service for undergraduate students. ​This is a great opportunity to meet other Huskies and students across the country who are interested in public service as well as explore government, non-profit and social venture careers. NextGen also provides opportunities to build your professional network through connections with community leaders. We offer advising, programming, networking opportunities and exclusive access to scholarship dollars to socially engaged, community-rooted leaders with the aim to empower and equip the next generation of public service leaders. Students can get plugged into the NextGen community by filling out our Interest Form and visiting our website.  

UW Master of Applied Bioengineering: Upcoming Info Sessions and Coffee Chats

Do you have an interest in BioTech, but aren’t sure how to break into the industry? Check out the University of Washington’s Master of Applied Bioengineering (MAB) program!

This 10-month program is a fantastic opportunity for:

  • Bachelor’s degree-level engineers who want to gain direct experience developing biomedical technologies that are responsive to clinical needs while strengthening their industry skills.
  • Students from non-engineering fields (biology, chemistry and physics) who wish to obtain training in biomedical engineering applications.

The Master of Applied Bioengineering is a three quarter (Early Fall – Spring of the following year) full time professional master’s degree program that trains students to apply engineering design to address today’s clinical challenges and fulfill the market-based demands of industry and medicine for biotechnology.  Students collaborate with world-class faculty from UW Bioengineering and UW Medicine to transform biomedical research into technologies for improving patient care. Graduates have in-demand skills for work in biomedical industries and translational research.

Want to know more? We’ve got some info sessions lined up just for you. Pick the one that works best:

Coffee Chats:

Virtual Info Sessions:

Why Swing By?

  • Meet our awesome faculty and students
  • Get the scoop on our cutting-edge projects
  • Find out about cool career paths in bioengineering
  • Get all your questions answered

Don’t miss out on this chance to see how UW’s MAB program can kickstart your career in bioengineering.

Got questions? Shoot us a message at ande1220@uw.edu

Top 10 Mistakes Job Hunters Make

Hosted by Jackson School Career Services & Jackson School Student Association (JSSA)Thursday, November 7, 2024

5:30-6:30 PM Pacific

Thomson 317

Want to crush your post-grad job hunt? Discover the Top 10 mistakes job hunter make and learn what to do instead. Peg Cheng, Jackson School’s Assistant Director of Student Services, will cover everything from how to write resumes and cover letters that will get you interviews, to how to know if you should apply for a specific job, to how to use logic and intuition to your advantage, and much more. Bring your own drink, snacks will be served. OPEN TO ALL UW STUDENTS AND ALUMNI.

Drop-In Let’s Talk is now open and running!

With midterms now here, the counseling center wanted to remind you that we have drop-in consultations where students are able to have brief and free 20-minute conversations with mental health professionals outside of a formal counseling session. If the times listed do not work for you, you can schedule a 20-minute Let’s Talk session on our student portal.  Let’s Talk is a great option if you are unsure if you need counseling, unsure where to start or if you need mental health referrals off campus. 

College of Education Graduate Programs Info Sessions

We are excited to announce that the College of Education will be hosting six Virtual Graduate Programs Information Sessions in the coming months. These sessions are designed for individuals interested in our non-teaching graduate programs (M.Ed., Ed.S., Ed.D., and Ph.D.).

Students can also meet with me 1:1 to chat about our programs – email cappsh@uw.edu or schedule a prospective student advising appointment!

Interdisciplinary Approaches to Youth Mental Health and Well-Being (GEN ST 498 A / EDPSY581 / SOC W596)

The University of Washington Population Health Initiative, the College of Education and the School of Social Work are partnering to offer a one-credit General Studies course during winter quarter 2025 that will introduce students to a number of UW and community-based research and programs that are working to improve youth mental health and well-being. Undergraduates and graduate students may take this course for credit; graduate students will need to request an add code.

The course, â€śInterdisciplinary Approaches to Youth Mental Health and Well-Being (GEN ST 498 A / EDPSY581 / SOC W596),” will focus on innovative research and interventions that are successfully breaking down barriers between disciplines that have traditionally hindered positive progress from being realized as quickly as might be possible. A different faculty member or community-based practitioner will present each week to share their unique experiences with students regarding specific approaches they have taken to improve youth mental health and well-being.

Specific topics this course will address include:

  • Culturally responsive approaches to supporting youth well-being in schools
  • Community and school-based interventions for adolescents with ADHD and related difficulties in attention, motivation and executive functions
  • Impact of community-based mentorship for black youth
  • Assessment of suicide and self-injury to enhance school safety

The course will meet on Thursdays in ART 003 from 10:30 to 11:20 a.m. during Winter Quarter 2025.

Additional course details can be found in the time schedule. Each lecture is open to interested faculty, students, staff, alumni and members of the community as well as those students who are registered for the course.

Pre-Genetic Counseling Club

The Pre-Genetic Counseling Club (PGCC) is a new club at the University of Washington that aims to bring awareness to the genetic counseling profession. PGCC is currently recruiting both undergraduate and graduate students to join, as a member and/or part of leadership. There will be opportunities for graduate students to give presentations about GC to lay audiences (which is great for those who have not fulfilled that requirement yet), amongst other exciting educational and networking opportunities. Attached is the flyer for the club, but you can contact pgccuw@uw.edu if you have any questions!

Students interested in Medicine: UPREP Session #1 November 22 Application Process

Waseda Global Leadership Fellows Program

Spend a year in Japan with the 
Waseda Global Leadership Fellows Program

Application Window Now Open
Waseda GLFP is an exchange opportunity giving UW undergraduate students a chance to study at Waseda University within an international structure focused on leadership skills. This program runs autumn to early summer each year. Interested in free/low-cost housing? Studying in Japan? Gaining new leadership skills? Now in its 11th year, the GLFP invites UW students to apply for this unique program.
Priority application deadline:  November 30, 2024
For the 2025 – 2026 academic year

Academic Support Programs

CLUE Tutoring – Drop-in Tutoring

  • Peer drop-in tutoring available in Biology, Chemistry, Computer Science, Math, Physics, and Writing
  • Open from Sundays-Thursdays 7 pm- 11 pm in Mary Gates Hall Commons and virtually through the CLUE website
  • No appointment needed, students can come to Mary Gates Hall or click the virtual link on our website to put themselves in line to meet with a tutor
  • CLUE is also a great place for students to be in community to study and learn amongst one another with others taking similar courses

CLUE Tutoring – Exam Reviews

  • Our exam review peer tutors host exam reviews in Biology, Chemistry, Math, and Physics intro level courses 
  • These large virtual sessions review material for upcoming exams and provide a place for tutors to go over practice problems where students can ask questions

Academic Success Coaching

  • Scheduled one on one personalized meetings with peer coaches to build strategies for academic success
  • Common topics include time management, study strategies, goal setting, motivation, and navigating campus resources
  • Students can make an appointment on our website, see availability and bios of our coaches

Offered WIN25: EDUC401 and EDUC260

Already tutoring, or want to gain hands-on experience working with K-12 students and earn credit? 

The Community Engagement and Leadership Education (CELE) Center offers courses for UW students to earn academic credit while tutoring in K-12 schools and/or mentoring! If you are interested in educational equity and gaining direct-service experience working with K-12 students, then we encourage you to enroll in our courses. While most of our enrollment are undergraduate students, we welcome both undergraduates and interested graduate students. 

Our courses are variable credit, count towards the ELS and Leadership minors, and are graded CR/NC. 

To get started, consider registering for the below classes on MyPlan:  

EDUC 260: Equity Issues in K-12 Education (1 credit) 

When: EDUC 260 B Mondays 10:00-11:20 am

EDUC 260 A Mondays 1:00 – 2:20 pm

Modality: In-Person 

EDUC 260 is a community-engaged course designed to prepare University of Washington students for a mentoring and tutoring relationship with K-12 students at local partner schools, either in an academic tutor or a post-secondary planning capacity. The course’s purpose is to strengthen student consciousness of self, systems, and community to be applied to practice. *Pre/co-requisite course for EDUC 401. If students have completed sufficient coursework in equity-related topics, we may be able to waive 260 co-req. Please email celecenter@uw.edu with questions.  

EDUC 401 A/B: Practicum in Community Service Activity (1-6 credits) 

When: A Section BIWEEKLY on Wednesdays, 11:30 am-12:50 pm 

        B Section BIWEEKLY on Wednesdays, 4:00 pm-5:20 pm 

Modality: In-Person  

Credit variable: (1-6)

EDUC 401 A and B are CELE community-engaged courses designed to prepare University of Washington students for an academic tutoring or mentoring relationship with K-12 students at local partner K-12 schools. Students will be matched with a volunteer site, or can choose their own site, and will volunteer on a weekly basis. Tutors will build teaching and student support skills through coursework and in-person volunteering. EDUC 401 classes are meant for students to reflect on their direct community engagement experience. If you are already mentoring or tutoring and would like to earn credit for those hours, you should inquire about self-placement! Credit is earned through attendance, assignments, and the completion of required service hours (to be fulfilled through tutoring at schools and professional development sessions). 

*Pre/co-requisite: EDUC 260. If students have completed sufficient coursework in equity-related topics, we may be able to waive 260 co-req. Please email celecenter@uw.edu with questions.  

You can find out more information on our website, located here. If you have any questions about registration or curriculum, please email celecenter@uw.edu . 

Peer Honors Thesis Survey: Perception of Disabilities

My project is to evaluate how students at the UW Seattle campus view people with physical disabilities and whether or not the duration of a physical disability affects how the person with that impairment is treated by their academic peers. This survey contains two authenticated scales developed to quantitatively measure the perception of disabilities. 

Fill out the survey here: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/apdmiab

NIH sponsored 2025 University of Washington’s Summer Research Experience in Translational Neuroscience, Neurology and Neurological Surgery

Applications for the NIH sponsored Summer Research Experience in Translational Neuroscience, Neurology and Neurological Surgery program is anticipated to open November 1st, 2024!

If you have an interest in the neurosciences and desire lab experience in neurological biomedical research, please apply!

Applicants chosen to participate in the program will receive stipends of $3,200 over the duration of the 8-week program. (Note: high school or recent high school graduates must be 18 years of age or older by the first day of the program in order to participate due to facility age restrictions). Out of area students will have program sponsored housing (as long as they indicate on their application that they require program sponsored housing) but are responsible for their own meals, transportation to/from Seattle, and local transit.

Program participation includes:

  • Eight-week lab placement in one of our neuroscience research labs
  • Weekly Neurological Surgery Grand Rounds lectures
  • Weekly Neurological Surgery Resident Education Hour discussions
  • Weekly Neurology clinical conferences
  • Weekly neuroscience faculty lectures, specifically developed for the students
  • Neurological surgery OR observations (up to 2)
  • Neurology/Neurological Surgery clinical observations (up to 2)
  • Brain Anatomy Lab session
  • Student capstone presentation

To date, 197 rising freshmen and college undergraduate students aged 18 and older from 104 different schools from across the U.S. have participated in the program.

Over 35 students from our earlier classes have now been accepted into medical school and other clinical training programs. Many students just entering college have gone on to neuroscience, pre-med studies, medical school or PhD neuroscience programs..

The application period will close on Wednesday, January 1st, 2025. Application is free.

Please email nsssp@uw.edu with any questions you may have about the application process.

We look forward to reviewing your application!

Free Red Cross CPR/AED, First Aid & Overdose Response Training for UW Students

Get Certified: Free Red Cross CPR/AED, First Aid & Overdose Response Training for UW Students

University of Washington Emergency Medical Services (UWEMS) is offering American Red Cross Adult CPR/AED, First Aid and Naloxone Use training sessions throughout this fall quarter, available for free to any UW-affiliated student, staff, or faculty. Courses are taught by our team of American Red Cross Instructors and Emergency Medical Technicians.

During the sessions, you’ll learn to recognize and respond to common cardiac, respiratory, drug-related, and first-aid emergencies. Upon successful completion, you’ll receive certification and a complimentary naloxone kit to take home!

To sign up, visit our website and complete a registration form on the training calendar. If you have any further questions, please email us at uwems@uw.edu or join our Discord. We look forward to seeing you!

Community Advisory Committee for Law Enforcement Oversight

Do you want to help create a more fair and just policing and public safety system?

The King County Office of Law Enforcement Oversight (OLEO) represents the interests of the public in its efforts to hold the King County Sheriff’s Office accountable for providing fair and just police services. Learn more about OLEO: www.kingcounty.gov/OLEO.

· OLEO is looking for community members who want to serve as advocates for the interests of the diverse communities across King County.

If you are interested in equity, social justice, community organizing, or working collaboratively to improve how the King County Sheriff’s Office operates, then consider joining the Community Advisory Committee for Law Enforcement Oversight (CACLEO).

Examples of what CACLEO members do:

· Learn about how people experience policing by the Sheriff’s Office and advise on priorities for change.

· Work collaboratively with stakeholders to recommend specific ways to improve Sheriff’s Office practices, policies, service, and operations to better address community needs.

· Serve as resources in the community and help ensure community feedback informs OLEO’s work, the Sheriff, and King County Council and.

· Build awareness about ways to address or file complaints of police misconduct.

· Advise on issues of equity and social justice within police practices and support community-led work to fuel positive change in the public safety system.

Who can serve on CACLEO? CACLEO members must live in and reflect the diversity of communities served by the King County Sheriff’s Office.

Current openings and soon to be vacant positions on CACLEO include multiple positions for people living in: · Unincorporated areas of King County, visit this link to find out if you live in an unincorporated areas: https://kingcounty.gov/depts/local-services.aspx · Sheriff’s Office contract service jurisdictions: Carnation, Sammamish, Skykomish, Woodinville, Beaux Arts Village, Covington, Maple Valley, Muckleshoot Tribe, Newcastle, Burien, SeaTac, Kenmore, Shoreline

Application process: Applications are being accepted now, email OLEO@kingcounty.gov to find out more.

What qualifications do you need to serve on CACLEO?

OLEO welcomes people of all backgrounds, our staff will provide orientation, training, and support to ensure those interested can learn how to have an impact and feel prepared to serve.

CACLEO is looking for people who:

· Are committed to King County’s Equity and Social Justice principles.

· Are interested in working collaboratively with other community members, policymakers, elected officials, and members of law enforcement on ways to improve police services.

· Have relevant lived, volunteer, or professional experience.

o If you have experience related to police or the justice system, community organizing or advocacy, human services, community leadership, legal services, public policy, community engagement, systemic change, trauma-informed or restorative practices, or other relevant areas, we want to hear from you.

What’s the commitment?

CACLEO members are appointed to a three-year term and may seek to one additional reappointment. Members spend approximately six to eight hours per month on CACLEO work, including a two-hour monthly meeting (hybrid options available).

Udall Scholarship

The Udall Scholarship is a $7,000 scholarship for sophomores and juniors who are committed to making a difference in either the environment or Native American/Alaska Native Tribal Policy or Native Healthcare. US citizenship or permanent residency required. Four nominations are available for students committed to environmental careers and four for students interested in Tribal Policy/Native Healthcare.

Udall UW Nomination required, apply here: https://new.expo.uw.edu/expo/apply/746

UW deadline: January 15, 2025

LABOR 480 – Applied Research for the Labor Movement

UW Seattle Master of Science in Laboratory Medicine Virtual Info Sessions

The Bonderman Travel Fellowship

Application opens: November 15, 2024 

Closes: January 16, 2025 

Join us for an information session and/or Q&A session. 

Where would you go if you had eight months to travel solo? Which two continents and six countries would you visit? What experiences would you seek out? How would you be transformed?

Each year a handful of lucky University of Washington students get to make those decisions as they embark on the adventure of a lifetime with the support of a Bonderman Fellowship. The 2025 application is open and you may be eligible to apply for this $26,000 fellowship that supports independent exploration and travel abroad.

Bonderman Fellows undertake international travel on their own for eight months, to six or more countries in two or more major regions of the world. Through solo travel fellows focus on exploration and discovery, learning about the world and themselves in it.  Each Fellowship carries a $26,000 award to be used only for extended solo international travel. Fellows may not conduct research, pursue an academic project, or participate in a formal program or organization.

Applications are due by 5:00 pm PT on January 16, 2025. In person and online information session information can be seen here.

The Bonderman Fellowship offers University of Washington graduate, professional, and graduating senior undergraduate students an opportunity to engage in independent exploration and international travel. Bonderman Fellowships give students the chance to explore, be open to the unexpected, and come to know the world in new ways. Open to all fields of study. Students with limited/no international experience and those from low-income backgrounds are particularly encouraged to apply.

Quick facts: 

  • 8 months of consecutive travel 
  • 6 countries minimum, 9 maximum 
  • 2 world regions minimum, 3 maximum 
  • $26,000 award 
  • Travel plans should be personal; formal study, research, or participation in a program is not allowed 

Learn more about the Bonderman fellowship and eligibility requirements here.

Women’s Entrepreneurship Day Brunch & WE Lead Cohort + Mentoring Program applications

WE Lead also has two open applications! One is for our annual Cohort program, which has a deadline coming up on 11/20. The other is for WE Lead’s 1:1 Mentoring Program, which will take place in Winter 2025 – application due 12/2. More info and relevant links below.

  • APPLICATION OPEN – WE Lead’s 1:1 Mentoring Program (Deadline: 12/2, 12pm) Apply here!
    WE Lead is offering the opportunity to be paired with a mentor for a 12-week, 1:1 mentoring program this Winter Quarter. Open to all majors, this program offers you the opportunity to gain personalized guidance and career insights from women with a breadth and depth of experience across multiple industry backgrounds.
    • 11/25: Info Session: WE Lead’s 1:1 Mentoring Program Application 10-11am (Virtual)
    • 12/2: Application DEADLINE: WE Lead’s 1:1 Mentoring Program, 12pm
      Submit your application here       for the opportunity to be paired with a mentor over a 12-week program, including supportive scaffolding to prepare you for a fruitful connection with your mentor. Applicants will share their top connections, desired industry experience, and be matched with a mentor. The program takes place from 1/5/25 – 3/28/25.
  • 11/27: WE Lead Wednesday 12-1:30pm (Founders Hall Innovation Suite – 490, tea & snacks provided)
    Ideal for students looking to get involved with WE Lead, meet others our campus community and connect with others interested in entrepreneurship. This casual lunchtime event is hosted by the WE Lead Student Board each month to hold space for informal community gathering for creatives, innovators, and the entre-curious. Bring your lunch and join us!

UW Drinking Water Infrastructure Survey

A research team led by Dr. Katya Cherukumilli in UW Human Centered Design and Engineering (HCDE) is conducting a short online survey to learn about campus users’ perceptions, experiences, and behaviors related to drinking water infrastructure in UW buildings. We’d appreciate it if you could spend < 10 minutes to take this UW drinking water survey. The findings from this research study will be shared publicly, and will contribute to efforts to improve access to high quality drinking water sources on the UW campus.