November 24th, 2009
Posted by Maggie
For all you visual communication enthusiasts, check out this cool new book. The author reads tonight in Pioneer Square.
Seattle’s Katharine “Kitty” Harmon makes a most welcome return visit to Elliott Bay tonight with a stunning new book of maps of territories both strange and familiar—produced by artists working in paint, salt, old magazines, gloves, found items, and on the artists’ own bodies.
The Map as Art: Contemporary Artists Explore Cartography (Princeton Architectural Press) includes photographs of maps by 350 artists, including Ed Rushka, Julian Schnabel, Maya Lin, Guillermo Kuitca, and Gale Jamieson, and features essays on some of the artists by art historian Gayle Clemans. Kitty Harmon, the author of over a dozen books, was her more recently with You Are Here: Personal Geographies and Other Maps of the Imagination.
Tue, 11/24/2009 – 7:00pm
Location:
The Elliott Bay Book Company
101 S. Main St.
Seattle, Washington 98104
Tags: visual communication
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November 24th, 2009
Posted by Maggie
Don’t underestimate your ability to apply HCDE (such as Information Design) to opportunities in non-profits!
The EMP Pop Conference’s theme is “Music and Technology.”
The Simpson Center for the Humanities and American Music Partnership of Seattle are pleased to announce support for UW graduate student internships at AMPS partner organizations for the Fall 2009 and Winter 2010 quarters. AMPS supports collaboration among Experience Music Project, KEXP Radio, and the University of Washington. It is funded by a generous grant from the Paul G. Allen Family Foundation and administered by the Simpson Center for the Humanities.
Graduate students selected for and committed to these internships will receive quarterly stipends, funded through the American Music Partnership of Seattle. Internships and fellowships requiring an average of ten hours per week are stipended at $1,000 (total funding) per ten-week quarter; internships requiring fewer hours or fewer weeks will receive a proportionate, prorated stipend amount.
Overview:
Community Music Fellowship
This position replaces the Exp: The Band fellowship and is suited to a grad student in Music Education. The fellow will be instrumental in helping the education department assess the needs of and design a proposal for a new community music program at EMP for under-served teens.
Pop Conference Internships (2 positions)
The interns will learn the processes and resources involved in hosting a major academic/public conference and multi-day, largescale museum event. S/he will meet and work with staff across the museum as well as members of the music community in Seattle and nationwide. This will be an excellent opportunity for students interested in event planning and public program development to acquire experience and get an inside view of producing a nationally recognized event.
Exhibits Development and Design Internship
This internship is focused on the development of a specific exhibit, opening in June 2010. The intern will work with the exhibit curator to conduct research, write content, and secure artifacts for the exhibit. S/he will work with the exhibits manager to contribute to exhibit and graphic design, plan the installation, and, if interested, work on exhibit fabrication and installation.
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Tags: emp, Internships, music
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November 23rd, 2009
Posted by Maggie
Research Assistantship for Winter Quarter 2010
https://uwhires.admin.washington.edu/eng/candidates/default.cfm?szCategory=jobprofile&szOrderID=59756&szCandidateID=0&szSearchWords=&szReturnToSearch=1
The Graduate School solicits applications for a part-time, 50% FTE one quarter Research Assistantship (RA) appointment (with possibility of re-appointment for additional quarters) to help analyze information and data related to UW graduate education.
Responsibilities will include:
1. Research, analyze and report on graduate education data. This will require using Graduate School databases, the UW Enterprise Data Warehouse, and other institutional, web and library sources. This will also require collaboration with Graduate School staff.
2. Create reports that communicate data and analysis to the UW and larger communities.
3. Provide data analysis and information for use with internal and external constituencies via updates, published reports, and the Graduate School website.
4. Create short surveys to obtain information to supplement existing Graduate School data (e.g., short surveys of staff working in graduate education, graduate students, faculty, etc.)
5. Build local reporting systems to provide access to information that will support internal decision-making and strategic planning and communications.
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November 23rd, 2009
Posted by Maggie
Google Policy Fellowship Program—to support students and organizations working on policy issues fundamental to the future of the Internet and its users.
Program Overview
Fellows will have the opportunity to work at public interest organizations at the forefront of debates on broadband and access policy, content regulation, copyright and trademark reform, consumer privacy, open government, and more. Participating organizations are based in either Washington, DC, San Francisco, CA , Ottawa or Toronto, Canada.
Fellows will be assigned a lead mentor at their host organizations, but will have the opportunity to work with several senior staff members over the course of the summer. Fellows will be expected to make substantive contributions to the work of their organization, including conducting policy research and analysis; drafting reports and analyses; attending government and industry meetings and conferences; and participating in other advocacy activities.
Fellows will receive a stipend of $7,000 for 10 weeks during the summer of 2010 (June-August). Exact dates of the fellowship will be worked out by the fellow and host organization. Applications are due by midnight on Monday, December 28, 2009. Students who are accepted into the program will be notified by Friday, February 12th, 2010. To learn about our application process, click here.
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November 23rd, 2009
Posted by Maggie
I am looking for interested faculty and graduate students who want to write book reviews for The Information Society, a journal distributed by Francis & Taylor (Routledge). Information about the journal, reviews, and a hyperlinked list of available titles are at:
Book Review Editor, The Information Society
c/o Westfield State College
Tags: journal
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November 23rd, 2009
Posted by Maggie
JBTCCall for Manuscripts
Call for manuscripts:
Special Issue of Journal of Business and Technical Communication: Revisiting the IText Revolution
A decade ago, the IText Manifesto was published in the Journal of Business and Technical Communication,* calling attention to the impact of information technologies with texts at their core. These ITexts, the authors claimed, represented, “new page in the story of the coevolution of humanity, culture, and technology,” promising to change both the nature of texts and their role in society. In special issue to be published in July 2010, JBTC invites researchers and scholars to revisit that promise.
In particular, we seek original research and scholarship that examines:
• New genres of texts that have emerged in the last decade in the context of new digital technologies;
• Newly emerging criteria for what makes texts effective, usable, or engaging in digital contexts;
• The changing interplay of the visual and verbal in digital texts;
• Evolving patterns or strategies for the use of ITexts in the context of work, leisure, or home;
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Tags: cfp, journanls, technical communication
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November 19th, 2009
Posted by Maggie
Image from blogtactic.com
Building Your Network & Conducting Informational Interviews
When: Thursday, December 3, 2009, 4:30 – 5:30 PM
Where: Smith 304
Summary:
Make those holiday parties work for you! Dozens of studies suggest that the most effective way to find employment opportunities is networking. Serious job-seekers take initiative to make themselves known by others who might have job leads, contacts, or advice. A common problem with networking is that many people are afraid of it or unsure how to go about it. In this workshop, we’ll show you how to build your network of professional contacts in a step by step manner using family, alumni, professional associations, informational interviews, and more. No registration required.
Event Contact Name: Briana Keller
Event Contact Email: kellerb@uw.edu
Tags: Networking
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November 19th, 2009
Posted by Maggie
The Career Center Workshops & Events for November 23 – November 25
NOTE: Unless indicated, no need to register or sign up for the following workshops. Just come!
**All The Career Center workshops are held in Room 134 Mary Gates Hall unless otherwise noted **
Monday, November 23, 3:30 – 4:30, How to Find a Job
Tuesday, November 24, 1:30 – 2:30, Resumes and Cover Letters
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November 19th, 2009
Posted by Gian
The Pride Foundation, a local LGBT non-profit is looking for a student(s) to help them to do a usability study for their new, online Scholarship Application.
They would like to have a small group meet in Spring quarter and develop methods that will help determine if the online scholarship application is user friendly for applicants and volunteers alike and perceptions of the new system compared to a paper-based method.
If you are interested, you should contact Anthony Papini at anthony@pridefoundation.org. There is $500 attached to this project.
Additionally, The Pride Foundation gives out scholarship to LGBT and allied students, so if you are interested in applying for a scholarship, visit http://pridefoundationscholar.org/.
Anthony Papini
Director of Scholarship Programs
Pride Foundation
1122 East Pike Street, PMB 1001
Seattle, WA 98122
(P) 206-323-3318 or 1-800-735-7287 x110
(F) 206-323-1017
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