Monthly Archive for September, 2009

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PSSIGCHI – Songsmith Tonight!

Published on September 24, 2009 in Current Students, Events, Masters, PhD and Undergrads. 0 Comments

Join us for the first PS SIGCHI meeting of the fall session… this one should be FUN!

Dan Morris will show us Songsmith, a very cool piece of software to add chords to the tunes you generate in the studio or shower. It’s fun and creates a radical redefinition of the user experience in songwriting… opening the door to richer experiences for people who love music without formal training. As always, refreshments will be provided. Feel free to forward the invite to your UX/CX (or other) friends who hum at their desks or sing in their car, or just like to see cool new ideas that work. Continue reading ‘PSSIGCHI – Songsmith Tonight!’

GPSS employement opportunities- Publications Assistant

Published on September 24, 2009 in Community, Masters and PhD. 0 Comments Tags: .

logo_headerGPSS Open Positions

Note: These jobs are not RA/TA/GA positions with a tuition waiver. They are however incredible opportunities to do good work and get rare experience in policy.

The UW Graduate and Professional Student Senate currently has several open positions for UW students. For more information on each of the positions follow the links below.

Publications Assistant:
http://www.meme-hazard.org/gpss-staging/content/employment-publications-assistant

Fellowship to Work and Study in Germany

Published on September 24, 2009 in International. 0 Comments Tags: .

The Congress-Bundestag Youth Exchange for Young Professionals (CBYX) is currently accepting applications for the 2010-2011 program. CBYX is a fellowship for college-age students and recent graduates who want to live, study, and intern in Germany for one year. CBYX is funded by the US and German governments for participants in all career fields throughout the US, and does not require any prior German language knowledge. Applicants in business, engineering, scientific, vocational, technical, and agricultural fields are especially encouraged to apply. Participants spend a year studying and working in their fields while completely immersed in the German language and culture.

The CBYX for Young Professionals fellowship funds the following expenses for 75 participants annually:
* two months of intensive German language training (prior German language knowledge is not required, but preferred)
* semester of study in the participant’s career field at a German college or university
* five-month internship in the participant’s career field with a German company
* accommodations living with German hosts, in shared apartments, and in student dorms
* transatlantic airfare and monthly food stipends
* health/accident insurance
* various program seminars in the United States and Germany
Continue reading ‘Fellowship to Work and Study in Germany’

Your help is needed preparing flu kits for UW

Published on September 24, 2009 in Community. 0 Comments Tags: .

Before the academic year begins next week, the University of Washington is preparing to distribute over 10,000 free influenza (flu) kits to UW students living on or near campus. These kits contain essential aids for prevention, immediate care and relief from flu symptoms. We are seeking volunteers to assist in assembling these kits. Join us in helping us get these kits packed and delivered to students so we can keep our community healthy!

When: Monday, September 28 and Tuesday, September 29

Where: North Husky Den (on the ground floor of the HUB)

Shifts on Monday, September 28, 2009
Group A – 10 am – noon
Group B – noon – 2 pm
Group C – 2 pm- 4 pm
Group D – 4pm – 6pm

Shifts on Tuesday, September 29, 2009
Group E – 10 am – noon
Group F – noon – 2pm

If you would like to volunteer, please contact Siri at sirim@uw.edu before 3 pm on Friday, September 24th. She will email you confirmation of your shift duty time and where to report for your shift. If you can volunteer for more than one shift – that would be great!

This is a huge effort but critical to stopping the spread of flu on our campus. We hope you can help!

Introduction to Technology Commercialization

Published on September 22, 2009 in Current Students and Undergrads. 0 Comments

ENGR 498 SECTION B 4 SPECIAL TOPICS
T TH 0430-0620P BNS 117
(offered with BioE 504)
Lead Instructor: Buddy D. Ratner

An introductory course in the theory and practice of taking ideas and research from the academic environment to product. Continue reading ‘Introduction to Technology Commercialization’

Student Webmaster in Admissions

Published on September 17, 2009 in Employment and Work-study. 0 Comments

Student Webmaster – Office of Admissions

The Office of Admissions (Undergraduate) is seeking one or two webmasters to join the webteam. The position entails working closely with the Communications Manager and other student webmasters in creating and maintaining an exciting and user-friendly website for prospective undergraduates. This is a great opportunity for students to gain “real-world” experience working with the Web and firsthand knowledge of what it takes to maintain a large and busy website ( ~400 pages; ~500,000-1M page views per month). Continue reading ‘Student Webmaster in Admissions’

UW Vision+Cognition Group is looking for VIDEO GAME PLAYERS!

Published on September 16, 2009 in Alumni and Current Students. 0 Comments Tags: , .

The UW Vision+Cognition Group is looking for video game players to participate in a research study on visual attention.

The UW Vision+Cognition Group is starting a new project on the effects of video games on visual attention. The study is 3 hours over 3 sessions on separate days. This project is still in piloting, so to work out the kinks we’re looking for enthusiastic participants who fit the following criteria:

1) “Hardcore” video game players who play video games (i.e = first-person shooters, RTS games) regularly over the past 6 months or more (please state your experience)

2) Non-video game players who have not played video games in the past 6 months

Participants are compensated $10/hour for their participation, for a total of $30 over the 3 sessions. Please reply if you are interested in participating in this study and tell your friends they are eligible as well. Participants will be doing tasks on a regular computer such as tracking an object around the screen, and will have their “attentional space” mapped to determine the range of their visual attention.

Please contact Jeffrey Lin at:

jytlin@u.washington.edu

If you are interested in this research opportunity.

New U District neighboorhood blog

Published on September 16, 2009 in Community. 0 Comments Tags: , .

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A reminder that anyone be a blogger!

http://udistrict.komonews.com/

The new KOMO sponsored U District blog is seeking contributors. The UW homepage linked directly to the blog’s story on Cunningham Hall’s move.

Think No One Is Hiring? Think UW

Published on September 16, 2009 in Career Resources and Employment. 0 Comments Tags: .

Be a part of President Obama’s economic stimulus plan by applying for ARRA grant-funded positions that are becoming available at the UW. As of August 2009, the UW has received almost $42 million in ARRA funding. The bulk of the funding is expected to be received by the end of September. While many of the awards continue to be for science and engineering projects, a few fund arts and the humanities.

Curious about how your skill set fits with these jobs? Then visit with the ARRA Employment Team at our next virtual career fair on:

Wednesday, September 16, 2009
6:00 – 7:00 p.m.
Register now
http://www.washington.edu/admin/hr/jobs/arra/

In the meantime, check out a series of virtual career fairs that the ARRA Employment Team hosted for UW’s graduating seniors, graduate students, and recent grads. The transcripts may answer questions you have about the broad range of research-related positions expected from the ARRA funding. The web chats have been archived on our archive page.

Conference for Software User Assistance on UW campus, March 21-24

Published on September 16, 2009 in Current Students and Events. 0 Comments Tags: , .
Software User Assistance conference

Software User Assistance conference

Opportunities for involvement in the 2010 Conference for Software User Assistance:

    Submit a presentation or paper
    Submit a poster
    Volunteer

Contact: Joe Welinske, WritersUA
The Conference for Software User Assistance
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