Funding for Innovative Ideas!

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Funding for Innovative Ideas!

Do you have an idea that you think has commercial potential? Do you dream of starting a company sometime in the future? If your answers are yes, then the National Science Foundation I-Corps program may be right for you!

The NSF ICorps Site Program recruits exploratory business ventures started by faculty, staff, students and alumni, providing teams the infrastructure needed to accelerate business exploration and creation. The program focuses on agile innovation tied to customer discovery while providing networking opportunities, resources, and financial support to help move projects forward.

Each I-Corps grant will provide $2,500 to eligible teams as they gain first-hand feedback from potential customers and clients and prepare for the UW’s Buerk Center for Entrepreneurship’s annual Business Plan Competition, the Alaska Airlines Environmental Innovation Challenge, and the Hollomon Health Innovation Challenge.

Applications will be accepted until 2/16. Eligibility requirements and applications can be found at: http://comotion.uw.edu/start-up/icorps.

If you have questions about the program/application, please contact Erin Olnon at erin82@uw.edu.

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English 204A Topic: “The Zombie Apocalypse”

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English 204A (Popular Fiction and Media)

Topic:  “The Zombie Apocalypse” 

Contemporary culture teems with the animated dead.  While vampires have proliferated in fiction, film, comics and television for well over a century now, zombies are more recent arrivals; the emergence of zombie narrative as a new, cross-media genre of popular culture is usually dated to George Romero’s iconic 1978 film, Dawn of the Dead.  If vampires are a late-19th-century phenomenon (Bram Stoker published Dracula in 1897), zombies are late-20th-century and early-21st-century creatures. If vampires are ancient revenants (figures from earlier ages, called forth from the crypt), zombies are us – or, as Rick Grimes puts in  Robert Kirkman’s comic, “We are the walking dead.”

This course will consider what it is that drives the attraction to the figure of the zombie, and what ideas about government, society, belonging, ecology, and futurity zombie narratives explore.   Dracula’s arrival in Victorian London spoke to the effects of urbanization, industrialization, and colonialism: what might zombies have to tell us about de-industrialization, globalization, austerity, and the information age? While our focus will be on print fiction, we will also consider a number of films, as well as a television series.

Likely print materials include Richard Matheson, I Am Legend, Robert Kirkman, The Walking Dead Omnibus (volume 1), Colson Whitehead, Zone One, Tananarive Due and Steven Barnes, Devil’s Wake, and short fiction by Mira Grant.  We will sample broadly from visual media, as well, probably including film adaptations of I Am Legend (The Last Man on Earth; Omega Man), Romero’s Dawn, as well as World War Z, Zombieland, Shaun of the Dead, and episodes of iZombie.  Interested students are welcome to contact me closer to the start of the term for an updated list of course materials.  Written work for the course will likely include two essays, a midterm, and a final exam.

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Politics of Blackness and Indigeneity in Multicultural Peru – Study Abroad!

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This interdisciplinary program examines diversity in a non-US setting by asking how identity and history are constructed, negotiated, and renegotiated in Peru through artistic production and expressive culture, and how art engages the politics of historical memory and imaginations of Blackness and Indigeneity. Students will study the longer history of Peru while observing, working alongside, and learning from performing artists, community leaders, and activists who have played crucial roles in preserving Afro-Peruvian and Indigenous artistic and performative traditions. By bringing the arts together with scholarship in the humanities and social sciences, we will situate the work of artists in a broader context and explore how artistic production constitutes a way of thinking historically about identity, diversity, and power. How, for example, do dance, music, and related forms of artistic production such as costume-making create spaces, both figurative and real, for wrestling with the past to confront and challenge the injustices of the present? How do they enable individuals and collectives to imagine alternative political and social configurations and articulate forms of anti-racism? How do they enable people to make meaning of the past and engage the urgency of the present? Finally, what can the study of artistic production and cultural expression among such groups teach us about the complexities of race, equity, and diversity in various contexts in Peru and beyond?

Courses:

  • CHID 472: History, Performance, and the Politics of Blackness and Indigeneity in Multicultural Peru (5 credits)
  • HSTLAC 481: History of Peru and the Andean Region (5 credits)
  • CHID 499: Independent Project (2 credits)

Fulfills Requirements:

CHID Cultural and Historical Engagement

CHID Power & Difference

VLPA Credit

Total Program Fees:

$5,350

*Note that the fees stated above do not include some additional costs, including, but not limited to: airfare, Study Abroad Insurance ($2/day), and personal spending money. Remember that these costs will differ by program. Be sure to read our Fees, Financing, and Withdrawal information for details about the fee structure and payment schedule.

Apply and View More Details at UW Study Abroad Website

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