Huskies for Nuerodiversity is recruiting for PAID AND NON-PAID opportunities to help promote visibility for the neurodivergent community. These include UI/UX designers, audio/visual producers, captioners, panel planners, writers, and graphic designers. There is something for everyone!

 

Detailed Opportunity Descriptions: https://docs.google.com/document/u/0/d/1YvUU5ffmq6hHyarEv8jRtlKn-UAlOTfs8I4ZvNPKAo4/

 

Do you…

• Care deeply about promoting and/or learning more about disability justice?
• Have interest in and/or experience with audio/video production, web design, graphic design, communications, captioning, and/or event planning?
• Want to engage in paid or volunteer opportunities to promote diversity, equity and inclusion?
• Want the chance to build your portfolio/resume with hands-on experience in content development?

 

JOIN THE HUSKIES FOR NEURODIVERSITY TEAM!

Winner of the 2021-2022 Husky Seed Fund Award, Huskies for Neurodiversity is a student-led initiative that promotes visibility and acceptance of neurodiversity at UW campus and beyond. Spearheaded by a team with two neurodivergent students, our goal is to destigmatize and educate about neurodiversity and disability accommodations on campus to students and faculty, as well as provide a platform for neurodivergent individuals to share their stories and experiences in their own voice.

We hope to accomplish this in three big ways:

Website: Our website will feature the lived experiences of neurodivergent people as told from their own perspective, as well as provide credible articles and resources about a vast array of topics relevant to neurodiversity.

Research: Our research subcommittee will research topics on neurodiversity and write and publish articles and other multimedia pieces related to neurodiversity to our website.

Panel: Our panel will feature neurodivergent students and professionals answering questions about their experiences with neurodiversity throughout their life, and how they have transitioned to adulthood. It will feature small group discussions and engaging activities to teach the community about the social model of disability and accessibility.

Neurodivergent students are highly encouraged to apply. Detailed job descriptions and application forms are available at the following links:

General Application Form: https://forms.gle/xCeMAg6K5cdoNfVdA

Detailed Opportunity Descriptions: https://docs.google.com/document/u/0/d/1YvUU5ffmq6hHyarEv8jRtlKn-UAlOTfs8I4ZvNPKAo4/

PRIORITY DEADLINE is 09/05/21 at 11:59PM. Form will remain open until all positions are filled.

Direct any questions to Tiara (she/they) at tiarast@uw.edu.

PHARM 579 The COVID-19 Pandemic: An Update on Science, Vaccines and Public Health (1 credit)

SLN: 20026

Meetings: Tuesdays from 1:30-2:20 pm (mix of hybrid and virtual class sessions)

Instructors: Sean Sullivan and Doug Black, School of Pharmacy, with a variety of guest speakers

Syllabus: Pharm 579 Au 2021

Issue No. 81                                                                        August 17, 2021

Highlighted News and Announcements

NIH Transition to Login.gov
The NIH, as part of its strategy to move to two-factor authentication to make eRA more secure, is requiring users to transfer to Login.gov or use an InCommon Federated account login. Scientific account users are encouraged to make this transition now. Administrative users will make this transition in early 2022. For more information, including instructions for how to make the transition, click here and here.

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NUTR 511 Survey of Advanced Nutrition (2)

Tuesdays from 830-1020 in GNOM S060

Taught by Cristen Harris, Associate Teaching Professor and Core Faculty in the Nutritional Sciences Program

 

Dr. Harris is a dynamic instructor who uses a flipped classroom approach to teaching that encourages participation from each student and promotes collaborative learning.

 

Using a topic each week to offer an advanced introduction to nutritional sciences, the course ponders deep questions, such “What is an ‘optimal’ diet?” and “How do we address food safety?” They take a short journey through the life course with maternal and child nutrition; briefly explore the gut microbiome and associated food allergies, insensitivities, and intolerances; and critically analyze nutrition-related recommendations for “obesity,” cardiovascular disease, heart failure, type 2 diabetes, chronic kidney disease, cancers, and neurological disorders such as Alzheimer’s disease.

 

SafeCampus is hiring! We’re looking for 2 fantastic graduate students to help support our program this school year. SafeCampus provides consultation with individuals and departments who are concerned about gender-based violence, threats, cybersafety issues, or suicide. We work to get folks connected to the best resources to meet their needs.

This is a unique opportunity especially for anyone interested in violence prevention/threat assessment work in higher education. If interested, please review the job description!

The Healer’s Art

UCONJ 565 Autumn 2021

 

*Do you sometimes feel too isolated during your health sciences education?

*Do you find it difficult at times to remember the reasons you chose to pursue a career in the health sciences?

*Have you found that it seems necessary to leave a good part of yourself outside the walls of health sciences?

*Are you determined to avoid the pitfalls and behaviors of “pessimistic clinicians”?

*How does one stay open to intrigue and awe within healthcare?

If these questions stir your interest, and you are a graduate/professional UW Health Sciences student, please join us for five Tuesday evenings from 6:30-8:30 PM on Sept 28, Oct 5, 12, 19, and 26. We will meet virtually over Zoom.  We use a large group and small group format.  This course is intended for students from all health professional training programs at UW.

The Healer’s Art elective (as developed at the UCSF School of Medicine by Rachel Remen, MD) is now offered in over 60 health professional (medical, nursing, physician assistant, veterinary, pharmacy, etc) schools in the U.S. and more than a half a dozen health sciences schools internationally.  For more perspective on Dr Remen’s work, please take a look at her 1996 book of essays: Kitchen Table Wisdom: Stories that Heal and the Healer’s Art.

website: http://www.ishiprograms.org/programs/medical-educators-students/

 

Each week, students will be asked to engage in self-reflective work and to read Kitchen Table Wisdom. At the end of the course, students will be asked to submit a one-age reflection. There are no exams or graded assignments.

Finding meaning in one’s work is the antecedent to commitment and service.  The course will help you to gain skills that facilitate the discovery of meaning in your work over the course of a career in health care.

To obtain your add code for registration please email Rachel Lazzar at rlazzar@uw.edu

The Team-based Substance Use Disorder Training Program (Screening, Assessment, and Treatment) program is a free, online, interprofessional training course that will take place over the three quarters of the 2021-22 academic year, and is geared toward UW Health Sciences students in all schools. Faculty facilitators, providers, and community members will bring their professional and personal perspectives to the series to help participants learn skills and knowledge related to healthcare team-oriented, non-stigmatizing approaches to screening, assessment, and treatment of substance use disorders.

The Team-Based SUD Training Program is designed for future health professionals from across professions who:

• have an interest in learning more about SUD screening, assessment and treatment
• describe themselves as beginner or intermediate in their exposure/practice with people who have SUD
• want to learn more about the experiences of people living with SUD
• want to learn more about collaborative and team-based approaches to caring for patients with SUD

We ask that students commit to participating in each session (six online sessions including orientation), so all involved can benefit from your contributions. We anticipate that a roughly 5-hour commitment per quarter will be necessary to complete preparatory activities and Zoom sessions.

Tentative Program Session Dates (all on Zoom):

• 10/19/21
• 11/16/21
• 1/18/22
• 2/15/22
• 4/19/22
• 5/17/22

 

To register, please visit our sign-up HERE by 5:00 PM, Friday September 24.

(https://catalyst.uw.edu/webq/survey/rlazzar/411862)

The first lecture in the series will be held :

Date/Time:  Wednesday, September 8 from 12:00-1:00 PM PST.

Title: “The Pathologizing of……” This first event will set the tone for the remainder of the series.

Speaker:  Edwin Lindo, JD.

Please register at:  https://catalyst.uw.edu/webq/survey/ncorona/411770

The Center for Health Sciences Interprofessional Education, Research and Practice is recruiting for a 50% FTE Interprofessional Service Learning Manager.  They are looking for someone with strong organizational and leadership skills, and a passion about service learning and community engagement related to health.

https://uwhires.admin.washington.edu/eng/candidates/default.cfm?szCategory=jobprofile&szOrderID=194406&szCandidateID=0&szSearchWords=&szReturnToSearch=1

Join us: World Suicide Prevention Day Conference

 

Forefront Suicide Prevention invites you to attend COVID to Connectedness, a virtual conference to be held Friday., Sept. 10. Register here.   This conference is designed for Washington’s behavioral health professionals, health care providers, public health professionals, educators, peer supporters, and others with an interest in suicide prevention.   Five CEUs are offered.** The event is free, with an hourlong lunch break. Please visit our conference webpage for full details.   Speakers include the noted researcher Thomas Joiner, Ph.D. of Florida State University, David Klonsky, Ph.D. of University of British Columbia, and other experts in supporting individuals who live with suicidal thoughts and behaviors.   **This workshop has been approved for 5 CEUs by the Washington Chapter, National Association of Social Workers (NASW), for Licensed Social Workers, Licensed Marriage & Family Therapists and Licensed Mental Health Counselors. Forefront’s provider number is 1975-473.

Register Here

The School of Pharmacy’s Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Council (DEIC) is hiring a DEI Coordinator-Graduate Staff Assistant for the coming academic year! This position will support the School of Pharmacy’s DEIC and will report to the DEIC Co-Chairs. The position is open to graduate students from any school/department who will be enrolled full time (10+ credits) throughout the 2021-2022 academic year. The position provides a tuition waiver, GAIP insurance, plus standard salary (the salary is commensurate with student standing). Application deadline: August 31, 2021

 

The duties and responsibilities include, but are not limited to, the following:

 

• Create and disseminate timely DEIC emails to School of Pharmacy faculty, staff, and students that contain resources and events
• Assist and support the Communications & Community workgroup with the DEIC website
• Schedule meetings for DEIC and workgroups, as needed
• Stay current with and provide updates/news on recent developments in DEI in higher education and pharmacy
• Provide the DEIC with conference and events information that may be of interest members
• Provide staffing support at student recruiting conferences as needed
• Collaborate with other interdisciplinary programs, health sciences schools, and other schools/colleges of pharmacy on DEI
• Complete at least one project of the student’s interest in collaboration with one of the workgroups
• Other projects and duties as assigned

 

DATES OF EMPLOYMENT: approx. September 29, 2021 to June 15, 2022

 

HOURS: During autumn, winter, and spring quarters, this position will be approximately 20 hours per week, with 220 hours expected each quarter. The position will be located in the Health Sciences Building with the work being done during regular business hours.

 

SALARY: The position provides tuition (a waiver of the operating fee, technology fee, and building fee), a U-PASS, and GAIP insurance plus standard salary. The salary is commensurate with student standing.

 

CREDIT LOAD: Must be formally enrolled as a UW graduate student for at least 10 credits each quarter for fall, winter, and spring quarters.

 

APPLICATION PROCESS, DEADLINE, NOTIFICATION, ACCEPTANCE: Applicants are asked to supply a resume and cover letter. All materials should be submitted to Kelly Campbell, Staff Co-Chair, School of Pharmacy DEIC (kellyjc@uw.edu) no later than August 31, 2021. This position will be hired within 3 weeks of the closing date and the finalist must submit an acceptance of position no later than one week after the offer.

 

REQUIREMENTS:

• Must be formally enrolled as a UW graduate student for at least 10 credits each quarter for autumn, winter, and spring quarters
• Understanding of and commitment to social justice, equity, and anti-racism

 

DESIRED:

• Experience with coordinating and implementing systems-based solutions centered on social justice, anti-racism, and equity
• Demonstrated ability to interact effectively across racially diverse teams, partners, and experiences
• Demonstrated ability to maintain and create relationships with student and departmental groups through attending meetings and/or events, or completing necessary outreach
• An understanding of health and healthcare justice and the ways in which it disproportionately affects Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC)

 

QUESTIONS? Please contact Kelly Campbell, Staff Co-Chair, School of Pharmacy DEIC (kellyjc@uw.edu)

This position is now posted in Handshake: https://app.joinhandshake.com/jobs/5167271, so students can either apply there or by emailing the required documents to Kelly Campbell

Issue No. 80                                                                        August 10, 2021

New Publications
Henry, K. L., Agbeke, D. V., Tiberio, S. S., Kerr, D. C. R., Capaldi, D. M., Bailey, J. A., & Epstein, M. (2021). Does parents’ age at first birth moderate intergenerational continuity in early-onset cannabis use? Journal of Studies on Alcohol and Drugs, 82, 470-475.

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Resource navigation volunteers needed for upcoming health fair

Sunday, August 15th from 10AM-4PM 

hosted by the Vietnam Health Clinic

Location: Chua Co Lam (3503 S Graham St, Seattle, WA 98118

More information at: https://www.vnhealthclinic.org/).

 

SHIFTS: 9:30am-1:15pm or 12:45pm-4:30pm

Roles: 2-3 foot care (footcare training required), 2 general clinical, 1-2 resource navigation

There is a particular need for Vietnamese speaking volunteers! 

Interested:  Email (nncook@uw.edu)

Registration Link: https://forms.gle/kbrkGyNQHBJcz5f3A

Starts September 7th | Every 1st Tuesday of the month.

Upcoming dissertation defenses.

Below is a brief schedule for the defenses, as well as a flyer with all of the necessary info.

• Monday, August 9, 2:30pm – 3:30pm – Bianca Altamirano Kelly
• Tuesday, August 17, 9am – 10am – Hazal Erçin-Swearinger
• Thursday, August 19, 2pm – 3pm – Claire Willey-Sthapit

BCULST 592 Topics in Cultural Research: Black Arts North/West (5 credits)

Instructor: Jed Murr
W 5:45 – 10 pm

UW Bothell campus

SLN#22898

This course explores what theorist and poet Fred Moten calls the “autonomous aesthetic thrust of Black radicalism” as it has taken shape in multiple formations on the West Coast of the U.S. and in the Pacific Northwest from the 1960s to the present. Drawing on interdisciplinary scholarship that situates African American and Black diasporic life and politics on the West Coast in comparative and transnational frames, we will work to (1) collectively investigate this new body of scholarship with a specific focus on the Pacific Northwest; (2) generate place-based research and critical and creative writing about local political and aesthetic movements; and (3) engage together recent Black Digital Humanities projects as examples of public-facing, accountable, participatory, and accessible scholarship.

Students will be asked to attend–in-person or virtually–and write about local arts events, such as Barbara Earl Thomas’s The Geography of Innocence and upcoming exhibits at Wa Na Ri. We will also work together to build and curate two online archives, one focused on Black periodicals in the PNW and one on contemporary Black art practices. And we will interrogate the stakes of doing cultural studies work in a time of revolt against racial capitalism and its violences.

Questions?  Contact Jed Murr, jmurr@uw.edu

AHEC Scholars program is recruiting students for 2021-2023. Deadline is Sept 1. First class is Tuesday evenings in January (6 sessions), second class is Tuesday evenings in September (six sessions). If students have an academic conflict with those evenings, they will work with you to find a solution.

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The Office of the Youth Protection Coordinator is hiring for a part-time student program assistant. For more information and to apply, you can click here

Highlighted News and Announcements

Comment on how the Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health can improve the health of all Americans
The NIH and the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy are organizing a series of listening sessions to get feedback from patient advocacy groups, industry, scientific professional organizations, and other stakeholders to support planning for the Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health (ARPA-H). To review sessions of interest, please visit https://www.nih.gov/arpa-h/events. Please provide comments after participating in the listening session(s) by emailing them to Tasha Murphy (tbmurphy@uw.edu) by August 30, 2021. All SSW faculty comments will be compiled and submitted together.
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