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Date, Time, and Logistics:

Thursday, Oct. 31, 2024
Husky Union Building (HUB) Room 340, UW Seattle Campus
Registration required as space is limited.
Free snacks and refreshments will be provided.

First session: Open to international graduate students   
11 a.m. – 12 p.m.
Register: https://forms.office.com/r/09NJ3FZeTU

Second session: Open to first-generation graduate students and historically underrepresented graduate students  
12:15 p.m. – 1:15 p.m.
Register: https://forms.office.com/r/09NJ3FZeTU

These workshops will be facilitated by LiveWell Peer Health Educators, in partnership with the Center for International Relations & Cultural Leadership Exchange and The Graduate School’s Graduate Student Affairs and Graduate Student Equity & Excellence. 

The School of Social Work’s Anti-Racist White Affinity Group (ARWAG) is holding its first meeting of the school year on Tuesday, October 15th, from 6-7pm in Room 038 at the School of Social Work! We’d love to have you join us and help build out the group for the new school year.

If you have any questions or access needs, please email uwsswarwag@uw.edu or Aaron at agwheele@uw.edu. We’ll hold this first meeting in-person only but may have subsequent meetings hybrid or virtually. Let us know if you’d prefer this option in the future!

Please join us on October 17th for the School of Social Work’s Fall Welcome. The event is from 4pm-6:30pm and will take place throughout the entire SSW building. The event is an open house that will showcase faculty research, student groups and provide our faculty and staff with the opportunity to take professional headshots for our website directory. Join us for a chance to connect with students, staff and faculty members, participate in a building-wide scavenger hunt and enjoy some snacks and beverages.

Dean Mike Spencer will also deliver an opening welcome at 4:30 in room 305.

If you plan to attend, please take a moment to fill out this google form, as this will help our event organizers appropriately plan for the event:  https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSf6b8gJ9zuEEd5AkDEZxipVwQfaI_l4fcfQwKKyWSmqIdTpCg/viewform

Happy Fall All from the School of Social Work BIPOC Affinity Group!

About us: This affinity group holds space for SSW students, staff, and faculty who self-identify as BIPOC, including Black, Indigenous, People of Color, Brown, Asian & Pacific Islander, Mixed & Multiracial folks. 

This is an informal, student-centered group, voluntarily supported by staff and faculty at the School of Social Work – if you’d like to learn more, join us at the SSW Fall Welcome Event next Thursday, Oct. 17 from 5-6:30PM and fill out our Fall Interest Survey – we are looking for new student leadership to help support the direction of this effort. Following the welcome, a group of folks will be headed to The Burke for the GSEE Getting Connected Reception (registration is required!).

SAVE THE DATE: Our first gathering will be held on Thursday, November 14^th at the SSW from 4:30-6PM in room 305B – more info to come!

To stay connected sign up for our listserv today!

UW BIPOC Adoptee Collective Affinity Group, previously known as TAG (Transracial Adoptee Group), is hosting its first gathering of the academic year on October 15, 2024, from 5:30 to 7:00 pm. We hope to see you there!

The UW BIPOC Adoptee Collective is hosted by the UW School of Social Work and is open to all adoptee current UW (tri-campus) students, staff, and faculty who identify as Black, Indigenous, and/or a person of color. 

When: October 15, 2024, 5:30 – 7:00 pm PT

Where: SSW Room 306AB

What: Come reconnect, meet other BIPOC adoptees, and enjoy some yummy food

Feel free to invite other UW BIPOC adoptees you know and please fill out this RSVP form by October 13th at 10:00pm PT. 

If you have any questions, please contact our student leads, Grace Schamber, at gscham@uw.edu and Phoebe Suva, at psuva@uw.edu. 

We hope to see you on October 15th! 

Group therapy provides students the space to get support and help mutual growth with fellow students sharing similar experiences. These groups are facilitated by therapists and are available at no out-of-pocket cost. Please note that there are a limited number of spots for each group therapy.

What exactly is group therapy? Group therapy is a form of psychotherapy where a small group of individuals come together under the guidance of a trained therapist to share their experiences, discuss their challenges, and work on their personal growth. For college students, group therapy can provide a supportive environment to address common issues such as stress, anxiety, depression, relationship problems, and academic pressures.

  Here are some groups with current openings:

• ACT (Acceptance and Commitment Therapy) for Anxiety
• Beginning Mindfulness Meditation
• Between Cultures (for students who identify with multiple cultures & struggle with belonging)
• Feminist Process Group for Graduate Students
• Ongoing Mindfulness Group
• Procrastination and Perfectionism
• Queer Tabletop Roleplaying Game Group
• Umoja: Support Group focused on Black and Brown Womxn Graduate Student Experiences

Check out the Groups page for descriptions, times and a comprehensive list of all the groups.  To join a group, call 206-543-1240.

RSVP and join all info sessions for scholarships that interest you. 

1. Soros Fellowship for New Americans Information Session for the UW community: Monday, September 23 | 12 – 12:30 p.m. | Zoom: RSVP for Zoom here 

Each Fellow receives up to $90,000 in financial support over two years towards graduate study.  

Open to UW undergrads, graduate/professional students and alumni in all fields who are immigrants and/or children of immigrants. Deadline for applications this year is Oct. 31, 2024 (2pm ET). 

2. Gilman Scholarship Information Session: Tuesday, September 24 | 4 – 5 p.m. | Zoom: RSVP here 

The Benjamin A. Gilman International Scholarship Program offers scholarships of up to $5,000 to Pell Grant recipients participating in credit-bearing study abroad programs. Students studying critical need languages may receive up to $3000 more, and those conducting STEM-research abroad may receive up to $1000 more.  National deadline: Thursday, October 10, 2024, at 11:59pm Pacific Time.

Gilman Application/Feedback Workshop: Wednesday, October 2 | 3 – 4:30 p.m. | in-person in MGH 171: RSVP here 

3. Scholarship Search Party – Searching for Scholarships 101: Monday, October 14 | 3 – 4:30 p.m. | in-person in MGH 171 

Searching for scholarships and awards is not the most exciting task in the world. Join us – we will share search strategies and work in community during this low-stress opportunity to get motivated and to encourage one another. Snacks provided, bring your laptop and detective skills to this Scholarship Search Party! 4. Click here to learn more about other info sessions and scholarship writing sessions for September and October.  https://expd.uw.edu/scholarships/events/

WELCOME BACK TO AUTUMN QUARTER 2024!

Please join us for some qualitea time at our SWAPI event on Thursday, October 3, 2024 from 5:30-7:00pm at Oasis Tea Zone (no-host, no purchase required to attend).

This will be our first event of AY24-25 for SWAPI members. Come socialize, reconnect, and meet new members of the SWAPI School of Social Work (SSW) community (international students who identify as API are welcome to attend).

You can meet us at Oasis Tea Zone or meet a SWAPI lead in front of the SSW (on 15th Ave NE) and walk together. Find more details below.

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New and returning first-generation graduate students are cordially invited to kick off the academic year by attending this welcome event! Build community with peers, hear insights from first-gen faculty and graduate student guest speakers, and enjoy free dinner and refreshments.

Date & Time: Thursday, Oct. 10, 2024, 5 p.m. – 6:15 p.m. (Doors open at 4:45 p.m.)
Location: HUB 250, UW Seattle Campus
Google map:  https://maps.app.goo.gl/YFEVyR3tETWa4hFU7
Dinner and refreshments will be provided. 
Questions? uwgsa@uw.edu

Registration required as space is limited (log in with UW NetID):
https://forms.office.com/r/68xPDtguPB

Featuring guest speakers:

• Dr. Kristie A. Spencer, PhD, Professor & Associate Chair, Speech & Hearing Sciences, Seattle campus
• Vincent Da, Master’s student, Health Administration, Seattle campus 

This event is sponsored by the office of Graduate Student Affairs in The Graduate School.

New and Returning international graduate students, we are very excited to host this in-person welcome and welcome back event of the 2024-25 academic year for you! Featured speakers from university leadership and key student service offices will share resources critical to your success. Join us to enjoy an opportunity to connect with peers via fun activities and a dinner reception. 

Date & Time: Friday, Oct. 4, 2024, 4 p.m. – 6 p.m.
Location: HUB, Room Lyceum
Google Map: https://maps.app.goo.gl/67httZCPPqy5GyaS9
Campus Map: https://www.washington.edu/maps/#!/hub
Registration is required for this event: https://forms.office.com/r/6HAABQ28Bj

This event is co-sponsored by the Center for International Relations and Cultural Leadership Exchange (CIRCLE) and Office of Graduate Student Affairs in The Graduate School. Send questions to Ziyan Bai, CIRCLE Assistant Director of Graduate Programs and Operations, at baiziyan@uw.edu. 

The UW Interdisciplinary Graduate Aging Group is a graduate student research cluster that aims to foster a community of aging scholars from across the academy, who are interested in the cross-disciplinary significance of aging research. United by an interest in understanding aging as a multidimensional phenomenon, the group engages with an array of concepts, theories, and perspectives that enrich the narrative of aging and deepen our appreciation for its value and complexity.

Co-led by Nicolai Wohns (PhD student, Philosophy) and Sarah McKiddy (PhD student, Nursing), the group is primarily composed of graduate students from both the humanities and the sciences, but is open to post-docs and faculty as well. We will meet twice monthly starting in autumn quarter, alternating a journal club session with a guest faculty lecture from various fields. The first meeting will be at 5pm on September 26th in the The Hans Rosling Center, Room 101.

If interested, please fill out this form to indicate your interest and availability. You can also contact Nicolai at nwohns@uw.edu for more information.

Hello SSW Community,

For the past several years, SWAPI has coordinated a UW SSW Team for the annual Asian Counseling and Referral Service Walk for Rice fundraiser for the ACRS Food Bank. We have a great group of SSW staff, faculty, students, and loved ones signed up for this year’s team… and we welcome more of you to join us! We welcome any type of participation (ie. join the team, donate, walk with us, eat with us). We are hoping to have a team lunch after the event.

Saturday, June 29, 2024 – UW SSW and SWAPI – Walk for Rice at Seward Park, ACRS (Asian Counseling and Referral Service) fundraiser for their food bank. Open to everyone in the school! Join our team and/or donate! https://give.acrs.org/team/575717 (you do not have to donate to join our team)

New Location: This year, the Walk for Rice stage and performances will be located at the Torii Gate on the north side of the park entrance. Look out for the registration tent and our iconic WFR letters. (Click here for a map)

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