Our world-class faculty and graduate students are creating leading-edge learning experiences for students. You can recognize their commitment to outstanding teaching by nominating them for one of the following awards:

• Distinguished Teaching Award
• Distinguished Teaching Award for Innovation with Technology
• Excellence in Teaching Award
• James D. Clowes Award for the Advancement of Learning Communities

How to nominate:

1. Review our teaching award descriptions page to choose the award you want to nominate your instructor for,
2. Go to our nomination form and submit your nomination letter (150-300 words describing the impact your instructor’s teaching has on student learning).

The deadline to submit your nomination is 12:00 p.m., November 13.

Do impacts of big tech reflect societal values?

I want to personally extend an invitation to join us at the annual Global Challenges event. Each year UW Honors produces an event for the entire campus community and beyond focused around a ‘global challenge’ that students have identified as important to them, and something they care about investigating in their education, regardless of discipline or major. This year the students have selected “Technology, Ethics, and Social Change”. Come join the conversation with campus and community leaders around this important topic.

The University of Washington Honors Program presents:

Technology, Ethics and Social Change: Who Cares?
November 6, 2019, 6:30 p.m.
HUB North Ballroom
Public//Free

UW Honors is excited to bring together speakers Anna Lauren Hoffmann (UW iSchool), Ece Kamar (Microsoft Research) and Shankar Narayan (ACLU) for a fast-paced interdisciplinary conversation about the political, economic and social forces that govern (or don’t govern) rapidly evolving digital technologies.

UW Honors Program: HONORS.UW.EDU

If you would like reserved seating within easy sight of our event’s American Sign Language interpreter, please email forcarey@uw.edu. To request any other disability accommodation, contact the Disability Services Office at 206.543.6450 (voice), 206.543.6452 (TTY) or dso@u.washington.edu, preferably at least 10 days in advance of the event.

Join Us!

Where would you go if you had eight months to travel solo? Which two continents and six countries would you visit? What experiences would you seek out? How would you be transformed?

Each year a handful of lucky University of Washington students get to make those decisions as they embark on the adventure of a lifetime with the support of a Bonderman Fellowship. The 2020 application is open and you may be eligible to apply for this $23,000 fellowship that supports independent exploration and travel abroad.

Bonderman Fellows undertake international travel on their own for eight months, to six or more countries in two or more major regions of the world. Through solo travel fellows focus on exploration and discovery, learning about the world and themselves in it.  Each Fellowship carries a $23,000 award to be used only for extended solo international travel. Fellows may not conduct research, pursue an academic project, or participate in a formal program or organization.

Applications are due by 12:00 pm (noon) January 13, 2020. In person and online information session information can be seen here.

More information and the application can be found at bonderman.uw.edu, but please review the eligibility requirements to see if you may apply.

Eligibility:
All applicants must be enrolled (for graduate students: “on leave” status is not considered enrolled) and in good standing at the UW during the quarter the application is due (Winter 2020) and must hold US citizenship or permanent resident status. Good standing in this regard refers not only to academic but also disciplinary and conduct standing. Additionally:

GRADUATE/PROFESSIONAL STUDENTS: All students in graduate or professional degree programs are eligible to apply.

UNDERGRADUATE STUDENTS: All undergraduate students with senior credit standing AND who also meet ONE of the following criteria are eligible to apply:

• at least a 3.50 cumulative UW GPA by the start of Winter 2020; OR
• participation and good standing in the University Honors Program (Interdisciplinary, Departmental, or College Honors) or in UW Tacoma’s Global Honors Program, by the start of Winter 2020. Undergraduates in one of these honors programs DO NOT need to have 3.50 UW GPA or higher to apply, but must be in good standing in their respective programs, whatever that might mean.

To learn more about this extraordinary opportunity, please review the Applying and FAQ sections of the website.

Dear All,

Would you be able to help us spread the word about the spring quarter InterAction Nepal study abroad program which is co-sponsored by the Department of Landscape Architecture, Nepal Studies Initiative/South Asia Center in the Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies, and the Department of Global Health? We’re open to receiving applicants from undergraduates and graduate students alike. Any dissemination through email listservs, bulletins, or social media would be greatly appreciated.

InterAction Nepal | Design, Development, Global Health | Spring | 2020
InterAction Nepal is an immersive, interdisciplinary study abroad program offered with the support of the UW Department of Landscape Architecture, the JSIS South Asia Center Nepal Studies Initiative and the Department of Global Health. The program will challenge you to delve into contemporary issues surrounding urban development in the Kathmandu Valley and respond to them at a local scale through community-based participatory design, project implementation and assessment. You will work with Nepali students and residents of an underserved community to design and build a small-scale project and evaluate its impacts on human and environmental health. You will also have the opportunity to pursue your own design or research interests through independent study. Program activities include lectures and discussions, language instruction, field trips within and outside the Kathmandu Valley, community workshops and hands-on design/fabrication/construction.

Information Sessions:

• WEDNESDAY, OCT. 23RD @ 12:30pm – Gould Hall 442
• THURSDAY OCT. 31ST @ 12:30pm – Thomson Hall 317
• FRIDAY NOV. 8TH @ 12:30pm – Harris Hydraulics Small Conf. Rm
• THURSDAY NOV. 14th – Study Abroad Fair@10am-2pm – HUB BALLROOM

Program Brochure / Applications:

Please visit the UW Study Abroad application portal here.

Applications Due: November 15^th

Applications submitted by November 15th will be given preferred consideration.
Applications submitted after November 15th will be considered on a rolling basis, if space is still available.

Contact:

Ben Spencer

bspen@uw.edu

Dear American Indian and Indigenous Studies Community,

On November 8th the Center is helping to host the Mellon Foundation. We are hoping to have a good turn out at the reception from 2:15-3:30pm to demonstrate the thriving community we have here. This is a great opportunity to connect with each other and a foundation that is a leading contributor to the humanities.

If you are in town, please try and join us for this important event. Please RSVP (by Friday) so we can figure out the amount of food needed.

Want to finish the next 5 weeks strong? Don’t miss out on the first Power Hour this quarter with Dr. Clarence Spigner this Wednesday!
Dr. Spigner will facilitate an interactive discussion entitled: Thriving in Graduate School- 10 Tips for Graduate Students of Color. Get some more tips and tricks to get you through the next 5 weeks of the quarter and gain some helpful advice for the rest of your graduate school journey. Don’t miss this great discussion!

Thriving in Graduate School: 10 Tips for Graduate Students of Color 
Wednesday, October 23, 2019
4-5:20PM
South Campus Center 301

Register for this Power Hour by clicking on the purple button below! 

p.s. Come hungry, there will be yummy food!

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Fall Quarter’s Staying Connected [11.1.2019]

After Getting Connected, we’ve got to Stay Connected! Join your new GO-MAP friends and the GO-MAP family at the first Staying Connected Happy Hour of the quarter on November 1st from 5:30PM-7:00PM at Still Liquor in Capitol Hill!

Our fabulous Graduate Student Advisory Board is excited to meet you!

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Give Back. Give Forward.
Want to become an Outreaching Grad (OG)?

Are you interested in giving back to our communities AND giving forward to ensure graduate opportunities remain open to all?

Sign up to be one of GO-MAP’s Outreaching Grads today! Fill out the 2019-2020 online application form here and sign up for one of the following OG Training sessions:

1. October 22, 2019, 10-11:30am
2. November 1, 2019, 2-3:30pm
3. December 6, 2019, 1-2:30pm

Have questions? Contact cwj@uw.edu with your question today!

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I’m currently an RSA with the School of Medicine working on the Seattle Flu Study, an initiative investigating the burden and transmission dynamics of respiratory viruses in Seattle; specifically, I help research/site coordination for sub-studies in homeless populations.

Our lab is looking to hire students in the School of Social Work interested in the health of those experiencing homelessness to help recruit and enroll these populations in our study, which will take place over the course of flu season (Now – May).

Shelter RSA Position Description

Katz Distinguished Lecture: Chadwick Allen, Earthworks Rising: Mound Building in Native Art & Literature

Tuesday, Dec. 3, 2019, 7 – 8:30 p.m.

210 Kane Hall 

Beginning in the eighteenth century, so-called scientific theories proclaimed that a “lost” race vastly superior to America’s “savage” Indians must have built the massive mounds spread across the Southeast and the valleys of the Mississippi and Ohio rivers. Although the myth of the Mound Builders was debunked by the end of the nineteenth century, its influence has lingered.  What accounts for this ongoing appeal within dominant discourses? And how have Indigenous intellectuals worked to imagine their way outside the myth to represent the complexity and multiple functions of the diverse earthen structures actually built by their ancestors?

In this lecture, Chadwick Allen draws from his new book manuscript, Earthworks Rising: Mound Building in Native Art, Literature, and Performance, in which he investigates how Native writers and artists engage ancient earthworks in contemporary productions. What emerges is a counter-tradition that centers Indigenous worldviews and privileges Indigenous research methodologies—a paradigm we might call Indigenous humanities.

Chadwick Allen is Professor of English, Adjunct Professor of American Indian Studies, Co-director of the Center for American Indian and Indigenous Studies (CAIIS), and Associate Vice Provost for Faculty Advancement at the University of Washington.  Author of the books Trans-Indigenous: Methodologies for Global Native Literary Studies (2012) and Blood Narrative: Indigenous Identity in American Indian and Maori Literary and Activist Texts (2002), he is a former editor for the journal Studies in American Indian Literatures and a past president of the Native American and Indigenous Studies Association (NAISA).

Happy National Coming Out Day!

We love that we get to celebrate this special day by opening our 2019-20 scholarship application!

Through this program, Pride Foundation provides critical financial resources and community support to LGBTQ+ and allied student leaders across the Northwest.  Since awarding our first scholarship in 1993, we have awarded over $6 million to more than 1,800 students in Alaska, Idaho, Montana, Oregon, and Washington.

Through the incredible generosity of our community, Pride Foundation has more than 60 scholarship funds—but students only need to complete one application. The variety of different funds allow us to offer a wide range of scholarship awards that encourage students of all backgrounds and educational interests to apply.

LGBTQ+ and allied students who live in Alaska, Idaho, Montana, Oregon, or Washington are likely eligible to apply for a Pride Foundation Scholarship—you can find out more details about the criteria, process, and the application here. 

Please spread the word to students in your networks—or apply yourself! Applications are due Friday, January 10, 2020.

We cannot wait to meet the 2020 cohort of Pride Foundation Scholars!

UW School of Social Work is proud to welcome back Chicano Artivsta
and Grammy Award Winning Musician and Producer,
Quetzal Flores

for an interactive workshop entitled

Regenerative Process through Dialogue and Collective Songwriting:
Cultivating Cultural Vitality and Social Justice 

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Hello from California! My name is Joy Contreras and I currently serve as a Management Assistant with the City of Long Beach, California. We are recruiting for the 2020-2021 cohort of the Management Assistant Program, and I hope to distribute this information to your graduating students (see attached flyer).

The City of Long Beach, California is looking for talented aspiring public leaders interested in applying their skills to serve a diverse, full-service city of 470,000 residents. Established in 1980, the City of Long Beach Management Assistant program is the longest-running municipal management development program in California. The Management Assistant Program provides talented and motivated individuals with experience and skills to become innovative local government leaders. Management Assistants experience a paid one-year apprenticeship working in four three-month rotations in various city departments alongside career department heads. For more information, visit our website. 

Alumni of the Management Assistant Program have held many key positions in the City including Assistant City Manager, Deputy City Manager, and Directors of Economic Development, Development Services, and Human Resources. Alumni have also taken leadership positions in various other local government agencies, as well as non-profits and philanthropic organizations. 

Applications to the program can be found here and are due on January 20, 2020 at 11:59pm.  

Qualifications: Applicants must have completed the requirements for a Master’s Degree in an applicable field such as but not limited to: Public Administration, Public Policy, Urban Planning, Business Administration, Organizational Leadership, and Social Work by June 2020 and must have 6 months of relevant experience. 

Salary: Approximately $57,210, a full benefits package, and a CalPERS defined pension with an employee participation currently at 6.5 percent of salary.  

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Yale Child Study Center
Two-Year Post-MSW Fellowship in Advanced Clinical Social Work

Developing Leaders in Clinical Social Work

The Post-MSW Fellowship at the Yale Child Study Center is a two-year training program providing advanced training for social workers aiming to provide excellent clinical interventions with children, youth, and families, and become leaders in the field of clinical social work. Social Work Fellows participate in both multidisciplinary and discipline-specific training, which includes didactics, intensive supervision, and direct practice, with engagement in an elective project and/or area of specialization in the second year of the training program. The second-year elective is chosen by each individual Social Work Fellow and tailored to their specific interests and career goals through options available at the Yale Child Study Center, through collaboration with the larger community (hospitals, schools, agencies, etc.), and/or created by themselves.

Each Social Work Fellow will be assigned to a host clinical setting, which will be either the Intensive In-Home Child and Adolescent Psychiatric Services (IICAPS) or the Outpatient Clinic (OPC), with candidate’s preference for placement taken into consideration. The clinical experience includes clinical assessment, treatment planning, individual psychotherapy, family treatment, child guidance, parent guidance, and case coordination and management, along with weekly multidisciplinary Clinical Rounds presentations and discussions.

Within the respective host clinical setting, each Fellow will receive supervision with licensed clinical social workers who are senior members of the Yale Child Study Center faculty. Over the course of the two-year training program, Social Work Fellows will accrue clinical and supervision hours sufficient to meet licensing requirements in the state of Connecticut. Depending on local regulations, these requirements may be reciprocal when applying for licensing in other states.

As of 2020, our training program is formally collaborating with the Yale New Haven Hospital Department of Social Work and offering opportunities for second-year elective placement on patient units including pediatrics, maternal health, and adult medicine, with training and supervision provided by senior hospital social work staff.

We serve diverse families and are committed to recruiting applicants from diverse backgrounds.

Application forms and additional information can be found online: http://medicine.yale.edu/childstudy/education/advanced/acsw

Late or incomplete packages will not be accepted. Email anne.santello@yale.edu with any questions.

The Native Center for Alcohol Research Education (NCARE) Webinar Series presents:

Transitions to Recovery
with Dr. Patricia Valverde, Callie Noomah, and Riley Witte
Wednesday, October 30, 2019, 11AM-12PM PDT

Data from the Fairbanks Native Association Gateway to Recovery (GTR) detoxification program in 2018 showed that only about 2% of individuals receiving detox services transitioned to longer-term treatment. Transitions to Recovery (TTR) is a pilot study being conducted in Fairbanks, Alaska, that aims to increase the number of detoxification center consumers who initiate long-term recovery within 30 days of discharge.

This webinar will describe the intervention, including the motivational interviewing session and the patient navigation support commonly provided to participants as part of the TTR intervention. In addition, there will be discussion about the challenges to facilitating transitions to recovery for particularly vulnerable consumers, including those experiencing chronic homelessness.

We invite you to learn more about the work being done in this pilot project by attending the webinar on October 30.

More information about this webinar can be found here: https://ireach.wsu.edu/ncare/category/webinars/

This webinar is free, but registration is required.

Please register here.

I am passing along this volunteer opportunity — Entre Hermanos is an LGBTQ Latinx organization here in Seattle. Their services include HIV/AIDS prevention, immigration advocation, community building, and civic engagement.

Each year, they host a Day of the Dead gala — this year, it will be on November 2. They’re in need of volunteers to help put on this event (e.g., work coat check, helping make flower arrangements, set up/clean up, and more).

If you’re interested/available, please complete this form to sign up!

Joshua Children’s Foundation Center on Child Sexual Abuse announces Center Fellowships for MSW Students.

The Joshua Center at the SSW is devoted to supporting the next generation of leaders in social work committed to making an impact on child sexual abuse and to the study and prevention of child sexual abuse.  Winter 2019-Spring 2020 Fellowships are available in the amount of $2000 per quarter.

Fellows are expected to have a personal commitment to work after graduation in some aspect of professional response to childhood sexual abuse.  Applications should include a brief description of past experience in childhood sexual abuse (either with children or adults abused in childhood) and how the project will further capacity to work effectively in some aspect of childhood sexual abuse.

A proposal for a two-quarter project relating to some aspect of child sexual abuse should be the central feature of the application.  The project should result in a product based on two quarters effort. The product may be a paper submitted for publication, handouts for parents or professionals on a key issue in child abuse (e.g. warning signs for sexual abuse or sexual abuse prevention in diverse communities) or a presentation with Power Point slides.  The application should specifically identify an issue in child sexual abuse, describe why it is important, and what activities will take place with Fellowship funds.  Routine work at either a place of employment or at a field placement are not applicable for Joshua support.  Awardees must meet not less than three times a quarter with Center staff in pursuit of the project. Final presentations on the project will take place at the SSW in June 2020.

Applications should be submitted to Jon Conte, Professor and Director of the Joshua Center at contej@u.washington.edu.  Applications are due by November 1.

Do you care about issues of body liberation, size/weight diversity, eating disorders, fat acceptance, and body image?

UW SWAG (Sizeism, Weightism Advocacy Group) is a group that believes in supporting size diversity and body respect for all. We work at integrating an understanding of size and weight discrimination into an intersectional understanding of social justice issues. We typically plan events based around sizeism advocacy, body-positive community building, eating disorder recovery and awareness, and body image exploration. If you are interested in any of these issues, please feel free to come and check out the group.

For our first meeting of the year, we will meet Friday November 1 at 2:30pm-4:00pm in Room 306 at the UW School of Social Work. At the meeting, we will get to know each other at bit, and discuss what we would like to do as a group this year. Please come and bring your ideas! Also, feel free to contact me directly with any questions about the group, or if you are not able to attend, but would like to get connected with other folks.

Dear colleagues in the School of Social Work,

My name is Jingyi Li and am a 3^rd year doctoral student in the School of Nursing. I am reaching out to let you know a great opportunity to participate in a research project, involving partnership with the Asian Counseling and Referral Services (ACRS).

The purpose for our research project is to explore perceptions and knowledge related to memory loss among Asian immigrants (Samoan, Chinese, Cambodian, and Korean) through focus groups. The focus groups will be held in the native language of the participants.

We are looking for two UW students with any of the following expertise:

1. Be able to speak fluently in Cambodian or Samoan.
2. Have experience moderating a focus group discussion.
3. Be able to translate focus group transcripts in Cambodian or Samoan.

If you have the above skills and are interested in joining a highly innovative team, have potential independent study experience, future reference letter writing and work with a stellar community partner, please send an email indicating your relevant expertise and attach your resume.  We are applying for IRB approval now and plan to conduct the focus groups in November of 2019.

If you are interested, please send your resume and an email with the subject line “ADP Volunteer Application” to adpuwproject@gmail.com . Applications will be reviewed as they arrive. The goal is to onboard the volunteer(s) end of this October with the focus groups scheduled for November. Attached is the flyer for this recruitment. If you know anyone may be interested in this opportunity, please help us distribute the flyer!

Hello Prevention Science & HD Colleagues,

If you know of undergraduate or Master’s students that might be interested in our Prevention Science PhD Program at Washington State University, please share this with them. We will be hosting two informational webinars on October 29^th and November 15^th to describe the goals, structure, and various opportunities in the program. Faculty, students, and our alumni will also answer questions about the program and the application process. Thank you!  Applications will be reviewed beginning December 1, 2019.

More info: https://mailchi.mp/1386afcd7a09/wsu-prevention-science-phd-program-741051?e=14853af8ba

We hope you are doing well. Our first Transracial Adoptee Group meet up for 2019-2020 will be on Friday, November 8, 2019 from 2:30-3:30pm at the School of Social Work Room 116.

TAG is open to anyone (student, staff, faculty) within the School of Social Work community who identifies as a transracial adoptee. Please join us to meet each other and start to plan activities for this year.

Light refreshments will be provided. Please notify us ASAP if you have any need for accommodations and/or food allergies.

If you have any questions, concerns, and/or comments, please contact Beth Van Fossan (bethvf@uw.edu) or myself. TAG Faculty members are Michelle Bagshaw, Jennifer Brower, Beth Van Fossan, and Saul Tran Cornwall.

UW Medicine’s Health Equity department and the UW TGNB Health Program are hosting a community conversation on Tuesday October 22nd from 6pm to 8pm. This is an opportunity for the TGNB community and their caregivers to tell UW Medicine about their experiences with the UW health system as TGNB identified folks and/or their caregivers.

The event will be held at Lifelong, 1016 E Pike St 3rd Fl, Seattle, WA, 98122

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