Are you attending a conference anytime from February 1st to March 14th, 2020? Then you should apply for the Early Winter Travel Grant through the Graduate & Professional Student Senate’s Budget & Finance Committee.

Applications are due January 10th! Find out more information on their website!

Eligibility and application information are on the website. Please send any additional inquiries to gpssbs@uw.edu and gpsstres@uw.edu.

The 13th Annual Legislative Reception is Friday, November 15th at 5:00pm. RSVP here to talk with state legislators about the issues you care about, over a free dinner. GPSS will also be presenting our 2020 legislative agenda to showcase what we are advocating for on behalf of all graduate and professional students.

Can’t make the legislative reception? Mark your calendar for Tuesday, February 11th for the Graduate and Professional Student Advocacy Day in Olympia!

Federal Update: the Higher Education Act (HEA) reauthorization has been proposed in both the House and Senate. Both chambers are talking about the details in committee – read more details on the House version here!

All student parents and caregivers are encouraged to RSVP for a free dinner on November 16th to meet others in the community and provide feedback on ways student leaders can improve the experiences of parents and caregivers on campus. Children welcome!

November 16 6-8 PM
Location: Laurel Village Community Center
4200 Mary Gates Memorial Dr NE, Seattle, WA 98105

Want to represent the School of Social Work in the Graduate and Professional Student Senate? Are you interested in leadership experience and problem solving? They have open Senate seats and are looking particularly for international students and those from underrepresented communities to join us as the representative body for all grad students. Contact gpss@uw.edu to learn how to become a representative!

The Graduate & Professional Student Senate have ongoing need for graduate and professional students to represent GPSS and your 15,000 constituents in committees across campus. Some of these committees are overseen by campus partners, some by faculty, others by administrators. It is crucial that students be involved in decision-making processes at all levels of campus, which is why we ask for your involvement. Lastly, these positions also serve as tremendous professional development and networking opportunities. If you are interested in a GPSS liaison position, please apply here.

Happy Hour at Pilobolus! Join us for an mind-blowing evening of dance at Meany Hall’s Pilobolus on Thursday, November 14th, at 8:00pm.

Graduate and Professional students can buy a $10 ticket online using the code GPSS@Pilobolus (one ticket per student ID).

Come by Meany Hall at 7:00pm before the show for a GPSS happy hour in the VIP Lounge: free drinks, hors’ d’oeuvres, and the chance to meet fellow students across departments!

Questions? Contact Sarah Faulkner at gpssevnt@uw.edu

Exhibits 6-7:30pm
Lecture/Panel 730-9pm
Tickets: Free for students with code LEO19
RSVP HERE

Please join a public lecture by Leonardo da Vinci historian Domenico Laurenza, followed by a panel discussion with UW faculty experts from a range of Leonardo’s areas of interest and exploration.

Enjoy pre-lecture exhibits and demonstrations by UW faculty, staff and students, illustrating the interface of science, art and technology.

Consider:  Who has a better chance of surviving to age 60, a 15-year old girl in the United States or a 15-year old girl in Sri Lanka?

If you chose the girl in the US, you need to take Hserv 482 / Global Health 482, this Winter Quarter, to find out why Americans are not living longer despite our advanced medical resources.

There are no prerequisites except an open mind.  There is a take-home exam.
Class meets Tu/Th 4:30 to 5:50 plus an hour’s section meeting on Friday.
4 credits, qualifies for I&S as well as well as GH minor or PH major.
SLN  15401 (HSERV 482) or 15022 (G H 482)

For questions contact instructors:  Stephen Bezruchka sabez@uw.edu  or Sara Mackenzie saramack@uw.edu

Population Health Hs 482/GH 482 explores what makes a country more or less healthy in comparison to others.
Why do Japanese women enjoy increasingly better health status in comparison to all other nations?Why is our health getting worse?  Why is mortality for US women increasing in almost half of our counties?
Why are we one of 8 nations globally seeing an increase in deaths of women in childbirth?
Why, why, why?  We spend over half of all the world’s health care dollars, 3.5 trillion in 2017 – a sixth of our total economy.  What is going on?

Hserv 482/G H 482, The Health of Populations, looks at countries to understand how people there achieve their health status.  Students in the past have enjoyed the course and have found the material to be invigorating.

One student claims, “This class demolished everything i thought about health, healthcare and human behavior!,” another said “This course ruined my life – in the best way possible” and another student said that, “This class was the most thought-provoking course that I’ve taken at the UW.  “This class was super intellectually stimulating!!”

Learning occurs in the active learning classroom at the South Campus Center with section meetings facilitated by outstanding TAs complemented by readings and explorations of health outcomes. Students seed the concepts learned into community meetings they create and otherwise use their creativity.

The West Seattle Late Night program provides programming and a place to be or recreate for primarily low-income, minority, and immigrant teens. SSW students have an opportunity to create unique and effective programming for the kids, for example a Food Justice and Cooking class.

If interested please contact Jacob Alhadeff, Recreation Specialist at Seattle Parks & Recreation
Jacob.Alhadeff@seattle.gov
206-909-4791

“The Difference a Day Makes: How Pretrial Detention Informs Future Criminal Justice Contact”

Monday, November 18th
12:30 pm – 1:30 pm
(Q&A until 2:00pm)
School of Social Work, Room 305A

Led by Sandra Susan Smith, Sociology
University of California, Berkeley

This year the School has been approved for three faculty positions, two tenure track and one research faculty. In the tenure track positions we are recruiting candidates who have research and practice interests in direct or clinical practice. The Faculty Recruitment Committee is very pleased to announce that our first campus visit will be with Judy Perrigo on November 14^th and 15^th.  Please join us for Judy’s presentation on Thursday the 14^th from 12:30 to 1:30 in 305.  A light lunch will be served.

If you cannot join in-person, you can join remotely via live stream or you can view her job talk later using the link below.

https://uw.hosted.panopto.com/Panopto/Pages/Viewer.aspx?id=c06d4b21-8661-46f8-99db-ab00015ae1ac

Please note – Panopto only allows viewers with UWNETIDs to view the live stream and subsequent recording.

Judy’s  CV is attached and a biosketch is provided below.

Judy draws from her personal background as a Salvadoran immigrant and her professional applied clinical work (more than 15 years) with children and families to inform her scholarship. Judy’s research focuses on the well-being of young children, birth to five years old, with an emphasis on prevention and early intervention (PEI) initiatives. Her dissertation explores the role of parental involvement among low-SES students, preschool through second grade, who are closing the low/high-SES achievement gap. The strengths-based, two-phase explanatory sequential mixed methods dissertation enhances the existing longitudinal and experimental study, the NIDDK-funded Chicago Heights Early Childhood Center (CHECC) (PI: Samek). Access to the CHECC infrastructure, along with a multidisciplinary dissertation committee enables Judy to have a rich, unique, and transdisciplinary perspective. Public health implications of her dissertation highlight possible points of intervention to improve early childhood education programs that benefit low-SES preschool students. Additionally, Judy has taught graduate-level practice and research courses in the USC Keck School of Medicine and USC Suzanne Dworak-Peck School of Social Work.

Judy lists her research and practice interests as:

• Global and Domestic Child Protective Services
• Young Children’s Neurocognitive Development
• Early Childhood Education
• Children with Developmental Delays and Disabilities
• Underserved Ethnic Marginalized Children, Families and Communities

JudyPerrigo_CV_Fall2019

Spaces available in winter quarter:

Cross-Cultural Religious Literacy
JSIS 578 A (SLN 16031)
5cr; Mondays 11:30a-1:20p
Chris Seiple

Finding solutions to global challenges demands different perspectives, as well as partnerships among individuals and institutions who do not share the same values. How does one build unity without uniformity across sectors—each of which possess believers and faith-based actors—in order to effectively lead in complicated times? Through theory, case study and the practical experience of both the instructor and the students, this course understands and wrestles with the role of religion in context—at least as an underexamined analytic factor, and perhaps even as tremendous force for the common good – and seeks to teach the skill sets of evaluation (self & contextual), communication, and negotiation as a means to mutual literacy and respect across cultures and countries.

Do you identify as multiracial/mixed race/multiethnic? Please plan to join us Friday, December 6,  for a causal get together where we can share space and our experiences.

When: Friday, December 6  from 11:30-12:30

Where: Room 116 (off the gallery on floor 1)

Everyone welcome—students, staff and faculty!

Spaces available in winter quarter:

Cross-Cultural Religious Literacy

JSIS 578 A (SLN 16031)

5cr; Mondays 11:30a-1:20p

Chris Seiple

Finding solutions to global challenges demands different perspectives, as well as partnerships among individuals and institutions who do not share the same values. How does one build unity without uniformity across sectors—each of which possess believers and faith-based actors—in order to effectively lead in complicated times? Through theory, case study and the practical experience of both the instructor and the students, this course understands and wrestles with the role of religion in context—at least as an underexamined analytic factor, and perhaps even as tremendous force for the common good – and seeks to teach the skill sets of evaluation (self & contextual), communication, and negotiation as a means to mutual literacy and respect across cultures and countries.

The Graduate Opportunities and Minority Achievement Program (GO-MAP), in partnership with the Office of Minority Affairs and Diversity (OMA&D), is excited to announce the creation of the Alfonso Carlos Peña Graduate Fellowship!

The Peña Graduate Fellowship was established to provide support to graduate students engaged in research and/or activities related to wǝɫǝbʔaltxʷ (Intellectual House).

• Awardees must have financial need and an interest in and a commitment to addressing social and environmental issues impacting American Indian, Alaska Native, and/or other indigenous communities.
• This award is a one year/three quarter award with an annual stipend of $20,000, tuition and fees, and GAIP coverage. Departments must provide a match of comparable funding for the second year of graduate studies. For the 2019-2020 academic year, funding will be awarded Winter, Spring, and Summer quarters.

For award details and student eligibility, please see the attached PDF. Nominations must be made by the department in the MyGrad awards management system. Please login to nominate a student, by Monday, December 2^nd, 2019 at 11:59 PM PST.

Please contact Willa Kurland at 206.543.9016 or willamei@uw.edu, with any questions.

SEFS 550: Nature and Health

Description: Introduction and overview of evidence on the association of nature contact with human health. This includes a discussion of a variety of aspects of psychological and physical well-being, potential causal mechanisms, and explorations of the ways in which individual and population-level differences may moderate these impacts.

Thursdays 2:30 to 4:20 in ANDERSON HALL 304/306 2 credits SLN 19913

SafeCampus is looking for a fantastic senior-level undergraduate or graduate student to join our program in a paid internship for Winter and Spring quarters of 2020. SafeCampus is one of the only fully-funded threat assessment programs at a university nationwide, so this is a unique opportunity for anyone interested in violence prevention & threat assessment work in higher education. The SafeCampus intern position is now live on Handshake.

Applications close on November 25th, 2019 at 5:00 pm

This is a final reminder and invitation for you to stop by the SSW Admissions table in the Gallery this Friday, November 8th between 2:00-3:30 p.m. for free cupcakes, swag, and a button to show your support of #UWFirstGen students, staff and faculty!

LOCATION: UW School of Social Work building on the Seattle campus; our table will be setup in the “Gallery” (first floor of the building, between the ground floor and second floor). 

Visit our table to celebrate what it means to #BeTheFirst by getting your free #CelebrateFirstGen button and taking a photo to share on SSW’s Instagram @uwsocialwork to recognize and elevate the voices of first-generation scholars.

We are also seeking submissions from students, staff and faculty interested in volunteering a photo and one or two sentence quote (or longer story), in response to “what being first-gen means to you” – if you’d like to participate, please e-mail your photo and quote to sswinfo@uw.edu, for future use on social media and our website/materials for prospective SSW students.

You can pick up a first-gen buttonhttps://www.washington.edu/diversity/national-first-gen-day/buttons/ at the Office of Minority Affairs & Diversity, or by visiting our table in the SSW Gallery on November 8th; if you’d like a button before then, just stop by the front desk of SSW Admissions (Suite 023) and we’ve got one ready for you now!

See the SSW Admissions first-gen celebration page<http://socialwork.uw.edu/admissions/firstgencelebration> for more details, and be sure to explore the larger UW National First-Generation College Celebration https://www.washington.edu/diversity/national-first-gen-day/ website for info about related campus events https://www.washington.edu/diversity/national-first-gen-day/events/ – including Nov. 8th campus social hour gatherings for first-gen graduate students (RSVP recommended) where first-gen students can get free professional headshot photos and meet other first-gen grad students from across UW.

The University of Washington proudly supports the experiences of first-generation students. For the third straight year, the UW Bothell, Seattle and Tacoma campuses are joining colleges and universities throughout the nation to participate in the National First-Generation College Celebration https://firstgen.naspa.org/events/2018-first-generation-college-celebration on November 8, 2019. Led by the Council for Opportunity in Education (COE) and the NASPA Center for First-Generation Student Success, the day is intended to celebrate the success and presence of first-generation college students, faculty and staff on campuses across the country. Even if you’re not on campus November 8th, help UW #CelebrateFirstGen via social media and by exploring the URLs above for engagement opportunities.

5:00 – 6:00 pm (Doors open at 4:30)
Pacific Conference Room – Health Sciences Library, lower level, Room T229 (on the bottom floor of the Health Sciences Library)

Watch Trailer bit.ly/2JA5ejv

This hour-long documentary reflects on the historic struggle of civil rights activists who fought to make the American healthcare system equal and accessible to everyone regardless of skin color. Using the incentive of Medicare dollars, the federal government virtually ended the decades-long practice of racially segregating patients, doctors, medical staff, blood supplies and linens in a matter of months. And although these events took place more than a half-century ago, many of the issues surrounding health equity and the role of the government in healthcare continue to be relevant today.

Here’s what audiences had to say about the film:

“Having spent most of my career studying the civil rights movement, I assumed that I was well informed about its many dimensions. But watching Power to Heal was a revelation to me. The film is a fascinating and instructive story about the long American struggle for social justice.”
Clayborne Carson, Professor of History, Founding Director, The Martin Luther King, Jr., Research and Education Institute, Stanford University

“It is essential that students and young physicians from all backgrounds know their history and how our profession both supported and worked to dismantle segregated healthcare in our country. This is a critical film that not only speaks to a time that has passed in our American history; it foreshadows to the present. Segregated healthcare still persists and is highly invisible in this country – except to the people who experience the ills of it. And so this film challenges us all as physicians and soon-to-be physicians to recognize that our collective work to ensure justice in health must always move beyond our typical work within hospital walls.”
Aletha Maybank, Deputy Commissioner, NYC Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, Director, Center for Health Equity

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