Dear Students,

 

Are you considering a public health graduate degree? The UW Department of Health Systems and Population Health trains students for influential careers in public health practice and research, health administration, health promotion, and health policy. Attend our information session with program staff and panel of current students to learn more about the types of Master of Public Health (MPH) programs we offer and what makes each of them unique.

 

The Department of Health Systems and Population Health invites you to attend one of our “Which Public Health Degree is Right For Me?” sessions –

 

Which Public Health Degree Is Right for Me? (UW Seattle Campus)

Date/Time: October 12, 2021 6:00-8:00pm PT

Location: South Campus Center Room 301

Event Description: Join us for an info session, panel, and Q&A with program staff and current graduate students in our COPHP MPH, MPH in Health Services, and Online MPH programs. Refreshments will be served safely.

RSVP link: https://catalyst.uw.edu/webq/survey/hservask/412710

 

Which Public Health Degree Is Right for Me? (UW Bothell Campus)

Date/Time: November 17, 2021 5:30-7:30pm PT

Location: UW Bothell UW1-280 (Rose Room)

Event Description: Join us for an info session, panel, and Q&A with program staff and current graduate students in our COPHP MPH, MPH in Health Services, and Online MPH programs. Refreshments will be served safely.

RSVP link: https://catalyst.uw.edu/webq/survey/hservask/411113

 

Sent on behalf of Kenji Lin

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Hello everyone! My name is Kenji, and I am currently the president for Chanoyu Club at UW. We are an RSO that studies Japanese tea ceremony, or Chanoyu, which is a traditional activity involving the preparation and presentation of matcha green tea. While serving and drinking tea sounds like an easy task, many tea devotees have devoted their lifetimes to perfect the art.

Japanese confectionery and matcha is served during each meeting.

If interested, please take a look at our website and Instagram account, or contact us at chanoyuclub@uw.edu with any questions. Thank you!

Sent on behalf of Evalynn Romano

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Hello!

Shoes Update

Last week, I distributed 35 pairs of shoes to custodians who are back from furlough. This totals 217 pairs of shoes that were provided to UW custodians. THANK YOU for supporting our comfortable shoe fund. Not only did Super Jock ‘N Jill provide a generous discount for water-resistant, slip-resistant Hoka shoes, but they also provided 25% discount cards for custodians who would like another pair of safe, comfortable shoes. I am so grateful for our partnership!

 

(in)Visibility: UW Custodian Art Exhibit

In Fall 2020, I organized a photography-based storytelling (i.e., photovoice) project with 16 custodians who identify as an immigrant, refugee, and/or person of color through funding from the Campus Sustainability Fund. Their photos focused on the health impacts of their workplace and home. Some of these photos are displayed in the Art Building (north of the Quad), in a hallway adjacent to the Jacob Lawrence Art Gallery! Big thanks to Emily Zimmerman (Jacob Lawrence Art Gallery Director), UW School of Art + Art History + Design, and the Floyd and Delores Jones Endowed Fund for the Arts. If you are on campus, please stop by. It would be nice for these photos to travel around so more people can access them. If you have ideas of places on campus to house these photos during winter quarter, please let me know!

 

Website

The UW Custodian Project now has a website! Here you will find more information about advocacy efforts that I have led with support from you and other community members. You will also find galleries of additional photography and stories by custodians. www.uwcustodianproject.com

 

[Note: I am still working on website glitches. You might see a security note and once you get past that, you should be able to access the website.]

 

Campus is now open and custodians have been very busy keeping spaces disinfected and safe for the UW community. Please consider acknowledging and thanking a custodian (or several custodians) for their important work.

 

Thank you for your support!

 

In solidarity,

Evalynn

The Women’s Center is looking for two Making Connections Program Coordinators, an Assistant to the Director, and a couple of Admin Assistants. We prefer grad students in the program coordinator role and it’s a great opportunity for hands-on work with students, community outreach, etc.

 

All the positions can be found on the Center’s website: https://www.washington.edu/cms/womenscenter/get-involved/apply/

 

Here’s a direct link to the MC Coordinator Job Description: https://s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/uw-s3-cdn/wp-content/uploads/sites/155/2021/08/26163622/WOMC10-making-connections-coordinator-2021.pdf.

 

And here’s the Assistant one: https://s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/uw-s3-cdn/wp-content/uploads/sites/155/2021/08/26163623/WOMC11-assistant-to-the-director-2021.pdf

The Common Book Planning Committee would like to invite your participation in this year’s Health Sciences Common Book activities, based on Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants, by Robin Wall Kimmerer. The Common Book Program and UW Health Sciences serves as a platform for students and others from across health professions to learn together on topics of common importance. Throughout the schools, students and others have the opportunity to participate in a series of engaging discussions, advocacy efforts, and other activities focused on major topics of the book.

Common Book Session Signup

We’ve set up three Fall Quarter sessions focusing on themes in the book:

• Decolonization of Knowledge & Epistemology
  • Wednesday October 6, 12:30-1:30pm via Zoom
• The Gift Economy & Professional Codes of Ethics
  • Tuesday October 12, 12:30-1:30pm via Zoom
• Interconnectedness & Health
  • Monday October 18, 12:30-1:30pm in-person near Health Sciences Building (Seattle Campus)***

***10/18 session: This will be an outdoor activity and we encourage folks outside the Seattle area, reading Sweetgrass, to get out on their own experience related to interconnectedness and health – we’re happy to share ideas/resources

Learn about the Boren Awards and Critical Language Scholarships this fall! Both of these scholarships provide support for students learning critical languages abroad. These opportunities are open to both undergrad and grad applicants.

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Join us for an introduction to Boren and Critical Language Scholarships to fund language study abroad. Scholarships like the Boren and CLS provide funding to U.S. citizen students at varying levels of proficiency to study languages considered to be “critical” to U.S. interests.

 

These sessions will provide an overview of the scholarships and insights on how to develop competitive applications. We encourage first-generation students, students of color, and students who identify as underrepresented within the university to attend. Dates Below:

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UW Social Work Innovators on Creating Systemic Change

Please join us for the fifth in our eight-part lecture series with a presentation by Vern Harner, doctoral candidate and UW Excellence in Teaching Award recipient for innovations in accessibility-centered education.

The Leading Lights Speaker Series features some of the School’s most noted scholars and researchers who are in the forefront of driving systemic social change. Future speakers include Tessa Evans-Campbell, a nationally recognized scholar on Indigenous health, and Susan Kemp, who co-leads the Grand Challenge for Social Work on social responses to climate change. Learn more.

Livestream Lecture | Thursday, October 28 at 3:30 – 4:30 p.m. PST

Register

Critical Social Work & the Duty to Stay Present 

Vern Harner
As a community-embedded activist, organizer, and scholar, Vern Harner’s work aims to amplify ongoing efforts within trans and other marginalized communities. Employing both quantitative and qualitative methods, Vern’s current work focuses on intracommunity support, engagement with social services, and wellbeing. In their presentation they will reflect on their role as a nonbinary German-American scholar and share a call to action for social workers to persist in the disruption of the status quo in pursuit of shared liberation for multiply marginalized communities.

View the fourth Leading Lights presentation by Dr. Gino Aisenberg on YouTube

Sent on behalf of River Cornelius

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Orange Shirt Day is a time to recognize and remember the history and legacies of the residential school systems in the United States and Canada. In 1973, on Phyllis Webstad’s (Stswecem’c Xgat’tem First Nation) first day at St. Joseph’s Residential School, her shiny new orange shirt was stripped from her. Indian Residential Schools existed to assimilate Native American children and youth into Euro-American culture, often involving physical, sexual, emotional, and psychological abuse. The system forcibly separated children from their families and forbade them to acknowledge their Indigenous culture. During this time, children’s hair was shaved, their language went unspoken, families were broken apart, and trauma was inflicted onto Native communities.

 

On Orange Shirt Day 2021, Medicine Wheel Society is helping to raise money for Native youth at Labateyah Youth Home in Seattle, WA to honor our ancestors and care for future generations. Please consider making a contribution if you are able at this link (write “Labateyah” in the comments to ensure your contribution is directed to the youth home): https://www.unitedindians.org/donate-now/. You can learn more about Labateyah and United Indians of all tribes here: https://www.unitedindians.org/services/youth-home/.

 

Medicine Wheel Society is honored to share this design by River Cornelius (Oneida – Iroquois/Haudenosaunee). Skeletons are featured in the design to pay respect to the hundreds of Native children whose bones were discovered in unmarked graves at former residential school sites earlier this year. The artist uses night sky blankets in reference to a story they know of Indigenous children who were abused and, in order to escape the abuse, danced away and became stars in the night sky. The blankets are trimmed with the Skydome design that separates Turtle Island from the Skyworld, where all our ancestors are and from where Sky Woman fell. The skeletal ancestors care for their descendants by braiding their long hair and by passing on stories and songs to the parent, who then shares these traditions with their child. This is to show the resilience of Indigenous people and how continuing oral traditions allows ancestors to continue to exist. This represents caring for future generations and current living Indigenous children, to ensure our children are well taken care of and given the love and nurturing they need to grow strong, healthy, and happy – like the blooming sunflowers with one yet to bloom. Throughout all of this, Grandmother Moon continues to watch over all generations of her grandchildren through the passage of time with unconditional love.

 

MWS Facebook link here: https://facebook.com/MWSUW/posts/2914617105466003

 

The Office of Merit Scholarships, Fellowships & Awards and the Graduate School Office of Fellowships & Awards are hosting a series of virtual sessions for students this fall aimed at improving access to fellowships and scholarships. Please share this announcement widely with students.

Removing barriers to scholarships & fellowships

A series of virtual panels and sessions for students to improve access to funding

Fellowships and scholarships are part of our education system that often reflects and supports inequity. Many scholarship programs are attempting to address inequities, yet layers of institutional racism, classism and implicit bias persist and prevent full access to funding opportunities. This series will suggest strategies for navigating all aspects of the application process.

First-generation students, students of color, and students who identify as underrepresented within the university are particularly encouraged to attend, as are any students who would like to learn about applying for fellowships and scholarships.

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Issue No. 87                                                                       September 28, 2021

Highlighted News and Announcements
NIH Early Career Reviewer Program
The Center for Scientific Review at NIH is seeking to diversify proposal review panels in an effort to bring new viewpoints into the process. Early career scientists are invited to apply to their Early Career Reviewer program, which aims to help early career scientists become more competitive as grant applicants through participating in review panels. More information and application instructions can be found here.

New Publications/Presentations

Dr. Paula Nurius and Megan Kennedy (UW Resilience Lab) hosted a webinar series for the UW School of Medicine and Gonzaga University to address stress and mental health within the pandemic context. You can listen to an interview they did for a local radio station about this series.

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Getting Connected

Please invite your graduate students of color to join GO-MAP for our biggest community building event of the year: Getting Connected! This year, we will be hosting a two-part event. Our virtual Getting Connected Student Panel provides a space for our Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC) graduate students to learn tips and tricks for succeeding in graduate school from current students. Students can tune into the virtual panel on Tuesday, October 12, 2021 from 11:00 a.m.- 12:30 p.m. PST! (please RSVP via Eventbrite).

 

We’ve so been looking forward to the opportunity to return to in-person community with our students. Start the academic year off right with good people, good trivia, and some new updates and announcements from GO-MAP during our in person Getting Connected Reception on Tuesday, October 12, 2021 from 4:30 p.m.- 6:30 p.m. PST! Doors open at 4pm. Program begins at 4:30. RSVP is required and please note UW Covid protocols will be followed.

 

In addition, the Office of Public Lecture’s first event of the 2021-2022 academic year is also the evening of October 12^th. Nyle DiMarco’s “Living Out Loud” lecture will discuss and demonstrate the value of non-verbal communication and embracing one’s true identity. The Office of Public Lectures has graciously donated 10 tickets for us to give away during our virtual Getting Connected Student Panel and 10 additional tickets at our Getting Connected reception, so be sure to tell students to join us for the opportunity to win!

 

GO-MAP invites all new and returning BIPOC graduate students to bring other graduate students of color from their department or come solo and enjoy the company of their BIPOC graduate community. We can’t wait to see them there!

 

Autumn Quarter Events

Please see the attached Fall Quarter event flyer and links.

Autumn Quarter Events Flyer

2021-22 GO-MAP Fact Sheets 

Please see the attached 2021-22 GO-MAP Outreaching Grads (OGs) fact sheets and 2021-22 GO-MAP fact sheets.

2021_GOMAP_factsheet

Please note: Due to COVID-19 variants and changing compliance guidelines, some events and venues may be subject to change

**Note for 2022 graduating students 

YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE

Two-Year Post-MSW Advanced Clinical Social Work Fellowship

The Yale Child Study Center is pleased to offer a two-year full-time Advanced Clinical Social Work Fellowship from July 1^st through June 30^th of the respective years. The goal of this training program is to build the capacity and skill set of Clinical Social Workers to maintain the intellectual curiosity, concern for clients, and attention to detail necessary to provide excellent clinical interventions with children, youth, and families and become leaders in the field of Clinical Social Work.  Grounded in the Yale Child Study Center’s commitment to work towards creating an anti-oppressive environment, we seek to foster the knowledge, awareness and skills needed for fellows to engage in social-justice oriented clinical practice.

Social Work Fellows will participate in a variety of trainings, which include 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 tailored to each individual Social Work Fellow’s interests and career goals, which may be specific to activities at the Yale Child Study Center or may involve collaboration with the larger community. Direct practice occurs in either the Intensive Child and Adolescent Psychiatric Services In-Home Program (IICAPS) or the Outpatient Psychiatric Clinic for Children (OPC). Social Work Fellows are provided a stipend of $36,960 the first year of training and $37,128 the second year. Comprehensive health care through the Yale Health Plan is available at a nominal fee.

We are committed to recruiting applicants from diverse backgrounds who are representative of the diverse families we serve. Eligible applicants must have satisfactorily completed accredited Master’s level training in Social Work by the start of the training year (July 1^st) for which applying. Selected candidates will be interviewed virtually. Preference is given to applicants with previous direct clinical experience. Application forms and additional information can be found online: http://medicine.yale.edu/childstudy/education/advanced/acsw

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