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Enhancing your UW Experience

Feeling Overwhelmed?

  • UW Counseling Center: 206-543-1240, Schmitz 401

     

  • UW Hall Health Mental Health Clinic: 206-543-5030, Hall Health Building, 315 East Stevens Way

     

  • Crisis Clinic: 1-866-427-4747 or 206-461-3222, Open 24-hours

     

  • U-Type: UW's own anonymous and confidential student-to-student online listening service. Log on to compose an anonymous letter (which can be about anything - a frustrating relationship, problems with friends or family, something you need to get off your chest, etc). A student will answer your message from the other end, and you'll receive a response that only you can access within 48 hours. Go ahead and write us - we will hear you out!

     

  • Psychology Clinic offers psychotherapy and other psychological services on-campus.  Reduced student rates, confidential, no limit to number of sessions.  Call the intake therapist for appointment or infomation: (206) 543-6511.

GRAB A CLUE! GET AN A!

Need help with your homework? CLUE provides free tutoring for all UW undergraduates in areas such as Chemistry, Calculus, Physics, Biology, Economics, Spanish, Japanese and many others. Sunday through Thursday from 7pm to Midnight. For more information, visit http://depts.washington.edu/clue/.

Academic Support Programs

Offers comprehensive and personalized academic support for the full range of UW students

Research Job Opportunities

The UW Undergrad Research Program has links for how to find research, registration for Research Exposed! courses and workshops, getting funding and more.

SoundCitizen is Recruiting

SoundCitizen is recruiting more undergraduates for this year's activities.  We ask them to interview with the group and then volunteer for 40 hours prior to going on payroll.  Duties include all aspects of running this citizen science program, from acid washing and kit creation to sample collection and processing, presentation giving and interacting with our eight new minority high school interns.  The job requires enthusiasm, good interpersonal skills, and some interest in analytical environmental chemistry.  Prior lab experience not required. Contact Rick Keil.

RISE and RISE PROFESSIONAL INTERNSHIPS

The German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) is pleased to announce that for summer 2010 we will again offer the RISE (Research Internships in Science and Engineering) and RISE professional programs. Scholarships are awarded to American and Canadian undergraduates (RISE) and graduate students (RISE professional) in the fields of biology, chemistry, physics, earth sciences (geology), and engineering. RISE has established itself as an outstanding opportunity to combine serious research with a rewarding study-abroad experience.

RISE professional is designed for recent graduates, Master's and PhD students, and alumni of the RISE program who are matched with a well-known German company, where they gain insight into the professional applications of science and engineering and develop practical skills.

Online registration and the internship database for RISE both open on December 7th.

Internships can last from six weeks to 6 months. Similar to RISE, this program features a scholarship to cover living expenses. Online registration is currently available and students receive all necessary information by the end of October, enabling them to access the internship offers submitted by German companies.

The application deadline for both programs is January 31, 2010.

To find out about eligibility and the application process, as well as to read reports from past participants, please visit: www.daad.de/rise and www.daad.de/rise-pro. Please note students may only apply for one of the two programs and not for both at the same time.

Summer Internships

On Friday Nov. 13, 2009, the Washington NASA Space Grant Consortium will hold an information session on summer internships at NASA Centers, the Jet Propulsion Laboratory and our local industry partners. Student interns are being recruited for these internships from all fields of science,technology, engineering or math.

WHEN: 3:30-5 p.m. Friday, Nov. 13.
WHERE: Johnson Hall (JHN) 102
*Free Food*

Former interns will chat about their experiences and offer insights into the application and interview process. This year we will have a Staff Scientist from the NASA Ames Research Center and a Program Coordinator from the NASA Johnson Space Center Skype in to speak about their opportunities to you and answer any questions you may have.

We will also give an overview of local research internship opportunities that will open soon, see below:

- Summer Undergraduate Research Program (SURP): www.waspacegrant.org/u-gradsum.html

- Private Industry in Washington State: www.waspacegrant.org/pvtindinterns.html

  • Aerojet

  • Tethers Unlimited

  • Woodruff Scientific Inc.

--Additionally, we will cover upcoming graduate student fellowships available: www.waspacegrant.org/grduate.html

Internship opportunities are located throughout the United States and applicants must be US citizens.
Food will be provided. This is an excellent opportunity to network, inform yourself about paid summer research work, and leverage yourself.

Volunteer Opportunities

Ocean Inquiry ProjectOcean Inquiry Project

The Ocean Inquiry Project (OIP) is a non-profit corporation whose mission is to educate students, teachers and community members through scientific inquiry on Puget Sound. OIP began as a way for several of us to get our Oceanography 101 classes out onto Puget Sound for some hands-on experience. We first took students out during summer quarter of 1999 and have continued each quarter since then.

 

From a participant's perspective, a day with Ocean Inquiry Project is a whirlwind. This is appropriate because research ship-time is always limited and every minute counts. Most OIP volunteer educators have conducted research at sea and those experiences partly inspired us to create OIP and provide similar, though shorter, opportunities to all students. When a student connects a 10°C reading in the sea-surface temperature data with a cold splash of spray from Puget Sound, it is rewarding or instructors and students alike.

 

Interested in becoming a volunteer instructor? Contact Amy Sprenger for more info.