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Tuesday, October 09, 2012

Sheila Cameron, Internship Coordinator from Alaska Fish and Game will be hosting an information table in Anderson 116 from 9-11am on Wednesday, October 10th, 2012. If you cannot make it, please contact Sheila Cameron directly at: sheila.cameron@alaska.gov.
 

Scholars Studio: Citizen Research @ the Commons

Tuesday, October 09, 2012

Are you working on a project, paper or thesis that deals with the term “citizen”? Looking for opportunities to share your research and meet scholars outside your discipline? Want feedback on your presentation style? Submit a proposal for Scholars’ Studio: “Citizen” Research @the Commons, which will be held ** Monday, November 5th from 3:30-5:30** on the ground floor of Allen Library South.

Scholars’ Studio will feature 10 short presentations (5 minutes each) given by graduate students doing research on topics related to the theme "citizen". We're looking for grad students working in a range of disciplines: environmental sciences, political science, business, education, history, urban planning, humanities, technology, etc. Sample topic areas could include:

* Citizen science
* Informed citizenry
* Citizens and health
* Performing citizenship
* Citizen rights
* Citizen journalism
* Historical perspectives on citizenship
* Digital citizen identity
* Citizenship and migration

This will be a fun, informal event that will allow grad students to share their research across disciplines, make connections, build professional development skills and get presentation feedback. This event is open to all UW students, faculty and staff.

Learn more and submit a short proposal for a 5-minute TED-style lightning talk at: http://commons.lib.washington.edu/scholarsstudio

WiSE Program: SAVE THE DATE - Autumn Lecture Series REGISTER TODAY

Tuesday, October 09, 2012

Engage and Explore the Opportunities

Time: 6:30 – 8:00pm
Location: Kane Hall 120 Doors open @ 6:00
Lectures are FREE but registration is required. On-line Registration is NOW open at https://catalyst.uw.edu/webq/survey/wisecat/179064

November 7th, 2012 Wednesday

Presenter: Coleen Carrigan, Doctoral Candidate, Anthropology
Research Associate, UW ADVANCE Center for Institutional Change

TITLE: Gender @ Work in a Dot Com World
Computer technology plays a critical role in US society and gives computer scientists and engineers unparalleled power and influence. Yet, since the mid-1980’s, women’s participation in computing began declining drastically, a trend that continues today. Anthropology can help us understand how US cultural values govern gender roles and influence women’s interest and inclusion in computing. Hear how women in computing negotiate and resist gender norms and what cultural innovations are needed to create a diverse group of computer scientists and engineers who address the most pressing challenges of our society. Excerpts from the video Miss Representation will be viewed and discussed.

November 14th, 2012 Wednesday

Presenter: Anna Karlin, Professor, Computer Science & Engineering (CSE), UW Paul G. Allen Center for CSE

TITLE: A Brave New World: The Scientific, Economic and Social Impact of Computer Science
Computer science and computing are transforming all aspects of the modern world. In this lecture, we will take a short tour of the intellectual underpinnings, societal implications, and grand challenges in computer science and related fields for (And nowadays, everything is a related field...)

November 28th, 2012 Wednesday

Magdalena Balazinska, Assistant Professor, Computer Science & Engineering (CSE), UW Paul G. Allen Center for CSE

TITLE: Big Data Management Promises and Challenges
Lecture/Abstract Description: Our society is generating data at an unprecedented scale and rate. The ability to manage this "Big Data" holds the promise to deliver novel services and accelerate scientific discovery. We will discuss some of the opportunities raised by Big Data and also some of the challenges associated with managing it, including exciting recent research from the computer science database group at the University of Washington.



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College of the Environment Deans Award for Undergraduate Innovation

Friday, October 05, 2012

See: http://coenv.washington.edu/students_new/undergraduate_innovation.shtml


Description/Goals

Funds are competitively awarded to support College of the Environment (CoEnv) undergraduates engaged in research, as well as community-based projects or experiential learning, combining academic content and skill set learning with innovative applications to particular issues or problems within an environmental context. It is essential that the student play a central role in generating the idea and in designing and delivering the project. Most CoEnv students complete a culminating senior capstone project or engage in undergraduate research for at least one quarter. These funds are designed to support students not just in completing the level of projects that they might already be required to complete for their degree programs, but also in taking their projects to a higher level, significantly adding to the depth, quality, creativity, and impact of their work.

For 2012-2013, the College will offer 6 awards to a maximum of $2,500 each.
 

Eligibility Requirements

1. Applicants must be matriculated UW undergraduate students registered during the award period (12 credits minimum during Autumn, Winter, or Spring quarters; 2 credits minimum during Summer quarter).
2. Applicants must be pursuing a bachelor’s degree with the College of the Environment at the UW Seattle, and must maintain satisfactory academic progress for the duration of the project, as defined by your academic department.
3. Candidates do not need to be U.S. citizens.
4. Applicants must be engaged in the academic project and with the faculty mentor during the quarters for which they are funded.
5. Awardees who receive funds to assist with paying for standard academic expenses such as tuition and fees and are also receiving need-based financial aid may not be eligible to receive the full amount of this award. The CoEnv will use information provided by the Office of Student Financial Aid/FAFSA to determine award amounts. Recipients of need-based aid cannot receive funds from any source in excess of their calculated financial need. Applicants should consult a counselor in the Office of Student Financial Aid to determine the potential impact of a new award on the existing aid package.

To Apply

Applicants must complete the CoEnv Dean’s Award for Undergraduate Innovation application no later than October 31, 2012.
 

Application Materials:

• Project Proposal (Includes the following):
• Student name
• Student ID
• Project Title
• Proposed project quarters for funding
• Faculty Mentor Name
• Requested Award Quarter(s)
• Project Summary (300 words max) – describe what you will do, the issues that your project will address, and relevant disciplinary background.
• Project Question(s) (150 words max) – what key research question or questions will you be addressing with your project?
• Methods used to address project question(s) (350 word max) – describe what methods, tools, etc. you will use to address your project question.
• Project Deliverables (150 words max) – describe what you will produce at the culmination of your project (e.g., written academic paper, presentation, etc.).
• Budget amount requested
• Budget justification (150 words max) – provide a justification for the budget requested. Describe the costs associated with your project and a justification for seeking funds for these costs. If you are requesting funds to assist you with paying for standard academic expenses such as tuition, fees, etc., explain how and in what ways the funding will alleviate your need to work or secure other funds to pay for academic expenses and how exactly this will advance your project goals.
• Detailed Budget (spreadsheet format) – list specific costs and exact amounts for expenses associated with travel, conferences, supplies, tools, etc.
• So what? (200 word max) – What are the implications/impacts of your project within a scholarly / academic context? How will this project help you refine and advance your career goals?
• Unofficial transcripts from UW (separate pages)
   

Faculty Mentor Endorsement
Faculty member(s) who will serve as mentors for funded projects must complete the Faculty Member Endorsement: CoEnv Dean’s Award for Undergraduate Innovation no later than October 31, 2012.
 

Faculty Member Endorsements must include the following:
 

• Faculty Mentor Name
• Faculty Mentor Department
• Name of student
• Proposed project quarters for funding
• Statement that the faculty member agrees to be serve as mentor
• Approval of proposed project budget
• Description of expected specific research deliverable (i.e., paper, presentation, etc.) (150 words max)
• Faculty Mentor’s assessment of her/his responsibilities in project outcome versus the student’s responsibilities (200 word max)
• Assessment of student’s ability to conduct the proposed work, including specific examples of previous scholarly and/or applied work (200 word max)
   

Selection Criteria
The CoEnv Scholarship and Funding Committee (comprised of faculty and staff who are advisory to the Associate Dean, Academic Affairs and Diversity) will review your application, examining your project proposal for evidence of the clarity of your goals, the role you play in the project, and the role the funds will make on success of the project.

The Committee will consider the following:
 

• Your overall academic record.
• The likelihood of project success.
• Project innovation and creativity.
• Clarity of proposed budget.
• Your investment in the project - evidence that the project concept and goals originate from you (with appropriate guidance and mentoring from faculty) and are connected to your academic and career goals.
   

The Committee will submit recommendations, together with a brief explanation, to the Associate Dean, Academic Affairs and Diversity, who will make the final funding decisions.

Other Awardee Expectations

• You will be asked to provide written permission for the CoEnv to use your image and/or written and graphic description of your project in CoEnv print and online publications.
• You may be asked to participate in a video interview describing your project.
• You may be asked to present your project deliverable at CoEnv events.
• You may be asked to attend CoEnv Scholarship recognition events.
• You are required to apply to present your work at the annual UW Undergraduate Research Symposium in May. A call to submit proposals for the Symposium is announced during winter quarter.

Questions? Contact coenvaad@uw.edu

College of the Environment Student Meeting Fund

Friday, October 05, 2012

Autumn Quarter Deadline: October 31, 2012
Student Meeting Fund
The College of the Environment (CoEnv) supports undergraduate, Masters, and PhD students in furthering their careers, and in particular in connecting students to networking opportunities afforded by the presentation of their original work in meeting venues. CoEnv supports two types of student attendance at meetings:
· Student-Organized Meetings (maximum of $1,500 or 20% of total expenditures, whichever is smaller; one per organization annually; maximum of 4 awards given out annually)
· Individual Travel to Meetings (maximums of $300 for North American travel and $500 for all other international travel; one per student per degree career;
maximum of 10 awards given out annually)

Student-Organized Meetings

CoEnv supports a range of student organizations that organize and host meetings attended by CoEnv students where central goals of the meeting include linking science (natural and/or social) to policy or real world application; and interdisciplinary attendance realized within CoEnv as attendance and presentation by students from multiple units within the College. CoEnv will competitively award grants to student organizations for partial funding of interdisciplinary, student-run meetings at which CoEnv students are presenting original (including co-authored work where the student is first author) work.
Applications for CoEnv funding must include a two page proposal listing:
Title of the requesting organization, with a list of student officers and highlighting any
· CoEnv students.
· An explanation of the event, including how the meeting furthers the mission of the
· College and the careers of attending students (350 words, max).
· Planned location and dates.
· Intended audience, including total estimated attendance, and specific attendance by students from CoEnv units.
· Total estimated budget, broken down into major budget categories.
· Total amount requested from CoEnv, and amount(s) received/requested/anticipated from all other sources (please include any proposed registration fees as one source).
Following the meeting, a brief report documenting total expenditures, total attendance, a list of all CoEnv students attending, and a list of any CoEnv student winning presentation awards, must be submitted. Organizations failing to submit reports will
not be funded in the future.

CoEnv will not provide support for: alcohol; non-student (including keynote or plenary speaker) attendance; conference-organizing contractors; within-unit annual student symposia.

Individual Student Travel to Meetings

CoEnv realizes that presentation of original work at national or international meetings hosted by scientific/academic societies can truly accelerate the career of a student. Because grant and contract funding, unit-based funding sources, and/or individual resources are occasionally not enough to cover travel expenses, the CoEnv will competitively award travel grants to individual students on a one-time basis who are giving oral presentations of their original work (including co-authored work where the student is first author).
Applications for CoEnv funding must include a one page proposal listing:
1. meeting title, location, and organizing institution
2. presentation title
3. an explanation of how attendance will advance your career (200 words, max)
4. total estimated budget, broken down into major budget categories
5. total amount requested from CoEnv, and amount(s) received/requested/anticipated from all other sources
In addition, a letter of support from the advisor is required, including a statement explaining why grant/contract support is not available to cover all expenses.
Within one month of the meeting, you must submit a brief synopsis (250 words max) documenting how meeting attendance advanced your career, listing any awards/honorable mentions you received, and a final budget documentation. Failure to submit a timely report will result in further student travel awards to current/future members of your laboratory being suspended.
CoEnv will not provide support for:
· alcohol
· accommodation or food above per diem or actual expenses, whichever is less
· stipend or salary
· attendance to local chapter meetings of national/international organizations
· attendance to student-organized meetings


Submission Process

Meeting grants, whether individual or from a student organization, can be submitted via e-mail to coenvaad@uw.edu on a quarterly basis, by the quarterly deadline.
Submissions should be planned such that travel can be accomplished within 6 months of the date of the award, otherwise the award may be retracted. Submissions outside of these dates will not be considered.

Autumn Quarter 2012 Deadline: October 31, 2012

Review Process
All complete applications will be reviewed by the College of the Environment Student Scholarship and Funding Committee, comprised of faculty and staff who are advisory to the Associate Dean, Academic Affairs and Diversity. The Committee will submit recommendations, together with a brief explanation, to the Associate Dean, Academic Affairs and Diversity, who will make the final funding decisions. Because of the continuing nature of this funding cycle, the Associate Dean reserves the right to sub- select from highly ranked applications in any single quarter, to balance out awards annually.
*Please contact Michelle Hall, Director of Student and Academic Services, coenvaad@uw.edu with questions about the Student Meeting Fund.

Seattle Aquarium Discover Science Presenter Invite

Friday, October 05, 2012

Showcase your marine and ocean science with our community, and fulfill your public outreach/engagement requirement at the same time. Particpate in this year's Discover Science Weekend at the Aquarium, Saturday, November 10–Monday, November 12.

We will provide you with space, tables, a break room and our family audience. You will help provide the information, fun and hands-on activity highlighting the cool science that you do! Setup will begin at 9am. Prior to November 10 we’ll host an optional prep session to familiarize you with the Aquarium space and audience, to provide guidance on your activity, and answer any questions.

For more information and to reserve space, contact Becky Bingham at b.bingham@seattleaquarium.org.

Friday Harbor Research Apprenticeship on Ocean Acidification II

Friday, October 05, 2012

OCN492
Friday Harbor Research Apprenticeship on Ocean Acidification
Spring Quarter 2013 (15 units)
Lead Instructor: James Murray (UW, Ocean)
Additional Instructors: Evelyn Lessard (UW, Ocean), Bob Morris (UW, Ocean),
Robin Kodner (WWU, UW, Ocean)

Pelagic mesocosms have a long history of application to a wide range of problems in marine and freshwater science. Recently mesocosm experiments to study the effect of elevated CO2 (ocean acidification) on biological community structure and interactions have been conducted at Bergen, Norway and Pohang, South Korea. These have been excellent examples interdisciplinary research.

We now have a new mesocosm experimental facility at the UW Friday Harbor Labs. The facility consists of nine mesocosm bags, each holding about 3,500 liters of coarsely filtered local seawater. Experimental conditions are done in triplicate. Initial CO2 levels are adjusted to approximate a control (present values) and elevated values as are expected for the future. Carbonate system parameters (DIC, alkalinity and pH), oxygen, nutrients, chlorophyll and additional chemical and biological parameters are followed with time. Two preliminary experiments were conducted in June 2011 and April 2012. The April 2012 experiment was conducted as part of a mini-research apprenticeship. It was judged a success. Difficulties that arose during the 2011 experiment were solved and an 18-day time series was conducted. The results have resulted in an abstract for the national AGU meeting (December 2012) and a paper for a major journal is in preparation. All of the apprenticeship students are co-authors.
 

We are now planning to conduct a major experiment in April 2013 as part of a full-research apprenticeship in Spring Quarter 2013. This experiment will include international collaborators from Bergen, Norway (Jorun Egge) and Pohang, South Korea (Kitack Lee). Students will have their own research projects supervised by James Murray (chemistry), Evelyn Lessard (zooplankton), Bob Morris (bacteria) and Robin Kodner (phytoplankton). Again we anticipate an 18-20 day experiment. Students will be involved in the daily sampling and their own specific measurements and analyses. Oral presentations and papers (methods, results and discussion) will be due for a FHL research symposium at the end of May. In addition there will be class time spend on lectures and literature discussions of the chemical and biological basics and results of previous mesocosm experiments, including the previous experiment at FHL in April 2012. There will be field trips to the impacted shellfish industry. Guest lectures will provide societal relevance.
 

This class will be an excellent opportunity to participate in interdisciplinary basic research with the societal goal of understanding the impacts of ocean acidification on the pelagic biological community of the Salish Sea. It will be an intense experience. Much like going on a research cruise in the ocean, but without the rocking boat. You will also get the experience of living at the Friday Harbor Labs. It's a lot like going to summer camp!
 

For more information contact: Jim Murray, 413 OSB, 543-4730

Engineers Without Borders

Friday, October 05, 2012

The University of Washington Chapter of Engineers Without Borders is excited to announce our first general meeting of the 2012-2013 academic year! We have a brand new program in Guatemala that we are just starting this year and we need new student members to help!

We are especially hoping students interested in fish science/biology and aquaculture will help us this year! You don't have to be an engineer to join!!

This meeting is for everyone! Young, old, big, small, purple, gold, and every color in between.We'll be discussing who we are and our plans for the upcoming year as well as offering ways for you to get involved!

Come and visit us!

Graduate and undergraduate students welcome.

Engineers Without Borders Fall Kickoff General Meeting
What: Come learn about our chapter and ways you can get involved
Who: You!
When: Monday (10/8) @ 5 PM
Where: Gowen 201

Webinar info session on NSF GRFP Fellowship Opportunity

Friday, October 05, 2012

Monday, October 1, 2012, 11:30-12:30, Research Commons in Allen Library

NSF’s GRFP is one of the premier opportunities to fund your graduate study. It provides 3 years of funding that you can use in a 5 year time frame. This includes a $30,000 annual stipend and full cost of tuition/fees covered. For UW graduate students, GAIP health insurance is also covered.

The information session will cover the application process, strategies for successful applications and more details regarding how the fellowship operates. Application deadlines range from November 13-19, 2012. Students should start their applications now.

Full information on the NSF GRFP, including a link to the official program solicitation, is here: http://www.nsfgrfp.org/

Basic eligibility criteria:

*research in an eligible NSF research area (includes several of the social sciences)
*US citizens or permanent residents by the application deadline
*students in their first year of graduate study or at the beginning of their second year of graduate study (with some limitations)
*students who have not earned a previous graduate degree
*graduating senior undergraduates who plan to apply to and begin graduate student by next fall

Full eligibility information is detailed in the program solicitation: http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2012/nsf12599/nsf12599.htm

If you can’t attend a session but are interested in applying and want further information, do not hesitate to contact us.

Best regards,

Marilyn Gray
Assistant Director

Fellowships & Awards
The Graduate School
206-543-7152