Category: Opportunity

Space available in 2 credit, summer A-term JSIS 535: Society, Technology, and the Future, taught by James Bernard. This course explores the intersection of policy, technology and society. Technology is rapidly changing the way that humans interact with one another, markets are formed, and information is stored, shared and utilized. While technology has held and does hold great promise for being a force for both economic and social change, it also has the potential to be used in ways that threaten civil liberties, national security and data sovereignty. Private sector and civil society actors, government and military leaders, and regulators must work together to understand how new and emerging technologies will drive change across a wide range of sectors, and they must develop policies to ensure that technology is used to help improve and enrich the lives of those across the socioeconomic spectrum.

CALL FOR UW UNDERGRAD PAPERS & PROJECTS

• What? The UW Library Research Award for Undergraduates recognizes outstanding research projects in all formats created by undergraduate students.
• Why? Winners receive $1,000 and University-wide recognition for their outstanding accomplishment.  Additional awards of $250 are available for projects aligned with the theme of population health
• When? Deadline to submit is Monday, May 7, 2018, by 5:00pm PDT.
• Where and How? Submission criteria and guidelines are available online.

Click the link below to view the opportunity for a PAID EDUCATIONAL EXPERIENCE: Environmental Educators Needed!

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King County Metro Transit is currently taking employment applications from interested full-time or part-time undergraduate or graduate college students and qualified veterans, for upcoming student internships and Vets 4 HIRE veteran fellowships.  The time period of the internships will vary (I.e. June, 2018 to June, 2019). Some opportunities may be extended throughout the school year.

Who May Apply:

These internships/fellowships are open ONLY to:

• Full-time or part-time students currently enrolled in an undergraduate or graduate college program (depending on the internship/fellowship). Students must be full-time or part-time students during the entire internship, with the exception of the summer. Employment as an intern during the summer requires that the student be registered as a student for the fall. AND/OR
• U.S Military Veterans.  Those who left the military within the last five years and reside within King County will be given preference.

 

Attached PDF – Student Internship and Veteran Fellowships

ESRM 321: sustainable business course for non business majors (no prerequisites, hybrid online course, NW and I&S)?

 

ESRM 321, Finance & Accounting From a Sustainability Perspective, is a course that:

• Gives NW and I&S and 5 credits
• Has no prerequisites
• Is a hybrid online course, meaning there are some scheduled live online and in person events (mandatory in person exam on 8.16, 4:40-6:50 pm; six online quizzes starting at 6 pm; five live online Sustainability Performance Assessment (SPA) Mentoring Conferences, where the professor mentors students in doing corporate sustainability performance research.

Overview: Finance and Accounting. In ESRM 321, we explore two of the four primary business dimensions: finance and accounting. Finance refers to the flows and uses of money among individuals, businesses, non-profit organizations, and governments and associated processes, institutions, and markets. Accounting involves recording, classifying, summarizing, and interpreting business transactions to provide management and stakeholders with information about a company’s performance, liquidity, growth, value, etc. Sustainability refers to integrating environmental, social, and financial elements in order to meet the needs of people today without compromising Earth’s capacity to provide for future generations. Integrating these three is called the triple bottom line sustainability. We will explore the meaning and importance of sustainable business practices.

 

Course Goals. ESRM 321 has two goals, which are to provide a context for: 1) learning business concepts AND 2) hands on experience assessing corporate sustainability performance. The business learning objectives below in bold are achieved through listening to online recorded business lectures and reading the Nickels textbook while the sustainability learning objectives underlined below are achieved through assessing GRI indicators using sustainability report information.

 

Learning Objectives (at the end of this course, students should be able to do the following).

• –  Explain finance, accounting, corporate social responsibility, and sustainability concepts
• –  Summarize what money is, counterfeiting deterrence, and financial institutions
• –  Explain the functions of the U.S. Federal Reserve System and its monetary policy tools
• –  Describe stock markets, investing strategies, and socially responsible investing
• –  Analyze financial statements (e.g., balance sheets, income statements)
• –  Define corporate financial management
• –  Describe Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) framework for sustainability reporting
• –  Assess GRI economic and environment indicators to measure actual sustainability performance
• –  Analyze real world sustainability performance using data in corporate sustainability reports
• –  Summarize and interpret sustainability performance data

Interested in $5000 research, leadership, or innovation scholarships?

 

The Mary Gates Endowment for Student Scholarship Info Session is this FRIDAY, APRIL 27 at 1:30pm-2:30pm at MGH 171. 

Thursday, May 3, 2018 from 5:30 – 8:30 pm 

“Finding Our Way”
Film Screening & Reception with Prof. Leonie Sandercock

Gould Hall room 322

A film by Giovanni Attili and Leonie Sandercock telling a story about Canadian colonialism from the perspective of Natives and non-Natives for land and sovereignty, for healing and revitalization. (More info & registration)

Friday, May 4, 2018 from 9am – 4:30pm 
Urban Growth Challenges and Social Justice: Learning from the Past and Looking Towards the Future

2018 Annual Symposium, Interdisciplinary PhD Program in Urban Design & Planning 
Samuel E. Kelly Ethnic Cultural Center, Native Chicano Suite, ECC 206/208 C/N

Keynote address by Professor Leonie Sandercock followed by three panels exploring how urban practice, research, and pedagogy can deal with issues around urban growth and social justice. (Agenda and more info & registration)

Lunch is provided.

This class introduces students to the concept of public space, its role in the city’s social and political relations, and the tools for intervening in public spaces. How are public spaces democratic? How do people present themselves, view others, and interact in these spaces? What are the rules of behavior, and how are they enforced? Who belongs there? Is a mall or a coffee shop a public space? Does it matter if everyone is looking down at their screens? How can physical design or programmed activities change the character of public spaces? This class will explore these issues in two ways. First, we will use foundational readings and exemplary case studies as a basis for class discussions on how public spaces have been theorized, created, and studied. Second, we will use Seattle spaces as our own case studies for students to practice looking at, inhabiting, and intervening in public space for their own creative projects.

Applications are now being accepted for Grand Challenge Impact Lab (GCIL): India Study Abroad

In Winter Quarter 2019, UW Study Abroad will be offering “Grand Challenge Impact Lab (GCIL): India” as a 15-credit course.

• Study global GRAND CHALLENGES
• Collaborate on INTERDISCIPLINARY TEAMS
• Work hands-on to learn IMPACT INNOVATION
• Design impact VENTURE SOLUTIONS
• Pitch your idea for SEED FUNDING

 

Grand Challenges are the big problems facing humanity – things like food security, clean water, and climate change. The Grand Challenge Impact Lab (GCIL): India is a new UW study abroad experience that empowers students to learn about Grand Challenges and propose and test solutions to them. The program offers an active, hands-on learning laboratory and is open to graduate and undergraduate junior and senior students from any department.

 

Attend an information session to learn more: 

• Thursday, April 26 at 3:30-4:30pm, in More Hall 110
• Tuesday, May 1 at 3:30-4:30pm, in Raitt Hall 229
• Friday, May 4 at 12:30-1:30pm, in More Hall 110
• Monday, May 7 at 12-1pm, in Anderson Hall 22

 

Apply now!  Application Deadline is May 15.

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For more information about GCIL India, visit www.courses.washington.edu/gcil/.

The Carlson Leadership & Public Service Center is pleased to invite students to apply for the 2018 Jackson Munro Public Service Fellowship. Applications are due on May 7, 2018 @ 11:59 pm and may be emailed directly to rvaughn@uw.edu.

Jackson Munro Public Service Fellowship

The Jackson Munro Public Service Fellowship encourages a life-long commitment to public service by providing outstanding undergraduates with the opportunity to deepen their commitment to service and leadership in the context of community.

Jackson Munro Public Service Fellows are selected based on the strength of a public service project proposed in collaboration with a public sector (non-profit or governmental) organization.

Selection of Jackson Munro Public Service Fellows

Jackson Munro Public Service Fellows serve in the summer, building on experiences and partnerships they have forged in the previous academic year.  Students are funded to engage in a public service project between June 18-August 17, 2018. 

Jackson Munro Public Service Fellows are selected for a summer intensive experience based on three primary factors:

• An established partnership with a non-profit or public sector organization
• A collaboratively thought out plan for a summer intensive project that will benefit the partnering organization while increasing student skills and learning
• An articulation of how the work of the Fellow will contribute to their development as a public servant and leader

Made possible through the support of the Henry M. Jackson Foundation, the Fellowship is named for late Senator Henry M. “Scoop” Jackson and S. Sterling Munro, Jr., the former top aide to Senator Jackson and Administrator of the Bonneville Power Administration.

Selection Timeline

• Applications for the Jackson Munro Public Service Fellowship are due on Monday, May 7 @ 11:59 pm
• Interviews for the Fellowship will be held no later than May 30
• Projects should occur between June 18-August 17, 2018.