Category: Opportunity

The Living Room Project
Friday, September 15 from 11:00 AM to 5:00 PM
Refreshments included

As the place where life happens, the living room is a safe space where social functions play out that are central to the performance of human identity. In a city where space is at a premium, the living room is disappearing for not-housed and housed alike. Those living outside often find themselves without a place to exist during waking hours, with emergency shelter necessarily focusing on overnight accommodations. As such, there are precious few moments for social intimacy in a secure space where they are explicitly welcome. Those living inside also increasingly lack this kind of space, with market forces replacing private living rooms with for-rent amenity spaces and external spaces of consumption. This crisis of the Living Room offers a prompt for the questions this project explores.

With support from the City of Seattle Office of Arts and Culture and 4Culture, and in partnership with Facing Homelessness, The Living Room Project will stage a large outdoor living room installation in an alley that shares frontage with a number of non-profit organizations. The Living Room will be a day long place of creative engagement, casual interaction, food, and quite simply being.

If you are interested in engaging with people living inside and outside, please see this as an opportunity to connect with someone in the space of a public living room. We look forward to having you over!

Website: tinyurl.com/living-room-project
Location: 1415 NE 43rd Street, in the alley between the church and the post office

The City of Lynnwood is looking for a planning intern for the 2017-18 school year. The position is open to all CBE students but preferably someone who is in either the MUP or CEP programs. If you have any questions please contact Todd Hall at THall@lynnwoodwa.gov.

Senior Municipal Land Planner #65300
Location : Bellevue
Job # : 65300

At Puget Sound Energy (PSE) we have a long tradition of service, and an exciting and innovative future ahead! Consider PSE for the next step in your career.

To view the full job description and apply for the position, click here.

Environmental Innovation Practicum (Seminar) offered Autumn 2017. The seminar helps prepare student teams interested in participating in the Alaska Airlines Environmental Innovation Challenge. The Challenge offers interdisciplinary student teams the opportunity to invent and develop solutions to pressing environmental problems with the potential to eventually take these solutions to the marketplace.

This year the Challenge awarded more than $35,000 in prize money and provided generous funding for the prototyping of ideas in development. Students from the CBE have not been well represented in past Challenges despite the creativity and innovation that abounds here. This is your opportunity to change this.

More information on the EIC can be found here.

he Gilman Scholarship for study abroad is now accepting applications for winter and spring programs and the early application period for summer. The Gilman Scholarship awards up to $5,000 to undergraduate students with high financial need to participate in study abroad. Eligible students must be receiving a Pell Grant and enroll in a program at least three weeks in length through UW Study Abroad. Students do not need to be accepted to a study abroad program at the time of application, but if selected ,they do have to be accepted into a study abroad program before Gilman will disburse the award.

Application deadline is October 3rd.

Learn more here!

UW Graduate School Fair
October 26, 2017 | Thursday
11:00 am – 3:00 pm
University of Washington
wǝɫǝbʔaltxʷ – Intellectual House

Applications for Winter Quarter are due September 15th!

GEN ST 391 I (1 cred) | SLN: 15698
Research Exposed!: Approaches to Inquiry
Enroll in Research Exposed! for Autumn Quarter (Wednesdays, 12:30-1:20 PM)

Research Exposed! (GEN ST 391 I) is an opportunity to learn about current, exciting research in a wide variety of disciplines, including the process of discovery, how faculty come up with an idea for research, how inquiry is structured in the different disciplines, and how students can become involved in research at UW.

This course may be repeated for credit (1 credit/quarter-3 quarters max); speakers and topics will vary.

Visit the UW Time Schedule entry to register for the course.

GENERAL STUDIES 391 K (2 cred) | SLN: 15700
Undergraduate Research Intensive for Community College Transfer Students
1-Day Workshop (September 21) + weekly class sessions (Fridays, 12:30-1:50 PM)

The Undergraduate Research Intensive is designed for incoming transfer students and includes an initial 1-day pre-autumn quarter workshop, held September 21 on the UW Seattle campus, followed by weekly sessions during the quarter designed to help transfer students plan and prepare for undergraduate research positions.The course will demystify the research process at UW and provide instruction in research-related skills and resources. All students receive one-on-one advising with Undergraduate Research Program staff and interact with peer researchers.

To request an add code to register for the course, email urp@uw.edu and include the following:

Your full name:
Transfer institution:
UW student number:
Major, intended major, or area(s) of interest

For questions, please contact urp@uw.edu.

New bike sharing systems have launched in Seattle, providing a new way to commute to UW! These new, privately operated services differ from past systems – with these services you can park at any public bike rack on campus!

Bikeshare Guidelines on Campus:

Always park the bikes on a bike rack when on campus.

Yield to pedestrians and follow the rules of the road.

Bring your own helmet with you, and wear it when you ride.

(Don’t have one? Recycled Cycles and Bike Works offer discounts when you show your Husky Card.)

Spin (orange bikes) and LimeBike (green bikes) both offer 50% off rides when you sign up using your @uw.edu email address in the app!

Bikeshare may provide great new mobility options for you:

Commute between campus and Seattle neighborhoods if you don’t have a bike, or if you decide that it’s just such a nice evening you don’t want to take the bus home after all.

Connect quickly to cross-campus destinations, such as the Link light rail station, by taking a bikeshare bike on the Burke-Gilman Trail.

Breathe easy after you lock up the bike and end your trip, free from concern about theft and vandalism.

How to use “dock-less” bikeshare:

Download the app for each service (see above) and take advantage of special UW pricing by signing up using your “@uw.edu” email address.

Find an available bike in person or locate one on the live map in each app.

Unlock the bike using your phone and the app.

Put on your helmet (the bikes don’t come with one, so remember to bring yours with you).

Ride the bike to your destination. Remember to follow the rules of the road and yield to pedestrians.

Park at any bike rack on campus. Off campus, your parking options are a little more broad, but when you’re at the UW please help everyone out by placing the bike only on a rack and using its built-in wheel lock.

These dock-less bikeshare systems are operating in Seattle on a pilot basis, and we are interested in your thoughts and experiences with the systems. If you have problems using or signing up for these services, contact the companies directly. If you have questions or feedback about using the bikes on campus, please contact Transportation Services at ucommute@uw.edu.

Thanks and happy riding!