May 16 Falling Walls Lab

Join us this Thursday for Falling Walls Lab in Seattle at CoMotion! Our finalists will pitch their cutting-edge ideas that have a positive impact on science & society and have a chance to win a trip to the Falling Walls Science Summit in Berlin this November.

📆 Thursday, May 16 | 4-8 pm (PST)
📍 CoMotion at the University of Washington
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The event is organized by the German Center for Research and Innovation (DWIH) San Francisco, CoMotion at University of Washington, Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) -German Research Foundation (DFG) and the Consulate General of the Federal Republic of Germany San Francisco

Global Built Environment & Health Spring Seminar

April-May 2024 // Thursdays // 11:30 AM-12:20 PM

Gould Hall 440 or Zoom

UW faculty, staff and students are invited to attend a spring seminar sponsored by the UW Office of Global Affairs that will explore the impact of built environments on global health.

Facilitators:

Coco Alarcon, PhDc, UW College of Built Environments, Landscape Architecture
Hiwot Zewdie, PhDc, UW College of Arts & Sciences, Center for Studies in Demography and Ecology

New research underscores the impact of study abroad

New research out of the University of Washington indicates that students on college and university campuses who study abroad complete their degrees at higher rates than those who do not study abroad, particularly among historically underserved student populations*.

A new publication in the Journal of College Student Development by Tory L. Brundage, Doctoral Candidate in the College of Education, and Dr. Gayle Christensen, Interim Vice Provost for Global Affairs and Affiliate Assistant Professor in the College of Education, at the University of Washington, finds that study abroad is a high-impact practice for the students who are least likely to study abroad and indicates the need for continued work to strengthen access to study abroad opportunities for historically underserved students.

*In the context of this research, historically underserved student populations are students who identify as Black, Latinx, Native American and/or Pacific Islander.

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Careers in International Development & Diplomacy

Tuesday, April 2 // 3:30-5:00 PM // Husky Union Building (HUB) 332

Thinking about a career in international development and diplomacy?

Learn more about the Millennium Challenge Corporation, U.S. State Department, and the Peace Corps.

Aysha House, Vice President – Congressional & Public Affairs, Millennium Challenge Corporation
Josh Crabtree, Supervisory Special Agent, Diplomatic Security Service, U.S. Department of State
Tamorie Mayweather, UW’s current Strategic Campus Recruiter with the Peace Corps

Register Now: Spring 2024 UN Sustainable Development Goals Course

The Population Health Initiative and the Office of Global Affairs are partnering again to offer a one-credit General Studies course, “United Nations Sustainable Development Goals: Global Goals, Local Actions” (GEN ST 297A), on Tuesdays from 1:30 to 2:20 p.m. during spring quarter 2024 in Condon Hall 139.

Registration opened February 9, 2024!

This one-credit (graded as credit/no-credit) course will introduce undergraduate students to the United Nations’ 17 Sustainable Development Goals, research at the University of Washington that aligns with those goals and the role the goals play in improving local and global population health, societies and the environment. Yen-Chu Weng of the UW’s Program on the Environment is the lead facilitator of this course.

This seminar will invite experts and scholars from the UW and the Seattle region. Each lecture will include an overview of the selected Sustainable Development Goals, case studies based on speaker’s expertise and programs in the Seattle regions that are working towards realization of the Sustainable Development Goals.

Visit our website to see the course overview, details, learning goals, and facilitators.

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Peace Corps Panel Discussion

Thursday, February 29 // 3:30-4:30 PM // UW Career & Internship Center Lobby

Are you curious about what it’s like to serve in the Peace Corps?

Join us at 134 Mary Gates Hall to learn about the challenging, rewarding, and inspiring moments of service from four returned Peace Corps Volunteers who will share stories from their unique service journeys abroad.

This free event is co-hosted by the UW Peace Corps Recruiter and the UW Office of Global Affairs.

If you require reasonable accommodations, please contact pcorps@uw.edu and provide details of the reasonable accommodation(s) you are requesting.

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Did you know?

The UW is No. 3 on a list of top volunteer-producing institutions over the past two decades
Since 1961, more than 3,000 UW alumni have served abroad as Peace Corps Volunteers

Recording available of Feb. 13 Building Scyborgs. An evening on decolonization

Thank you to K. Wayne Yang, Provost of John Muir College (UC San Diego) and Professor of Ethnic Studies, for his talk, Building Scyborgs. An evening on decolonization. The event was held on Feb. 13 by UW Public Lectures.

The event was co-sponsored by The Graduate School, UW Public Lectures, and the Simpson Center and co-hosted by the UW Office of Global Affairs, School of Law, and Comparative History of Ideas.

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Building Scyborgs. An evening on decolonization

Tuesday, February 13 // 6:30-7:30 PM

Town Hall Seattle, Livestream (Hybrid)

Join us for a talk by K. Wayne Yang, Provost of Muir College and Professor of Ethnic Studies, UC San Diego.

Monsters, machines, and mortals, we are the objects of colonization, and perhaps, we can be the agents of decolonization too. Join scholar, organizer, and co-conspirator K. Wayne Yang as he shares stories about decolonizing endeavors from past, present, future and speculative somewheres. How do we bend our own complicity in colonial institutions to forward Indigenous, Black, queer, and Other futures locally and globally? Come ready to consider your own scyborg powers and plans.

The livestream of this lecture will be accompanied by an ASL interpreter and will include CART captioning.

Co-sponsored by The Graduate School, UW Public Lectures, Simpson Center.

Co-hosted by UW Office of Global Affairs, School of Law, Comparative History of Ideas.

Spring 2024 Course: Achieving the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals

Registration opens February 9, 2024!

This seminar will invite experts and scholars from the UW and the Seattle region. Each lecture will include an overview of the selected SDGs, case studies based on speaker’s expertise and programs in the Seattle regions that are working towards realization of the SDGs. Visit our website to see the course overview, details, learning goals, and facilitators.

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War in the Middle East Lecture Series

January 16 – February 27 // 5:00-6:20 PM*

A series of talks and discussions on the aftermath of Oct. 7, the war in Gaza and responses worldwide.

Moderator: Reşat Kasaba, Jackson School Professor of International Studies and Middle East expert

When: Weekly from Jan. 16 to Feb. 27, 2024 from 5:00-6:20 p.m.*
Location: Lecture locations vary by session. Click here for session descriptions

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*Note: The Jan. 22 lecture will be held from 7:00-8:30 p.m.

This lecture series is free and open to the public.

Sponsored by the Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies and the Social Sciences Division, College of Arts and Sciences at the University of Washington in partnership with the Henry M. Jackson Foundation.

Questions? Email jsiscom@uw.edu