Nominate your favorite professor for a UW teaching award!

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Dear Members of the University Community,

The Center for Teaching and Learning and Undergraduate Academic Affairs
invites nominations for the 2012 Distinguished Teaching Awards, Excellence
in Teaching Awards, and the S. Sterling Munro Public Service Teaching Award.


Faculty, staff, students and alumni are invited to write.  Nominations of
past candidates are welcome.  Self-nominations are not accepted.  Previous
recipients are ineligible.

Distinguished Teaching Award – is given once during the individual’s
lifetime, honors several instructors based on a number of criteria, limited
to the extensive knowledge and mastery of the subject matter, ability to
inspire, guide and mentor students through independent and creative
thinking, and serves as a mentor, collaborator and consultant to other
faculty and teaching assistants by helping to enrich the scholarship of
teaching and learning.

Excellence in Teaching Award – is given to two graduate teaching assistants
for their demonstration of extraordinary ability in the teaching and
learning process as a gradaute teaching assistant.

S. Sterling Munro Public Service Teaching Award – thanks to generous gift
from the Henry M. Jackson Foundation, is given annually to a faculty member who has demonstrated exemplary leadership in community-based instruction, including public service internships and community partnership projects. Faculty within the University of Washington are eligible to receive this award.

Nominations are accepted via web only.  To begin the nomination process, we ask that you submit your online form at http://uw.edu/uaa/teachingacademy/awards.html.  The deadline for all submissions is Monday, December 12, 2011, 5pm.

For questions regarding the awards process, please email
dta@u.washington.edu.

Sincerely,

Ed Taylor
Vice Provost and Dean
Undergraduate Academic Affairs

[fellowship] – Rangel International Affairs Fellowship Info Sessions

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Rangel International Affairs Fellowship Info Sessions
Thursday, November 17th
2:00pm-3:00pm
Thomson Hall 317

Are you an undergraduate student or recent grad and interested in a career in diplomacy? If so, come meet the Director of the U.S. Department of State’s prestigious Rangel Program, Ms. Patricia Scroggs. She’ll be discussing the Rangel Program’s exciting fellowships at two info sessions on Thursday November 17th. Both info sessions will cover the same information, so come to whichever one fits your schedule!
The Rangel Graduate Fellowship Program provides benefits of up to $90,000 over two years toward a two-year master’s degree, arranges internships on Capitol Hill and U.S. embassies, and provides professional development and support activities for those who want to become Foreign Service Officers in the U.S. Department of State. Fellows may use the fellowship to attend any good two-year master’s program in a U.S. institution to study an area of relevance to the Foreign Service, including international relations, public policy, public administration, languages, or business administration. At the end of the two-year fellowship, Fellows enter the Foreign Service of the U.S. Department of State. Applicants must be college seniors or graduates looking to start graduate school in the fall of the year they apply, have GPAs of at least 3.2 and be U.S. citizens.

[course] Environmental Alternative Spring Break Program

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There’s still a little time left to apply for Pipeline Project’s 2012 Environmental Alternative Spring Break (EASB) program!

The Pipeline Project is sending two teams of five students to Quileute Tribal School, La Push & Brewster Elementary School, Brewster during UW’s spring break. UW students will facilitate environmental science lessons with elementary and middle school students and learn about the local ecology and environmental issues of the region.

  • EDUC 401 preparation seminar during winter quarter (Thu 4:30-5:50 pm)
  • Tutor during winter quarter for 2 – 2.5 hours/week
  • Then work on site during Spring Break! (March 18th – March 23rd)  

Interested? Apply now! Applications due 5 pm on 11/14/11. Please visit our website for application instructions and materials:

http://exp.washington.edu/pipeline/asb-12envt.html

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[course] Education For Sustainability

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Inner Pipeline Seminar for Winter 2012

  

What is environmental education all about? How do educators teach young people about the earth’s ecosystems and foster an ethic of environmental stewardship? This seminar will examine the past and current state of K-12 environmental education in the U.S. and Washington State. We will explore various philosophies, models and approaches to K-12 environmental education.

Register today!

EDUC 401K
SLN: 13038
Facilitator: Francesca Lo
Dates: Wednesdays; 1/11, 1/18, 1/25, 2/1, 2/8, 2/15, 2/22, 2/29
Time: 12:30-1:20 pm
Location: Mary Gates Hall, room 248

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We have several double majors in Environmental Studies and CEP. Interested in finding out what is similar/different between CEP and PoE? Check out the open house. Can’t make it? Feel free to ask Joe Kobayashi (CEP class of ‘00).

[Course]: CEE 250: Environmental Pollution: Energy and Materials Balance

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This course will count towards the ‘natural science’ perspectives and experience requirement for the Environmental Studies major or minor. Please note that, as the course is only 2 credits, taking this course will not complete the category requirement for the major (3 credits minimum)


Winter Quarter 2012

Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering presents….

CEE 250   Environmental Pollution: Energy and Materials Balance (2 cr)

TTh 3:30 – 5:20pm  (SLN 11526)

Prereq:  MATH 120   (Meets NW requirement)

Professor Michael Brett  

This lecture course will introduce students to general concepts of Environmental Engineering and in particular Materials and Energy Balance.  These concepts will be presented within the context of local case studies, in particular the severe eutrophication and subsequent recovery of Lake Washington, nitrogen loading and hypoxia/fish kills in Hood Canal, and global climate change and its regional impacts on water resources and hydrologic cycles in the Pacific Northwest.   (Note:  CEE 250 does not count towards the upper-division requirements of the CEE major.)

This course is particularly useful for students interested in an introduction to environmental engineering, the environment, and/or in the sciences.

GIS (Geographic Information Systems) Day — UW Research Commons

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GIS (Geographic Information Systems) Day — UW Research Commons

GIS Day at the UW

November 16th is GIS Day and the University of Washington will highlight and celebrate the transformational role of Geographic Information Science (GIS) and Remote Sensing Technologies. The day-long event, hosted by the UW Libraries, will offer:

  • GIS and Remote Sensing technical support sessions aka the “Doctor’s Office”
  • GeoCaching
  • Open Source GIS Demonstrations
  • “Lightning Talks” spotlighting the diversity of GIS on campus
  • Keynote address by Dean Lisa Graumlich (College of the Environment)
  • GIS Day Student Poster Competition
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      • What: Posters that demonstrate GIS, Remote Sensing, and other Geospatial Projects
      • When: Entry Deadline Mon Nov 7th (end of day)
      • Awards: $300 first place, $200 second place, $100 third place (cash and prizes)
      • Details: See GIS Day Website

More information about this event…