[event] – 14th Annual Undergraduate Research Symposium, Friday, 5/20

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*We encourage ALL undergraduates to check out the undergraduate research symposium.  You could be presenting your capstone project or other research projects here next year*!

Please join us in celebrating the accomplishments of our undergraduates next Friday, May 20th from 12pm-5pm at the 14th Annual UW Undergraduate Research Symposium.  This year, over 900 students will be presenting their work in poster and oral presentation sessions in Mary Gates Hall (with a few additional sessions in Johnson Hall and Meany Studio Theatre).

The Online Proceedings (including event schedule, presenter and mentor search tools, and abstracts) is now available on our website: https://expo.uw.edu/expo/apply/231/proceedings where you can find individual students by name, major, mentor name, or mentor department.

ArcGIS in PoE Computer Lab

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message from ‘the front desk’

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Hi all,


I want to let you know that we’re rolling out an exciting new feature in the PoE Environmental Technology Lab!
I’m installing Windows 7 Partitions and ArcGIS software onto the iMacs in the lab – perfect for GIS students fed up with the Sherman Lab (like me)!
Unfortunately, you cannot access the “S” drive that work is usually saved on in the Sherman Lab, so if you want to bring your GIS lab project down here, you’ll need to take the whole folder that your project is in via flash drive to our lab.
To access the Windows 7 operating system, just restart computers with the dualboot sticker and select the Windows logo on startup using the arrow keys.
-Drew
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[event] – ‘Food Justice’ dialogue and book talk

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FOOD JUSTICE: A SOCIAL MOVEMENT TAKES ROOT

Join us for a dialogue with Food Justice co-author Robert Gottlieb

Monday May 23, 7:00 PM

Architecture Hall 147

What is food justice? How would we define it? Is there a food justice movement?

When we talk about today’s food system, food injustices are ubiquitous. It’s where workers in the fields, the meat processing plants, or the restaurant industry face hazardous and exploitative conditions. It’s in the low-income neighborhoods that lack supermarkets but abound in fast food franchises. And it’s with our food products that sometimes resemble more of a high calorie chemical mash than a wholesome and healthy product. Opposing these unjust conditions, a food justice movement has taken root, seeking to transform the food system, from field to table. Robert Gottlieb, co-author of the new book, Food Justice, will talk about the strengths and the challenges facing these new and dynamic food justice groups and their organizing efforts, the emerging new politics around food, and the efforts to transform the very language and understanding about food, from how food is grown to why eating has become a political act.

Robert Gottlieb is Professor of Urban and Environmental Policy and Director of the Urban & Environmental Policy Institute at Occidental College. He is the author of a dozen books, including most recently Food Justice (with Anupama Joshi, MIT Press). He has been researching and organizing around food system issues for more than two decades and is a long-time social and environmental justice activist and historian of social movements.

 

Sponsored by the Community Alliance for Global Justice  and the UW Department of Urban Design and Planning, College of Built Environments

[event] Creating Sustainable Campus Food Systems

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Creating Sustainable Campus Food Systems:

Student research on food, agriculture, and sustainability at the University of Washington

Friday, June 3

2:00 – 3:00 pm

Wallace Hall, POE Commons
(formerly the Academic Computing Center)
3737 Brooklyn Ave NE

Students in POE’s Sustainability Studio spent this quarter researching options for creating more sustainable food systems on campus! This presentation is your opportunity to learn from their work. Projects include:

  • Models for a campus farmers’ market
  • Students’ willingness to pay for more sustainable meat
  • Behavior change approaches to marketing sustainable food


Please contact Justin Hellier, hellier@uw.edu, with any questions, and we hope to see you there!

[internship] Peer Instructor for UW summer course with Japanese students

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A Summer 2011 internship!

I am recruiting students interested in a peer instructor role with a summer field course for 35 students from Keio University in Japan. The course is “Humans and the Environment in the Northwest Bioregion” and will run from 8/5 to 8/24.  Topics range from wildlife biology and restoration ecology, to urban sustainability and smart growth. You can register for independent study credits if desirable (either summer or fall quarter), but otherwise it is a volunteer internship as there is no pay available.

The course was created jointly by Program on the Environment and the International Educational Outreach Program in 2005, and I have taught the course most years since then.  Students from a variety of departments and majors have served as peers in the past. There is no specific coursework requirement to participate, just an interest in one of the course topics and environmental or international education in general.

Your role will be to help with small group work in the classroom (for communication skills and environmental content classes) and to help guide a single group of 5-7 students through their final project work.  You will be part of a team of 6 UW peer instructors. Ideally peers are available close to full-time during the course itself, plus a few hours/week in June and July for prep before the students arrive.  In the past we have been able to work around the schedules of students with summer quarter classes or part-time jobs.

If you are interested in this opportunity, I can send you last year’s course schedule and examples of final project topics.  Or feel free to call me (cell is best) so we can discuss the course and the role of peer instructor.

Yours,
John

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John C. Withey, Postdoctoral Research Associate
UW College of the Environment, School of Forest Resources
work: 206-543-5772 | cell: 206-214-6819
http://faculty.washington.edu/jwithey/
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[event] – Film Screening “DIVE!” (dumpster diving)

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The student organization, College Greens UW, is holding its 2nd annual three-part film/speaker series dedicated to issues of environmental and social justice. The first event (with The Economics of Happiness and speaker Joanna Wright) was a great success and we’re excited about the next two!

At the next event we will be showing DIVE!–a new film about ‘dumpster-diving’ as a means of raising awareness about and responding to food waste and food justice issues. Following the film, UW graduate student and CHID instructor David Giles will lead a discussion about how we can engage food waste and justice issues here in Seattle.

**Free yummy food will be provided at the showing!**

What: DIVE!—Living Off America’s Waste 
Website: http://www.divethefilm.com/
When: Thursday, May 12th @ 5:30pm
Where: Smith 120
Speaker: David Giles

Film Description: Inspired by a curiosity about society’s careless habit of sending food straight to landfills, DIVE! follows filmmaker Jeremy Seifert and friends as they dumpster dive in the back alleys and gated garbage receptacles of Los Angeles supermarkets. In the process, they salvage thousands of dollars worth of good, edible food–resulting in an eye-opening documentary that is equal parts entertainment, guerilla journalism and call to action.
 
Speaker Bio: David Giles, a PhD candidate in anthropology at the University of Washington, is teaching an advanced special topics CHID course about everyday experience in the shared spaces of the city. The course, titled The Vagaries of Home: Vagrancy, Value and the Abject, encourages students to examine the unknown and unnoticed cultural, political and ecological histories of the city, “from the desks of city planners and politicians to the alleys and interstices written in between the lines of their decisions and the homeless who sleep there.” After the film screening, David will speak about the political and cultural aspects of hunger and waste in Seattle.

The third and final event in this series will be:

Thursday May 19th – “Inside Job” The Oscar-nominated documentary that investigates the causes of the 2008 economic meltdown and its ramifications
Where: Savery 260 at 5:30pm
Speaker: Yoram Bauman

[registration] – Autumn Quarter 2011

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Autumn Quarter 2011 Time Schedule:
http://www.washington.edu/students/timeschd/AUT2011/

Autumn Quarter 2011 Registration Dates (begins April 18, 2011):
http://www.washington.edu/students/reg/priorau11.html

Please review environmental studies major or minor requirements:
Major: http://depts.washington.edu/poeweb/students/requirements.html
Minor: http://depts.washington.edu/poeweb/students/es_minor.html

Autumn Quarter 2011 Perspectives & Experiences lists are now updated:
http://depts.washington.edu/poeweb/students/perspexp.html

ENVIR 490 (pre-capstone seminar): For students who will beginning the capstone series (490-491-492), we are offering the pre-capstone seminar in Autumn 2011.  All students wishing to register for this course MUST e-mail poeadv@uw.edu for an add code.

ENVIR 492 (post-capstone seminar): For students who are finishing the capstone series (490-491-492), you will be registered for ENVIR 492 after ENVIR 491 has been successfully completed.

ENVIR/HSTAA 221 (environmental history of the u.s.): This class is normally offered in the spring, but during the 2011-2012 academic year, it will only be offered Autumn 2011.  It is not scheduled to be offered again until Spring 2013.

  • ENVIR majors who declared before Autumn 2010: this class will count towards one of the two required values & cultures courses.
  • ENVIR majors who declared Autumn 2010 and after: this class is a required values & cultures course.
  • ENVIR minors who declared Autumn 2010 and after: this class is one of 3 options for the values & cultures requirement.
  • Not sure how this will count for you?  Check in with us!