[volunteer] Joint Information Session with Teach For America

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If you’re interested in service after graduation, make sure to attend the joint information session with Peace Corps, Americorps, City Year and Teach for America! It is happening Wednesday, October 24th at 4:00PM in Thomson Hall 134. 


If you are interested in applying for Teach For America, the next deadline is Friday, November 2nd. 

Read more below to learn about Teach For America, the application process and an upcoming resume workshop!

The Basics of Teach For America:

·         Corps members are full-time teachers

·         Training, support and career development opportunities including a master’s degree pathway

·         Option to preference regional placement (46 regions across 35 states) and teaching assignment (preK-12, all content areas)

·         Full salary ranging from $25,500 to $51,000 plus benefits

·         Student loan assistance (access to AmeriCorps education grant and federal loan deferral)

·         All majors and career interests encouraged to apply, regardless of teaching experience

The application requires a one page resume along with a 500 word letter of intent. Recommendations and transcripts are submitted only at a final interview. 

A resume workshop will be run on Tuesday, October 30th 6:00PM (location TBD) with a member of Teach for America Selection Team who will outline what the organization is looking for and to provide tips to improve your resume

For more information

Website: teachforamerica.org

Facebook: facebook.com/TFAatUW

Email: katherine.kleitsch@teachforamerica.org

Attention GIS Students!

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Did you know that most of the Macs in the PoE Student Computer Lab are equipped with ArcMap 10 and Windows software? Come take advantage of the amazing opportunity to design your maps on lightening fast, high-tech computers!

John Wallace Hall and the lab are open from 8:00AM – 6:00PM, Monday through Friday. Come to the PoE Front Desk and show your Student ID to get the password for the door lock. 

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Last week’s Capstone Meet & Greet for ENVIR 490 students was a smashing success! Great food, interesting people, and eager students makes for a great time and a wonderful opportunity to network. 

For those of you who don’t know, the Meet & Greet is an opportunity for students enrolled in pre-Capstone (ENVIR 490) to engage with organizations hosting Capstone internships. The event is much like a job fair, where students get a chance to meet prospective Site supervisors, learn about internship offerings, and practice their networking skills. Participating organizations span local, state, and federal agencies, non-profit groups, and businesses. This quarter we had 38 unique projects from more than 21 host organizations. Projects cover a range of topics as diverse as our students, including policy & regulation, education & outreach, business & sustainability, natural science & restoration, & urban agriculture & food systems.

Thanks to all the Site supervisors, students, faculty and staff that attended and made the event possible!

The Capstone is a great way for PoE students to get involved in volunteer internships that have positive impacts on the environment and community, but you don’t have to wait. Check here, the PoE blog, frequently for regularly posted opportunities like jobs, internships, volunteer work, studying abroad, and more!

You can also email Joe Kobayashi, our undergraduate program coordinator, at jkob@uw.edu for more information about undergraduate opportunities.

[event]: PoE bookclub & pizza lunch this Friday – 10/12!

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Beginning this quarter anyone can informally join an environmental studies book group with students and faculty in PoE. The goal (besides networking among peers) is to read the literature that is influential or informative to the environmental movement and then develop environmental perspectives that are in tune with whatever you think the environmental movement should really look like, and your ability to fight environmental apathy accordingly.
The first book is ’Blessed Unrest: How the largest movement in the world came into being and why no one saw it coming’. The first  of bi-weekly meetings is this friday during lunch in the PoE commons, 1230-120, ideally with the first chapter read or the book on hand, but not enforced. There will be pizza and coffee with just a small recommended donation. Let me know if you’re interested or need a copy, or simply show up friday.
Contact Robert Marsh -robsm2@uw.edu with any questions. Hope to see you there!

[event] A Story Runs Through It: Neighborhood Film Celebration Awards

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October 17th //  7:00PM // SIFF Cinema Uptown

FREE ADMISSION

Join the community in celebrating great neighborhood stories! This culminating event of The Next Fifty’s Civic Action Month celebrates a project that has captured stories about Seattle’s civic fabric through short films from the Seattle area residents of all ages. 

The Celebration and Awards features winning films in the categories of Youth Filmmaker, Adult Filmmakes, and Civic Relevance, as well as other selected videos.

Previews of some of the film submissions along with more information about the event are located HERE

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Take a look at this cool video made by students from the Spring 2012 UW Sustainability Studio course! 

Already thinking about classes for next quarter and looking for a cool course? The upcoming Sustainability Studio topic this Winter will be Zero Waste: From You to UW, taught by one of PoE’s wonderful teaching associates, Megan Horst. The course is primarily project-based where students are able to get involved with environmental efforts and projects on campus and at the community level. 

 It’s definitely worth checking out!

ENVIR 480, Tuesday/Thursday, 10:30AM-12:20PM

(Source: https://www.youtube.com/)

[info session] Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies Graduate Info Session

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Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies Graduate Info Session
Learn more about the Masters degree in Environmental Science, Environmental Management, Forestry and/or Forest Science. 

Location: Davis Wright Tremain LLP (Room 22 East B)
1201 Third Ave
Seattle, WA

When: 10/22/2012 6:00 – 8:00 pm

Please visit the admission events website for more information about all of our upcoming events, and click here to RSVP for the Seattle Information Session.

Yale F&ES Blog

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Deadline is October 17th!

If interested, please send your resume and a cover letter to UWCSF@uw.edu

Details: The term of employment is from October 29th to December 2nd. Hours are flexible and will vary, but should average around 4-8 hours a week. This position is unpaid.

Description: The outreach intern position will support this work through a range of possible tasks including but not limited to writing blogs, taking photos of existing projects, attending CSF or related events, researching potential classes to visit, and speaking to student groups about what the CSF is. Tasks can be developed with some input from the intern based on experience and interests.

An intern will gain experience in basic outreach tactics as well as exposure to some of the amazing work going on and around campus related to sustainability. Upon successful completion of the internships term the intern will also receive a written evaluation of their work that can be used for other job/internship interviews in the future. This is also a strong introduction to the CSF’s processes that would put a student in a good position to seek future involvement with the CSF.

Check out their website to learn more about the organization!

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Thanks to your votes in the Odwalla video contest last year (submission above), Grounds Management won 75 native tress for restoration of the Montlake Cut! Nice work everyone! 

Now it’s time to plant the Montlake Cut! Please join with other students and faculty to help put the the new plants in the ground on Thursday, October 18th from 9:00AM – 2:00PM. Odwalla will be providing refreshments. 

[event]: Short Takes on Capturing Nature

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Monday, October 15, 2012

7 pm, The Neptune Theatre

Tickets: $5 at the door; $4 online at stgpresents.org (additional fees apply)

www.burkemuseum.org/short_takes

Join the Burke Museum at the Neptune Theatre for an evening of fast-paced talks on the enduring relationship between the human imagination and the natural world. Inspired by the International Conservation Photography Awardsexhibit, Short Takes features a stellar lineup of artists, scientists, students, and scholars. Speakers include internationally-renowned photographer Art Wolfe, curators from the Burke and the Seattle Art Museum, and explorers of the seas and the stars. Ten short talks, each illustrated with 20 slides, will take us on a journey from humanities’ first artistic impulses to our latest glimpse into the far reaches of space.

Click here for Short Takes topics and more information.

 

Short Takes is produced in conjunction with Seattle Theatre Group with support from the Boeing Employees Credit Union.

 

Speakers Include:

 

·         Art Wolfe, internationally renowned photographer, host of “Travels to the Edge with Art Wolfe”, and founder of the International Conservation Photography Awards

·      Katie Bunn-Marcuse, Assistant Director of the Bill Holm Center, and a Curatorial Associate of Native American Art at the Burke Museum

·         Allison Fundis, Education and Public Engagement Liaison, Ocean Observatories Initiative/Regional Scale Nodes, University of Washington

·         Shaun Peterson, a pivotal figure in the revival of Coast Salish arts

·      Ellen Dissanayake interdisciplinary scholar and writer, Affiliate Professor in the University of Washington, School of Music

·      Wendy Call, 2012 Writer in Residence for the North Cascades and Joshua Tree National Parks

·      Dan Ritzman, Northwest and Alaska Regional Director of the Sierra Club

·         Brad Rutherford, Executive Director of the Snow Leopard Trust

·      Phil Rosenfield, Graduate Student, Astronomy, University of Washington

·         Patricia Junker, the Ann M. Barwick Curator of American Art at the Seattle Art Museum