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Global Health Career Week 2013: April 15th-20th

Join the Department of Global Health for a week long exploration of Global Health as a topic and career. Each day includes different seminars, panels, or workshops. 
Visit the following website for the complete schedule and information:
http://globalhealth.washington.edu/global-health-career-week-2013 

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Reminder! Spring Career Fair TOMORROW!

WHEN:  Tuesday, April 16, 2013TIME: 3:00 - 7:00WHERE: HUB BallroomsDRESS CODE: Business CasualOpen to all majors and class levels and alumnifrom all three UW campuses!
Have you been looking for that perfect career position, summer job or internship opportunity? 

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UW Freshwater Science Initiative Faculty Candidate Seminars

We are coming up on the 3rd week of the UW Freshwater Science Initiative Faculty Candidate Seminars and encourage faculty, staff and students to attend!  The seminars will be taking place as follows:
 
Becca Barnes
Post Doc, Institute of Marine and Coastal Sciences, Rutgers University (PhD, 2008 Yale University)
Tuesday, April 16
4:00 p.m., Fisheries (FSH) 102
 
David Butman
Post Doc, US Geological Survey, Yale University (PhD 2012, Yale University)
Wednesday, April 17
4:00 p.m., Fisheries (FSH) 102
 
Gordon Holtgrieve
Post Doc, School of Aquatic and Fishery Sciences, University of Washington (PhD, 2009 University of Washington)
Thursday, April 18
3:30 p.m., Fisheries (FSH) 102 

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Canopy Connections

Canopy Connections

Seattle Audubon is gearing up to launch Canopy Connections, an exciting new citizen science project to map all of the trees in Seattle. Canopy Connections relies on citizen scientists to record local tree data which contributes to a city-wide, collaborative urban tree map. 

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Upcoming Event: Public Forum on The Duwamish River Cleanup!!
When: Thurs, April 18 5:30-7:30pm
Where: Portage Bay Café, 391 Terry Ave N, South Lake UnionThe Public Forum is free and open to the public.  

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UPDATE: trip POSTPONED [event]: PoE field trip to Rattlesnake Ridge

UPDATE: This trip will be postponed to a weekend date later in May (TBA).

Interested in learning more about what it takes to become an interpretive field guide? Celese Spencer and Suzy Karl (PoE alumna, class of ‘01!) will be teaching a course this summer A term about ‘Environmental Interpretation’. 

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Unique and Exciting Opportunity to Serve as Peer Instructor with Program on the Environment and UW International Educational Outreach
Eight upper-level undergraduate students from diverse programs are sought to assist as Peer Instructors with students from Japan (Keio University) from August 1st-21st. 

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Be a part of SAGEs big Earth Day event!  
When: April 25th 7-9pmWhere: Bagley Hall Rm 131
For UWs Earth Day/week this year S.A.G.E. is planning a really great event!  SAGE will be hosting a presentation on climate change featuring a diverse mix of UW faculty, scientists, and researchers, followed by a question and answer session with the audience! 

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[job]: Amazon: Brand Specialist - Home furnishings

This job lead comes from PoE alumna Emily Staskowski (2010) who writes:

I am currently the vendor manager for home furnishings at Amazon. Vendor manager is basically Amazon’s fancy internal term for a buyer. 

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