February 15, 2023
Q&A with Brotherhood Initiative founder
The Brotherhood Initiative is a project focusing on UW undergraduate men of color, providing resources, mentorship, and experiential learning opportunities with the goal of increasing retention and engagement. We spoke with founding director Joe Lott, an associate professor in the College of Education, about race, entrepreneurship, and the Brotherhood Initiative’s partnership with CoMotion Labs’ new…
NSIN SynGen Challenge – Deadline 3/1
The National Security Innovation Network, in partnership with the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, Defense Intelligence Agency, and Defense Innovation Unit, is running a challenge to identify solutions to support the generation of synthetic training data for computer vision algorithms. White paper submissions will be evaluated by a team of subject matter experts and finalists will be selected…
GeekWire Awards Nominations – deadline 3/3
The much-anticipated and hotly contested GeekWire Awards celebrate the top innovators, entrepreneurs, and technology leaders in the Pacific Northwest. Hosted live from the Showbox SoDo in Seattle, the event includes a seated dinner, entertainment, fun surprises, and award presentations spanning more than a dozen categories. A limited number of half-table and full-table sponsorships are available; contact…
CoMotion: Innovation Gap Fund SPR 23 – apply by 3/6
The CoMotion Innovation Gap Fund provides over $1 million per year in grants of up to $50,000 per project team to help University of Washington innovations transition from academic research grants to attracting seed-stage private investment. This opportunity is open to faculty and postdoctoral fellows, graduate students, and undergraduate students who are at the pre-company…
oSTEM: Movie Night “Pride” – 2/24, 6:00 p.m.
“oSTEM at UW is excited to announce our next event…a movie night! We will be watching PRIDE, a comedic drama about UK gay activists helping miners during the National Union of Mineworkers strike in 1984 (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt3169706/). When: Friday, February 24th at 6pm Where: UW Ocean Sciences Building, Room 425 (This building’s doors lock at 7pm, so if you’re planning…
February 14, 2023
IEEE, ASME,BMES: Casino Royale formal dance – 3/4, 8:00 p.m.
ASME, BMES, and IEEE are going undercover to stage a Casino Royale formal dance on Saturday, March 4th from 8-11 PM at the UW Tower South Cafeteria. Come for a night of casino activities, food and drinks, photos, and more! RSVP now (and come James Bond with us)! Admission costs $10 with alcohol and $8…
LEED Training – Seattle – Winter Webinars
Start off the year by making your resume stand out with the premier sustainability designation called the LEED Green Associate! LEED is simply a sustainability scorecard for green buildings. As buildings can become LEED Certified, people can become LEED accredited! The best way to break into the sustainability space is to attain the LEED Green Associate. It…
NASA: Summer 2023 URP Information Session – 2/23, 10:00 a.m.
WA NASA Space Grant will be holding an info session about our Summer Undergraduate Research Program on February 23. SURP Applications will open on February 24, additional program details can be found here: https://www.waspacegrant.org/programs/detail/interns-fellows/surp/
Summer outreach in Mexico: Info Session – 2/17, 5:00 p.m.
Clubes de Ciencia is a successful student-run, non-profit group in Mexico that collaborates with US universities to host workshops in 9 different cities/universities across Mexico in July-August. They are supported by several organizations in the US, including U of Chicago, Harvard, Royal Society of Chemistry, etc (c.f. annual report). The idea is that a graduate student…
AWIS: 2023 Seattle Scholarships – apply by 3/1
Open to women (any persons who identify as women) who will be juniors or seniors at a four-year college or university in the state of Washington in the Fall of each year. Applicants must have a declared major in the sciences, engineering or mathematics, and must have a United States issued social security number. Winners…