Daily Archives: October 22, 2015

Apply for the Husky Leadership Certificate

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Applications are now open for the 2015-16 Husky Leadership Certificate cohort: 

Husky Leadership Certificate badgeThrough the  Husky Leadership Certificate (HLC), students identify, articulate, and demonstrate their leadership growth and accomplishments. Students create a leadership e-portfolio, and are matched with a mentor who helps the student reflect upon and give voice to their leadership development. Students must be a junior or senior to be considered.

Applications are due by 5:00 p.m. on Tuesday, November 3. Applicants will be notified by mid-November if they have been selected for the cohort, and will then be matched with a mentor. All HLC students are required to take a 1-credit winter quarter course (available in an in-person environment or online) to support their portfolio development process.

Please consider this unique opportunity for yourself and spread the word to other students who may be interested.

Apply now to be a part of the 2015-16 Husky Leadership Certificate cohort!

For more information about the Husky Leadership Certificate, please visit the Husky Leadership Initiative website.

Meet and Greet with the Pacific Section of Society of Petroleum Engineers!

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Read on for a great networking opportunity! 

Come join SPE for their first Meet and Greet of the school year! This event is for interested students at the University of Washington and for any member of the Pacific Northwest Section of the Society of Petroleum Engineers (SPE). Dr. Tom Doe, a consultant with the FracMan Technology Group within Golder Associates Inc., will briefly talk about his experience as a consultant in the oil and gas industry while being based in Seattle.  He has over 30 years experience in Roch mechanics (especially hydraulic fracturing), Reservoir Engineering, and well test analysis. These social events serve as our quarterly networking and outreach event, where professionals in the oil and gas industry and students get to meet and network.   If you are not already a member (and we hope that you are!), please watch this short video on how to join SPE for free as a student:

When: Thursday, November 5th from 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM

Where: Big Time Brewery & Alehouse (near UW in Seattle). Minors are welcome in the brewery until 8:00 PM. Due to seating limitations, we currently can accommodate a maximum of 20 people, so please send your RSVP as soon as possible. Google Map Directions 

RSVP:  PN@spemail.org no later than 11/04/115.

 

The SustainableUW Festival is coming up!

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Read on to learn more about The SustainableUW Festival, October 26-31st: 

The 2015 SustainableUW Festival (green.uw.edu/festival) will take place Oct. 26-31. The festival celebrates sustainability efforts at the University of Washington, highlighting contributions and leadership efforts across campus as well as providing opportunities for students, faculty and staff to get involved.

Festival events are hosted by a variety of schools, colleges, student groups and other campus organizations. The Festival is designed to showcase the full scope of sustainability efforts across the university, including both special festival programming as well as regularly-scheduled events. Sustainability events happen year-round at the UW, so the SustainableUW Festival is just one slice of the larger sustainability picture.

Learn more about these and all the other SustainableUW Festival events at their Events page. Also check out their Facebook Page,  Instagram #sustainableUW, or their Twitter account @sustainableUW

New Course “Sustainable Urban Mobility” Abroad for Summer 2016

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Interested in studying abroad? Read on to learn about this exciting summer opportunity! 

A new course titled “Sus­tain­able Urban Mobil­ity” is going to be offered this sum­mer 2016 as a Faculty Led Sem­i­nar to Great Britain, The Netherlands, and Denmark. A brief sum­ma­tion of the sem­i­nar is as follows:

  • June 24 to August 21, 2016.
  • Eng­land, The Nether­lands, and Denmark.
  • Lec­tures, field trips, and case stud­ies pre­sented by local uni­ver­sity fac­ulty, pro­fes­sional plan­ners, and elected officials.
  • Led by Uni­ver­sity of Wash­ing­ton faculty.
  • Appli­ca­tions open to stu­dents from all majors.
  • 15 under­grad­u­ate and 12 grad­u­ate credits.
  • UW Finan­cial Aid applicable.

If you’re inter­ested in learn­ing more about the sem­i­nar, there will be an infor­ma­tion ses­sion held on campus.

When: Thurs­day, Novem­ber 12th at 5:30 PM

Where: Gould Hall 322

For more infor­ma­tion, you can also con­tact Edward David Blum (blumedw@uw.edu) or visit www.sustainurbanmobility.com