WASLA National Conference Stipends will be awarded to: ● Two student members of ASLA. Applicants must be enrolled in a university Landscape Architecture program in Washington State. ● Two emerging professionals that are current ASLA Washington Chapter members. Emerging professionals are those who graduated from university in the Class of 2017 or more recently. The stipend is an award of $1,700.00 to attend the 2022 ASLA National Conference in San Francisco, CA on November 11-14, 2022. Recipients will be responsible…
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Internship Opportunity with Seattle Public Utilities
Seattle Public Utilities (SPU) is seeking two (2) interns for the Drainage and Wastewater (DWW) Line of Business to support the DWW Policy Program. Policy interns will be responsible for supporting policy development by collaborating with staff across DWW, SPU, and broader City family to facilitate policy development, research policy issues, evaluate potential solutions, prepare briefings, and help to develop recommendations. Policy topics will generally focus on stormwater and wastewater system management and maintenance, and may include green stormwater…
Introducing Ride Now!
Ride Now offers on-demand rides to eligible riders by providing ride vouchers up to $20 in value through Uber, Lyft or Yellow Cab to anywhere they want to go. While you don’t have to live in Seattle to use the service, your trip does have to start or end in the Seattle city limits. Riders can claim up to six $20 Ride Now vouchers per month (three roundtrips). Riders can use the vouchers to connect to a transit hub or…
LAVENDER GRADUATION!
It’s that time of year again… LAVENDER GRADUATION! In honor of the amazing accomplishments our 2SLGBTQIA+ community members and students have achieved, we proudly celebrate YOU! To our soon-to-be graduates, don’t forget to register for Lavender Graduation 2022. Registration for the event closes this Friday, April 15th, at midnight. ** This event is open to all currently enrolled graduating UW students across the tri-campuses ** Our Program of Events is as follows… Join us, May 31st through June 4th for Lavender Graduation HYPE Week! There…
2021-2022 Drawing in Design Lecture and Workshop Series: Movement, Time, and Spontaneity
Drawing offers a practice for thinking and an important mode of communicating ideas in design. Since 2016 the Department of Landscape Architecture, in collaboration with our professional partners, has convened a quarterly series of public lectures and weekend workshops for students that focus on representation in design. This year’s lineup includes Sofia Warren, Ann Marie Schneider, and Milenko Matanovic. Following the Friday presentation, each guest lecturer hosts a two-day weekend workshop consisting of around 15 undergraduate and graduate students….
2022 CELA Awards
Congratulations to Dani Slowik (BLA ’22), Assistant Professor Catherine De Almeida, and Professor Daniel Winterbottom for receiving the following awards at the recent Council of Educators in Landscape Architecture (CELA) 2022 conference in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Fountain Scholar Award Winner: Daniella Slowik Faculty Award for Excellence in Research and/or Creative Works, Junior Level: Catherine De Almeida Outstanding Educator: Daniel Winterbottom
Empowering BIPOC Youth: Pathways to Sustainable Design Futures
The UW Diversity Seed Grant funded the project “Empowering BIPOC Youth: Pathways to Sustainable Design Futures” under the leadership of UWASLA Youth Outreach Chair Maria Arevalo (BLA ‘23). Maria has continued to work with students of Proyecto Saber at Denny International Middle School (see our last newsletter for a recap of the first session). Fellow UWASLA students Erin Irby (MLA ‘22), Heewon Kim (BLA ‘22), Isa Lewis (BLA ‘23), and Katie Rankin (BLA ‘23) helped support curriculum development and presentations…
Upcoming Events
Undocu Week Leadership Without Borders March 7-11, 2022 | 5-7 PM Undocu Week is hosted by Leadership Without Borders (LWB) and consists of a series of weeklong events that provide knowledge, resources and more to the UW community and beyond! This is the week’s itinerary—all events will be from 5-7pm in the ECC Unity Suite! There will be fun prizes at select events that include Undocu Week swag, music, food and more! We welcome everyone to join us as immigration is an intersectional issue that…
Online Resources
Nakani Native Program Barriers to Revitalizing PNW Traditional Food Cultures Seminar recording and more. EPA Launches EJScreen 2.0, Updating the Community Environmental Justice Mapping Tool *Excerpted EPA announcement The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has updated and redesigned EJScreen, the Agency’s publicly available, award-winning environmental justice (EJ) screening and mapping tool. The redesigned tool, which has been named “EJScreen 2.0”, makes important improvements to better meet the needs of users and provides expanded insight into potential EJ concerns in overburdened communities….
UWASLA Updates
Digital and physical models of Jack Block Park from 2.11 and 2.18 workshops at Denny International Middle School. The UW Diversity Seed Grant funded the project “Empowering BIPOC Youth: Pathways to Sustainable Design Futures” under the leadership of UWASLA Youth Outreach Chair Maria Arevalo (BLA ‘23). Maria has continued to work with students of Proyecto Saber at Denny International Middle School (see our last newsletter for a recap of the first session). Fellow UWASLA students Erin Irby (MLA ‘22), Heewon Kim (BLA ‘22), Isa Lewis (BLA ‘23), and Katie Rankin (BLA ‘23) helped support…