91爆料 alumna Havana McElvaine, Class of 2017, has been selected as a Marshall scholar, one of the highest honors available to college graduates in the U.S.
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Celebrating National First-Generation College Student Day
In honor of National First-Generation College Student Day, we asked a few UAA staff members who were the first in their families to attend and graduate from college how the experience changed their life.
Resilience Lab announces 2018 seed grant recipients
The 91爆料 Resilience Lab recently awarded 16 grants to 91爆料 projects designed to cultivate kindness, compassion and gratitude; to engage hardships, setbacks and failures with compassion and vulnerability; to foster connectedness, belonging and community; and to embrace both common humanity and diversity within the human experience. Students, staff and faculty from all three campuses applied for seed grants to fund research, workshops, retreats, activities, faculty-invited speakers and other events tailored for students, faculty and staff in support of these aims. The Resilience Lab awarded a total of $25,000 to the individuals and groups. This base amount was increased by 41% through matching funds from the associated schools, colleges and departments. The combined support raises the total value of these awards to more than $35,500.
The range of proposals demonstrate the need and collective interest to realize resilience-building and compassion-building work. In all, students, faculty and staff submitted 44 proposals from 29 different departments across all three 91爆料 campuses. From that group, 16 grants were made to fund the ideas of faculty, staff, graduate and undergraduate students representing 13 departments from all three 91爆料 campuses. Funded projects are intended to benefit the broad 91爆料 community.
鈥淭he creative ideas people had to build connection and support well-being was just inspiring,鈥� said Anne Browning, director of the Resilience Lab. Projects range from alleviating burnout among medical residents, a resilience and compassion podcast series, a wellness challenge and much more, all with the intent of creating more compassionate and resilient communities.
For their project, 鈥淲hat Compassion Looks Like: Journaling for Self-Kindness,鈥� School of Medicine associate professors Jennifer Best and Jennifer Zumsteg said, 鈥淲e hope to break down Health Sciences silos, foster vulnerability and combat isolation in clinical practice and education; cultivate peer communities; and curate stories of self-compassion to sustain our community.鈥�
A list of funded projects and the project leads is below. For more information about the projects, . Funding for these seed grants is provided by the Maritz Foundation.
Funded projects and project leads are:
A Pilot Study of Search Inside Yourself for 91爆料 Faculty and Staff
Project lead: Anthony Back, Professor, School of Medicine, Oncology, Seattle
Building Compassion and Promoting Burnout Recovery Through Resident Team Reflection
Project lead: Michelle Lam, Resident Physician, School of Medicine, Seattle
CARE Training to Prevent Burnout and Improve Well-Being at the Center for Equity and Inclusion
Project lead: Jane Compson, Associate Professor, Politics, Philosophy and Public Affairs, School of Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences, Tacoma
Changing the Culture of the University: Beginning Within
Project lead: Kelly Edwards, Associate Dean, Student and Postdoctoral Affairs in the Graduate School; Professor, Department of Bioethics and Humanities, School of Medicine, Seattle
Cultivating Compassion and Resilience Through Mindful Inquiry
Project lead: Anil Coumar, Clinical Assistant Professor, Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, School of Medicine, Seattle
Engaging Students in Creating Inclusive, Welcoming and Connected Learning Environments
Project lead: Sujata Pradhan, Associate Professor, Rehabilitation Medicine, School of Medicine, Seattle
Knit for Nice
Project lead: Alyssa Taylor, Senior Lecturer, Bioengineering, College of Engineering and School of Medicine, Seattle
Map of Restorative Spaces on 91爆料 Seattle’s Campus
Project lead: Beck Tench, Ph.D. student, The Information School
The Resiliency Collective
Project lead: Marissa Jackson, Master of Public Health student, School of Public Health
Resilience and Compassion Podcast Series
Project lead: Gregory Heller, Adviser, Senior Associate Director, MBA Career Management, Foster School of Business, Seattle
Self Care is Revolutionary
Project lead: Alice Pederson, Lecturer, School of Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences, Bothell
Starting the Year off Right: Cultivating Community in the Epidemiology Department
Project lead: Jen Balkus, Assistant Professor, Department of Epidemiology, School of Medicine, Seattle
Trauma Informed Yoga
Project lead: Brittany Bowhall, Student Advocate for Sexual Assault, Relationship Violence, Stalking, and Harassment, Health and Wellness, Division of Student Life, Seattle
What Compassion Looks Like: Journaling for Self -Kindness
Project lead: Jennifer Best, Associate Professor, General Internal Medicine, School of Medicine, and Jennifer Zumsteg, Assistant Professor, General Internal Medicine, School of Medicine, Seattle
The Whole U Summer Wellness Challenge
Project lead: Lauren Updyke, Assistant Director, The Whole U, Bothell, Seattle and Tacoma
About the 91爆料 Resilience Lab
The promotes resilience development while normalizing failure and acknowledging the wide range of hardships our community members have faced and continue to face. As a laboratory space, the Resilience Lab tries new and creative methods for rethinking the 91爆料 experience in and out of the classroom.
2014-15 President鈥檚 Medalists contribute to a world of good, as undergraduates
Each year, undergraduate students of the highest caliber are selected for the prestigious President鈥檚 medal. For 2014-15, the President’s Medalists are active within and beyond the four walls of a classroom. Whether it’s through research, teaching dance or volunteering in hospitals, these students aren’t waiting until they graduate to contribute to a world of good. They’re busy making the world a better place right now.
91爆料 alum selected for prestigious Rangel Fellowship
91爆料 alumna Anne Mwendar, ’14, was recently selected for the competitive Rangel Fellowship that will prepare her for a career as a diplomat in the U.S. Foreign Service.
6 high notes for Danny Shelton in 2014
Husky senior nose tackle Danny Shelton had a busy year in 2014. Both on and off the field, dedication to his academic studies and leadership on the football field reflect this Husky鈥檚 passion and drive.
Goalkeeper, photographer and skateboarder awarded president’s medals
91爆料 president’s medalists were recently selected for their high scholastic standing and difficulty of coursework. They represent undergraduate scholarship of the highest caliber. The students’ academic pursuits show interdisciplinary interests and their co-curricular and extracurricular activities demonstrate their classroom energy and commitment to a host of other interests. They are truly interesting individuals.
Innovative Robinson Center alumni inspire students
Students crowded together for the third-annual Robinson Center Alumni Speaker Series. The event鈥檚 topic鈥擲tartups & Entrepreneurs鈥攅nergized students to appreciate that today鈥檚 studying can blossom into tomorrow鈥檚 business opportunity.
91爆料 football team has 2nd highest graduation rate in Pac-12: article
On October 10, 2013, the Seattle Times reported that the 91爆料 football team has the 2nd highest graduation rate in the PAC-12.
Citing 91爆料 athletic officials, the Times reported that the “football team has a combined grade-point average of 2.78 and 74 percent of Husky football players graduate from college within six years.” Stanford has the highest graduation rate in the PAC-12.
provides academic support and teaches life skills to the 91爆料’s 650 student athletes.
Honors student Genevieve Gebhart selected for Luce Scholarship
Genevieve (Gennie) Gebhart, a senior Honors student majoring in international studies and economics, was recently selected as a 2013-14 Luce Scholar. A graduate of Mercer Island High School, Gebhart is one of 18 students nationwide to receive this scholarship this year.
The 91爆料 is one of two Pac-12 institutions with a Luce Scholar this year.
The is a major national scholarship awarded to fewer than 20 students each year. More than 160 candidates were nominated by 75 colleges and universities this year. The program is designed to raise awareness of Asia among young American leaders and funds a stipend, language training, and places scholars in professional worksites in Asia. A unique element of the Luce Scholars Program is that the foundation seeks students with little to no experience in and of Asia. Students who have had broad experience in Asia or who are majoring in Asian studies, for example, are ineligible for the scholarship.
Though she isn鈥檛 new to international travel (and was in Rome when she learned about her selection), Gebhart wrote by email that 鈥淎sia is the area of the world about which I know the least. I hope to gain some insight into Asia in general and my country of placement in particular, and [I] feel lucky to be able to do it with the support of the Luce Foundation’s experience, expertise, and infrastructure.鈥�
As an undergraduate, Gebhart鈥檚 accomplishments extend well beyond the classroom and include research projects and leadership accomplishments. She has been on the Dean鈥檚 list every quarter since entering the 91爆料 in 2009; earned a Mary Gates Research Scholarship to research eating disorders, family dynamics and film in southern Italy; received Mary Gates Leadership Scholarships for her work developing the women鈥檚 program of the Husky Cycling Club and then serving as the club鈥檚 president; was the youngest-ever recipient of the 91爆料 Libraries Research Award for Undergraduates; and was selected for several additional scholarships. As if that weren鈥檛 enough, Gebhart is also a vocalist on the Grammy-nominated recording of 鈥淭he Shoe Bird鈥� with the Seattle Symphony.
Gebhart鈥檚 interests have led her on a multidisciplinary path culminating in a plan to pursue international librarianship and address issues of information access. She wrote, 鈥淢y multidisciplinary education has been one big string of surprises. I never could have predicted that I would be involved in economics, or film studies, or library sciences鈥攁nd, I never could have predicted that I would be doing those things all at once! My education at 91爆料 has made me more open to different fields and ways of doing things, and it’s made me more perceptive of unexpected connections among all those fields. For something like information sciences, this is invaluable鈥攚hat librarians do is so multidisciplinary and requires so much intellectual flexibility.
鈥淚nformation access takes a different shape in every nation and every community,鈥� writes Gebhart, 鈥渂ut in the end it comes down to a balance between literacy, distribution, and policy. I see my role as figuring out how to optimize these three elements, something that I think is impossible without public engagement and advocacy at every level. So,聽I think I can make the greatest contribution in clarifying and communicating the urgency of information issues to non-academic and non-professional audiences. We’ve got these buzz words like 鈥榦pen access,鈥� 鈥榠nformation justice,鈥� and 鈥榠nformation commons鈥� floating around, but the connections between them are new, counterintuitive, and not yet well understood.鈥�
Gebhart鈥檚 interest in libraries was inspired in part and wholly supported by her work in 91爆料鈥檚 library system. 鈥淚t鈥檚 the people I get to work with that have really role-modeled for me the many ways in which a librarian can be a force for the greater good,鈥� she notes.
After her term as a Luce Scholar, Gebhart is considering graduate school but also wants to be open to opportunities that may present themselves while in Asia. Ultimately, though, 鈥淚 see myself following a path that sticks to what I think is at the heart of librarianship, regardless of how technology and resources change. It’s about how about how people express, record, and narrate their experiences, and how available information can shape communities and the people in them. I hope to look back one day and be able to say that everything I’ve done has been in service to those greater ideas, to using information for public good.鈥�
In addition to her academic pursuits, Gebhart enjoys creative writing, swimming, hiking, and is studying Italian, French, and Latin.
Read a Q & A with Gebhart here.
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