The Kościuszko Foundation administers a $5,000 scholarship for undergraduate students of Polish descent for the 2020-21 academic school year. Please apply if you feel you fit the requirements below.
Requirements of the “Drs. James and Wanda Trefil Science Scholarship” include:
• Undergraduate student of Polish descent, US citizen or permanent resident
• Outstanding promise in the natural sciences
• Minimum 3.5 GPA
• Deadline February 1, 2020
Please post the attached poster and forward the attached information to possible candidates. Application can be made through this link:
https://www.thekf.org/kf/scholarships/tuition/science/
Check out this volunteer opportunity from fellow UHPer Clara Mucci! Have volunteer opportunities of your own that you’d like to share with the UHP public? Click here to submit a post of your own!
Hi there! Are you a fan of museums, children, or volunteering? If yes, you’re in luck! Come get a sneak peek of the new National Children’s Museum by volunteering at our holiday Family Celebration on December 14th. Perks include free pizza, free museum swag, and a chance to play in super cool children’s exhibits! Details: Volunteers needed on December 14th from 11:30 am to 4:30 pm Morning shift is 11:30-2:30, afternoon shift is 1:45-4:30 Please email events@nationalchildrensmuseum.org if you’re interested!
Have you ever wondered about the environmental impacts of your fashion choices? If you’re like me, you’ve thought about it a couple times and immediately dismissed it – that all feels too tough to think through! And so the question lingers and festers just beneath the surface.
But no longer! Thanks to GW Sustainable and the UHP, there is a *free* talk available for you this Friday, 12-1:30PM, in the Hammer Auditorium at the Corcoran School building. The talk will be moderated by Bibiana Obler, who is currently teaching a course for us: HONR 2054, Fast Fashion / Slow Art. Also, there will be *free* lunch provided! If you’d like to come, RSVP here. Come on by!
Note: an earlier version of this post stated that the dinner would take place on 12/4. This is incorrect, the dinner is on 12/11, from 5-7 PM.
Crab Rangoon. The creamy, crabby, fried deliciousness. Can you feel it cry out to you?
Dear UHPers, the end of the semester is nigh. I know, it seems unbelievable. But here it is. The exams, the papers, the presentations…it can all seem like too much.
But fear not! Fortunately for us UHPers, semester’s end also marks the arrival of the always-anticipated Student Faculty Dinner. Join us on Wednesday, December 11th from 5pm to 7pm at Chalin’s Chinese to gorge on Crab Rangoons and other delectable treats. Tickets are $7 – that’s cheaper than Chipotle, even without the guac! For less than the cost of a burrito, you can enjoy mountains of Chinese food and stimulating conversation with your favorite students, faculty and staff of the UHP. A win-win situation!
How about this veggie lo mein? I can almost taste it.
Tickets will be on sale beginning THIS Wednesday, 11/20, in the UHP Townhouse. In order to get a ticket, you will need to come to the Townhouse and give us $7 in cash. Tickets will be on sale until 4 PM on Wednesday, 12/11 – if you plan to attend, PLEASE make sure you sign up! We want to give the folks at Chalins the best number of attendees we can. Will you still be able to purchase your ticket at the door? Yes. But will your doing so make me sad inside? Absolutely.
This year, we’re also adding a new element to the dinner – students will be able to invite their own favorite non-UHP professor along with them! This isn’t required, but if you’d like to bring someone along, you can print out or send them the invitation at the bottom of this post. We also have printed copies of the invitation in the UHP townhouse. If you don’t use this invitation, please be sure to tell them to RSVP! They can RSVP by emailing the UHP email.
A couple further notes: you will not need to come to the event together with the faculty you invite, they just need to RSVP to the UHP email. Invited faculty are also not required to pay.
Are you looking to read more in the new year? Do you wish you could read more contemporary literature outside of the classroom? Consider joining The Review, the UHP’s book club! We are a small group of individuals who share a love for reading, yet find it challenging to find time to read for fun in our busy college schedules. In The Review, we will be reading a piece of contemporary literature each month, and will be reviewing each book and share our thoughts with the rest of the UHP.
Our first meeting with be in January 2020 where we will be discussing the novel The Great Alone by Kristin Hannah. Winter break is a great time to get ahead on some reading!
If you are interested in joining and would like to hear more before our first meeting, please add your email to our interest form here!
At Consero, we are on a mission to transform the world of executive conferences, one great program at a time. Our events offer senior executives from large enterprises a more valuable and intimate opportunity to network and learn about innovative, best-in-class solutions that are changing the face of business today.
Why Work for Consero?
What really makes Consero stand out as a great place to work in the DC area is our people. Ambitious, passionate, outgoing, friendly, and fun—these are just a few words that describe our extraordinary, tight-knit team. Consero’s events focus on quality over quantity, and our team members demonstrate this in our daily work, as well as our personal and professional interactions.
Additionally, through our unique onboarding process as well as ongoing training, our team members learn everything they need to know in order to be a success here at Consero and work with confidence. The skills you will learn – whether related to communication, contract negotiation, or even research – will benefit you not only during your time at Consero, but in your future personal and professional endeavors as well.
Key Responsibilities
Coordinate all event-related logistics before and after each event, including travel arrangements and miscellaneous requests
Maintain event databases, which include attendee records, event data, room listings, budget data, etc.
Select and negotiate contracts with hotel, audio/visual, pipe/drape, entertainment, and other vendors to improve the event experience while managing costs.
Travel frequently to events (8-10 times a year) and manage onsite operations
Provide daily, concierge-level customer service
Analyze inbound invoices to resolve discrepancies and create post-event reports
The Ideal Candidate
Has a 4-year degree as well as formal event and project management experience
Is proficient in Microsoft Office products; able to use a Mac OS X platform, web-based databases, and Google Apps.
Extremely detail-oriented, organized and methodical
Demonstrates advanced interpersonal communication skills, and has excellent business writing and proofreading skills
Strong problem-solving skills, resourcefulness, flexibility, good judgement, and discretion
Able to meet tight deadlines and embraces constantly changing timelines and priorities
Is positive, professional and has a good sense of humor
Able and willing to work evenings and weekends (seasonally) and travel frequently (8-10 times a year)
Our Perks
Consero’s events would not exist without its people. We value our employees, and we offer a host of perks to demonstrate our commitment to happy, productive employees.
These include:
PTO that increases with tenure
Paid sick leave
End-of-the-year recess for whole office
Eight paid annual holidays
Half day summer Fridays
Subsidies for health and dental insurance
Voluntary vision insurance enrollment
Flexible Spending Account (FSA) access
Access to 401k
Tax-free transit and parking benefits
Metro access
Exciting travel opportunities
Regular team happy hours and fun after-work events
Monthly team breakfast
Casual attire
If you are interested in applying or would like to hear more about this position, please email Alex Dent (adent@consero.com) for more information.
Do you want your voice to be heard in the creation of our university’s upcoming five-year strategic plan? Read below as Peer Advisor Daniel shows how you can do just that!
Hi, everyone! I wanted to update you all on the work of the strategic planning committee on high-quality undergraduate education. On Tuesday afternoon, Profs. Gayle Wald and Jason Zara, chair and vice chair of the committee, hosted a town hall for the GW community, with several other committee members attending. We heard from faculty, staff, and students and are extremely appreciative for their helpful input. Their comments thoughtfully addressed enhancing our STEM program, academic advising, first-year student experience, and out-of-classroom learning.
With that mind, I’d like to invite you to attend one of two town halls that I’ll be leading next week intended for students. We hope to have additional productive conversations that will help guide our committee’s work for the next few months and thus the university’s future for the next several years. I want to again emphasize how important it is that we receive input from students given our distinct focus on undergraduate education. As an undergraduate, it’s important that every stakeholder in this university has her voice heard so that we can craft a five-year plan for the Board of Trustees that makes genuinely meaningful change.
The two town halls will be held in Funger Hall, Room 103 on Tuesday, November 5 and Wednesday, November 6 at 6:30 PM. We’re providing pizza and soft drinks to demonstrate our appreciation for your help, and to recognize that the ol’ GWorld balance might be getting a little low at this point. That’s even more of a reason to tell you friends and bring them along! See you there!
This one took me far too long to do in Photoshop. Please admire my handiwork.
Ah, Facebook. Ol’ Faithful. The land of parents, baby photos, extended family members you’ve talked to once, and acquaintances from middle school that you wouldn’t say hello to now if you passed on the street.
The UHP Facebook page is an active place – a hub of free food notifications, event announcements, and program announcements. It is probably the best place other than the blog and the NewsFlash to find information about upcoming events and deadlines for the program.
There’s nothing fancy about our Facebook page. It has no fun Insta stories managed by Peer Advisor Brittney, nor Weekly Wisdom Tweets from Peer Advisor Ryan. The UHP Facebook stands strong nevertheless, a bulwark of regularity in the chaos that surrounds us. It has weathered many a storm, lived through many an SA scandal, seen Honors Advisors and Program Coordinators come and go. It has survived them all.
So, if you have a Facebook and haven’t already, come on over and give us a like. Let your timeline, filled as it is with videos of obscure stand-up comedy and endless political arguing between people you’re not sure you’ve ever even met, be dotted with the delights of the UHP. Find us here: https://www.facebook.com/theUHP
Looking to gain experience in the research process? Knowledgeable aboutdata science, computer science, or genetics?Check out this research assistantship posting!
Professor: Hayk Barseghyan
Department: Center for Genetic Medicine Research
Title: Integrating Genomic Technologies for Disease Diagnosis
Description: We need motivated undergraduate researchers who are interested in working on various computational biology projects. Optical Mapping a. Development of an annotation package for structural variants in R (nanotatoR). b. Aesthetically pleasant User Interface (UI) development. c. Epigenetic level R package to ascertain methylation levels in optically mapped datasets.
Short/Long Read Sequencing d. Genome assembly with long and short read techniques. e. Developing algorithms to combine both of the techniques. f. Developing methods in tuning up performance of long read assemblers.
Duties: A Junior or Senior in a Computer Science, Data Science, or Genetics major. We recommend that you have a background in genetics or introductory classes in molecular biology.
Recommended Knowledge: 1) Programming Language: Java or C++ (Familiar) 2) Scripting language: Python or R (Good) 3) Web development: Perl CGI or html or any other open source tool for UI development (Familiar) 4) Database: Microsoft SQL (Familiar) 5) Operating system: Linux (Familiar)
We are looking for multiple students. If you are proficient in at least one of these please contact us.
*If credit is sought, all registration deadlines and requirements must be met. Students selected to be research assistants should contact Brianna Crayton (bcrayton@gwu.edu) whether they intend to pursue credit or not.
Do you like free food? Of course you like free food! Join student staff member Ronnie and come by the townhouse on Sunday, November 10, from 10am-2pm to eat some free brunch food and play some board games with the UHP community. RSVP at the Facebook event here. Hope to see you all there!
