Skip to content

Category: GW Events, News, and Opportunities

Workshops, service events, research presentations… hosted by GW departments or the Nashman Center.

Published on Leave a comment on Social Innovation Design Day: Community Solutions to the Immigration Crisis
The Nashman Center's GW Upstart program invites you join them in developing community solutions to the immigration crisis through this year's Social Innovation Design Day 2019 on Friday, October 4th from 11:30am-3:30pm. Please encourage colleagues and students to attend.

On Design Day we will bring together thought leaders and changemakers from all spaces to design solutions to support migrants and to address immigration. When great minds come together we can design a powerful future and unified vision for solving social issues. Join us to design solutions, and foster a more inclusive community for those seeking a home within the U.S. Come alone or as part of a team. Register today to reserve your spot!

Published on Leave a comment on Conversations Series: The Big Data Share

The September 5th, Conversation on Community Engaged Scholarship focused on recent research findings, student surveys, and student service data.

The presentation slides from this event are available here.

The Periscope video is available here.

Wendy Wagner, the Nashman Center's director of community engaged scholarship, presented these findings and facilitated a conversation about uses of the data and new lines of inquiry for the coming year.

We are happy to present/discuss specific findings with your department faculty as well. Contact wagnerw@gwu.edu to schedule a department presentation.

While many topics arose, important themes were: cost of transportation to service sites, future data gathering and reporting, and further mining of the data from the MSL research study.

...continue reading "Conversations Series: The Big Data Share"

Published on Leave a comment on GW’s Fifth Annual Diversity Summit: Nov 7-8, 2019

GW's Fifth Annual Diversity Summit
Be Bold: Learning. Unlearning. Relearning.
November 7th-8th

The Annual Diversity Summit, presented by the Office for Diversity, Equity and Community Engagement, aims to create a space for attendees to engage in critical, thoughtful, and challenging dialogue to inform how we understand ourselves, the larger landscape of higher education, and ways to continue building the most inclusive campus climates on individual and communal levels.

The annual summit features workshops, lectures, panels, and poster presentations on a variety of diversity-related topics, including race and racism, bias, sexuality and gender, and religion, faith, spirituality, and beliefs, and more.

If you are interested in submitting a proposal you can do so here. Proposals are due October 9th, 2019.

If you would like to sign up to volunteer and spread the word, sign up here.

Published on Leave a comment on Alternative Breaks Program Seeking a Faculty Learning Partner
Alternative Breaks has opened the Learning Partner application for their Fall Break DC trip. This position is open to ALL staff and faculty, as well as graduate student staff.
The Fall trip focuses on Hunger and Homelessness and will last from October 19th to October 22nd. The trip is slated to have 10 participants, 2 leaders, and one learning partner.
The role of the Learning Partner is as a participant on the trip who supports the two student leaders. Preference is given to to learning partners with experience in the issue area (in this case, hunger and homelessness) to add context and assist in participants' learning. Additionally the Learning partner will:
  •  Liaise for the University. Should something happen on the trip, LP's are tasked with keeping the entire group’s safety in mind and acting in the best interest of the university.
  • Serve as a helping hand to the leaders as needed when it comes to logistics, pre-trip education, fundraising, volunteer management, reflection, etc.
  • Contribute to the learning, leadership, and service development of both leaders and participants on an Alternative Break trip.
The deadline is September 13th at 5:00pm. The following week, trip leaders will conduct interviews with applicants before selecting a Learning Partner. All costs associated with participating as a Learning Partner are funded by the trip budget.
If you have any questions, please email: altbreaks@gwu.edu. To apply, use the link above.

Published on Leave a comment on GW’s Community Service & Engagement Fair: Friday, Sept 13th

GW's annual Community Service and Engagement Fair will be Friday, September 13th from 1-5pm in the Marvin Center's Continental Ballroom.

Students and faculty are encouraged to take this opportunity to meet the staff of many local nonprofit and human services organizations to talk about opportunities to partner and create new initiatives.

Organizations registered for the event include:

  • 826DC
  • YWCA National Capital Area
  • Jumpstart
  • Life Pieces To Masterpieces, Inc.
  • The AnBryce Foundation
  • Little Friends For Peace
  • Cystic Fibrosis Foundation
  • Reading Partners
  • Rock Creek Conservancy
  • African American Civil War Museum
  • CASA (Court Appointed Special Advocates) for Children of DC
  • Ward 8 Woods
  • Asylum Seeker Assistance Project
  • Rock Creek Conservancy
  • US Dream Academy
  • Capital Area Food Bank
  • ArtReach GW
  • National Center for Missing and Exploited Children
  • Latin American Youth Center
  • FoodPrints
  • International Spy Museum
  • Raising a Village Foundation
  • DC Prevention Center Wards 1 & 2
  • SOME, So Others Might Eat
  • Mosaic Theater Company of DC
  • Community of Hope
  • Christ House
  • Higher Achievement
  • For Love of Children
  • Atlas Performing Arts Center
  • City Gate
  • US Dream Academy
  • The Petey Greene Program at George Washington University
  • Homeless Children's Playtime Project
  • JxJ
  • GWSeves

Published on Leave a comment on GW’s ArtReach Gallery Exhibit Featured in WAMU Story

This month, an exhibit by GW's ArtReach Gallery, located in THEARC in DC's Ward 8, featured artwork created by local high school students based on their interview with a Holocaust survivor. Linked here is a thought-provoking piece on the exhibit, by WAMU.

‘They Ask Me, What Is The Holocaust?’ Teens Connect With Holocaust Survivors Through Art

 

Published on Leave a comment on New Professional Development Series on Health Equity

Nashman Faculty Affiliate, Dr. Maranda Ward shared this great new opportunity with us:

GW Health Sciences is pleased to announce a professional development series on health equity. The Department of Clinical Research and Leadership (CRL) is sponsoring the series to facilitate a shared understanding of health equity and its use as a lens for teaching, practicing, and service.

The series runs from September to January, 2020 and is open to the GW community and the public. CMEs are available. The five-month-long series will take place on the second Thursday of each month on the Foggy Bottom campus.

To register for the first event on September 12 or to learn more about the series, please visit: https://go.gwu.edu/healthequity

The first event on Sept. 12 from 10 to 11 am features Maranda Ward, EdD, MPH, discussing "Framing Health Equity." Ward, assistant professor in CRL, developed the series. "This health equity learning series will better equip us to fulfill our social mission in teaching, research, and service," Ward said. "It is chocked full of local experts and national leaders who rely on evidence and innovation to put the justice back in health."

Among the topics covered in the series are:

  • Social determinants of health
  • Recognizing vulnerable and socially disadvantaged U.S. populations
  • Workforce equity
  • Contemporary challenges to health equity
  • Cultural humility
  • Root causes of health disparities

Published on Leave a comment on GW Named on Washington Monthly List of America’s Best Colleges for Student Voting

George Washington University appeared on the Washington Monthly's List of America's Best Colleges for Student Voting. The list includes 80 institutions. Notably, none of GW's market basket schools appear on this list.

Congrats to GW and particularly to the GW Votes program for this success.

Please do forward your students to TurboVote, an online platform available to the GW community which provides timely notifications on upcoming elections wherever users are registered to vote, as well as non-partisan information about local, state, and federal candidates.

Published on Leave a comment on $10,000 Knapp Fellowship: Application Deadline Extended to May 24th

“Our hope is that this award will help students make a difference. Since arriving at George Washington, we have been struck by our students’ passion for changing the world and by the imaginative and intellectually serious way in which they harness that passion by developing concrete, innovative projects.” — Former GW President, Steven Knapp

The Steven and Diane Robinson Knapp Fellowship for Entrepreneurial Service-Learning has been established at the George Washington University to support student projects that make a significant difference to the lives of others. Working with a faculty advisor and partners in the community, Knapp Fellows address social issues in their community context, through a combination of scholarship and action. Knapp Fellows receive up to $10,000 to connect scholarly research a social issue with the implementation of an entrepreneurial community based project.

The Knapp Fellowship supports students in any discipline. Previous Knapp Fellows have implemented projects related to: school support for students who are immigrants, telling the stories of Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women (MMIW), addressing food waste and food insecurity in DC public schools, youth development through the arts, supporting survivors of sexual assault, and voter participation in under-represented populations. The students’ scholarly work has included research papers, presentations, and even a documentary film.

GW undergraduate and graduate students, working individually or in teams, are encouraged to apply.

  • Step 1: Contact Rachel Talbert for an initial advising meeting (rachellt@gwmail.gwu.edu)

  • Step 2: Submit proposal by May 24th, 2019

  • Step 3: Finalists are contacted and prepare presentations to a review panel

  • Step 4: Selected Knapp Fellows implement their scholarly work and community project in the 2019/2020 academic year.

To learn more about current and previous Knapp Fellows and the application process click here.

You can also learn more from the current Knapp Fellows and their faculty advisors at the upcoming Symposium for Community Engaged Scholarship, Friday, April 26th at 2:30pm.

Published on Leave a comment on Colleen Packard Wins the Nashman Prize

Colleen Packard, a Master’s student pursuing a degree in Master's of Public Health in Community-Oriented Primary Care, has won the Nashman Prize for her Community-Based Participatory Research! Undergraduate and graduate students who present their research at the annual GW Research Days event are invited to submit for consideration for the Nashman Prize, which recognizes excellence in Community-Based Participatory Research.

Read more about her research below, and read more about the Nashman Prize here.

Screen Shot 2019-04-15 at 11.37.20 PM.png

Colleen’s Project: Parent & Student Knowledge, Attitude, and Perceptions of Youth Sports Injuries the Feasibility of Expanding Athletics Activities Diversity in a Community Non-Profit Organization will be presented at the Nashman Symposium on April 26th sign up here to attend https://givepul.se/nrvz0

Colleen did research with Beacon House, a community non-profit organization located in the Edgewood Commons complex of Washington, DC whose mission is to close the education achievement gap for children in Ward 5. Beacon House’s athletics program is a signature offering of the organization, and the tackle football program is the largest and most successful of the sports offered.

However, with increased awareness of concussion risk in youth sports, Beacon House requested this research be done in order to adequately inform any future action by its administration. The purpose of this study is to conduct an assessment of parent and student perceptions of youth sports injuries. The study also surveys Beacon House parents and students to see how the athletics program could potentially expand in the future. The mixed-methods study utilizes survey measures and focus groups to measure both parent and student knowledge, attitudes, and perceptions of concussions. The athletics interest form will furthermore show which sports parents and students are interested in playing, either in lieu of or in addition to tackle football. All methods were reviewed by Beacon House before beginning data collection, and Beacon House staff are integral to participant recruitment.

Learn more at beaconhousedc.org.

Published on Leave a comment on One Year Later: Knapp Fellow Gillian Joseph and Find Our Women

/

Screen Shot 2019-04-15 at 10.18.32 PM.png

Gillian Joseph was one of two winners for the 2018-2019 Knapp Fellowship Award. Her research project, Find Our Women, began with Gillian talking to women who were survivors, and family members of Indigenous women that are missing, murdered or victims of violence. She did this work within her honors thesis research and wanted to find protective factors for these Indigenous women. She began looking at the Dakota Access Pipeline camp, and concluded that decolonizing a space/society is a protective factor for violence against Indigenous women.

To learn more about Gillian’s early phases of the research project, and her inspirations for the project read this article!

After one year of Gillian’s groundbreaking community-based research, she was published in the APA journal through an internship at the American Psychological Association. She focused on Native American issues and met a Native American psychologist, who helped her publish a paper about the intersection of psychology and violence against women. She also has another article under review in the Journal of Indigenous Research .

To read Gillian’s journals click these links:

APA Journal: https://www.apa.org/pi/oema/resources/communique/2018/11/standing-sisters Journal of Indigenous Research: https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/kicjir/

Gillian is creating a non-profit organization, Project Find Our Women, which gives money to Indigenous women to tell stories from their communities that aren’t being seen or heard so that other women can relate, and reach out if they are feeling the same violence or treatment. Learn more about Project Find Our Women here.

Gillian is graduating from GW and will get her master degree through a program called Erasmus Mundus, which is a program through the EU and fully funded. She will focus on cross-cultural psychology. She wants to continue her work and extend it to other Indigenous populations. She also wants to expand her non-profit and tell different stories. Gillian has done excellent work, her progress in a year is just amazing.  Nashman is so proud of Gillian, and we're excited to see what her future holds!

Published on Leave a comment on Special Screening: The Best of Enemies

Join the Office for Diversity, Equity, and Community Engagement and the March on Washington Film Festival on Wednesday, April 10th at 7pm in the Jack Morton Auditorium for a special screening of the new film, The Best of Enemies, starring Taraji P. Henson and Sam Rockwell.

The film screening will be followed by a guided discussion with GW School of Media and Public Affairs professor, Dr. Imani M. Cheers.

Doors open at 6:30pm and admission is free and on a first come first serve basis. To register click here.

Published on Leave a comment on Spring 2019 Symposium on Community-Engaged Scholarship

The Spring 2019 Symposium on Community-Engaged Scholarship is coming up on Friday, April 26th from 12:00 p.m. to 3:30 p.m. on the 3rd floor of the Marvin Center.

We will be heavily featuring Nashman Affiliated Faculty and the great community-engaged scholarship students have been doing in their classes. For a program and more information, visit our Symposium page here. You can RSVP here.

We’re excited to see you all there on April 26th!

Published on Leave a comment on March Conversation on Community-Engaged Scholarship: The History of Inequity in DC – What Community Engaged Scholars Need to Know

Our March Breakfast Conversation on Community-Engaged Scholarship is coming up next week on March 27th from 9:30 a.m. to 10:45 a.m. in the Winston Churchill Library and Center at Gelman Library. Dr. Maranda Ward will facilitate this Conversation about the history of inequity in Washington, D.C. and our role in partnering with those who are working toward justice. For more information and RSVP, click here.

Published on Leave a comment on Women’s Works: Compiled and Directed by Leslie Jacobson

This event is a celebration of Professor Leslie Jacobson's over 40-year career at GW as a professor of theatre and an advocate for social change through the arts. “Women's Works celebrates theatre's ability to awaken our empathy and inspires us to make positive social change.” Selections from Strangers in Their Own Land, The Body Project, Evil, Vanishing Point, Migratory Tales, The South Africa Projects, A...My Name Is Alice - among other plays and musicals - come together to illuminate the power of story.

March 28, 2019 at 7:30PM
March 29, 2019 at 7:30PM
March 30, 2019 at 5:00 p.m.
March 31, 2019 at 2:00 p.m.

Dorothy Betts Marvin Theatre, Marvin Center

Purchase tickets online here.

This production is accompanied by a panel discussion on the power of theatre to be a catalyst for social change. Link here for more information on that event.

Viewing Message: 1 of 1.
 Notice

This site uses cookies to offer you a better browsing experience. Visit GW’s Website Privacy Notice to learn more about how GW uses cookies.