CSE Undergrad News

Dear CSE students:  The national science foundation is doing a study and they are looking to interview (virtually) some students who fit the description below. If you identify and would like to participate, please fill out this short survey and we’ll be in touch.  If we have more than a few volunteers, we may not be able to pass along all the names. Thank you!

We are looking to identify around 5 young people who don’t fit the the traditional profile of a CS major or professional—meaning they haven’t grown up in a tech oriented household, and don’t fit the typical socioeconomic, gender, and racial profile of the tech field.  In addition to the “non-traditional” individuals, we are also specifically looking for one or two young people who do fit the traditional profile of a CS major or professional.  For both groups, we would be interested in how their learning was supported in a variety of settings, including school, out of school programs and at home or online, and if they encountered any barriers, challenges, or discrimination as they pursued their CS interest. Ideally the young people of either profile are currently enrolled in a CS program, or have recently started a job in a computing related field.

From: Matt Whitehill <mattw12@cs.washington.edu>
To: cs-ugrads-urgent@cs.washington.edu
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Date: Mon, 30 Mar 2020 13:37:02 -0700
Subject: Study Request – COVID-19 Cough Monitoring App

The UW Counseling Center is offering the following drop-in groups and workshops for Winter Quarter 2020. Registration is not required and all sessions are FREE. Please visit the Counseling Center’s Eventplore Page for more information.

VALUES IDENTIFICATION AND APPLICATION WORKSHOP
An interactive workshop where graduate students will engage in small group activities to identify their highest values and to learn how these values may be applied to their professional pathways

When: Tuesday, January 14, 1:30 – 3:00 p.m.
Where: Mary Gates Hall, Room 136 – Career & Internship Center Conference Room
Who: Appropriate for graduate students

TRANQUIL TUESDAYS

A drop-in stress reduction and mindfulness group for those affiliated with the military to de-stress, relax, and learn tools for taming stress.

When: Tuesdays, January 14, 21, 28, February 18, 25, and March 3

Where: HUB 337, Student Veteran Life

Who: Appropriate for all military affiliated students

WOMXN OF COLOR HEALING CIRCLE

Designed for Brown and Black womxn of color, including gender non-conforming. The group will focus on building a decolonized therapeutic space addressing any and all issues pertaining to being a womxn of color.

When: Tuesdays, January 14, 28, February 11, 25 and March 10, 3:00 – 5:00pm

Where: Ethnic Cultural Center – Resource Room

Who: Appropriate for Womxn of Color students

MINDFULNESS FOR STRESS & ANXIETY

Help manage stress and anxiety using mindfulness meditation and gentle yoga postures. No prior experience needed. Because sessions build upon each other students need to attend the first and/or second session of either round in order to proceed with the final two sessions.

When: Thursdays, Round 1 – January 16 through February 6. Round 2 – February 20 through March 11. 3:30 – 4:30 p.m.
Where: Schmitz Hall 401, Counseling Center
Who: Appropriate for all students

COPING SKILLS WORKSHOPS

These 5 drop-in workshops focus on learning skills to help you feel better fast.

January 24^th – Mindfulness for Stress Relief

January 31^st – Mindfulness for Self-Compassion

February 7^th – How to Get What You Need in Relationships

February 14^th – Changing Difficult Thoughts

February 21^st – Sleep Better Tonight

When: Fridays, January 25 through February 21 11:30 a.m. – 12:20 p.m
Where:  Schmitz Hall 401,Counseling Center
Who: Appropriate for all students

MENTAL HEALTH FOR THE PEOPLE

Mental Health for the People is a quarterly workshop series focused on mental health topics from a social justice perspective. Specifically, addressing issues such as racial fatigue, navigating mental health as a person of color, mindfulness and social justice work, and non-western healing practices. Each 90 minute drop-in workshop will be a different topic and will include time for a discussion and questions. Some topics may be focused on certain populations whereas others may be broad topics that impact a variety of marginalized identities.

When: Friday, February 14, 3:30 – 5:00pm

Where: Ethnic Cultural Center

Who: Appropriate for all students

LET’S TALK

Counselors—from the Counseling Center and Hall Health—provide informal consultations to help provide insight, solutions and information about other resources at various sites on campus.  Let’s Talk it is not a substitute for regular therapy, counseling or psychiatric care.

When: Weekdays; times vary, visit the website for current schedule
Where:  Locations vary, visit the website for current schedule
Who: Appropriate for all students

Again visit our Eventplore Page for the latest Groups and Workshops!

Natacha Foo Kune, Ph.D.

Pronouns: she, her, hers

Director

University of Washington Counseling Center

401 Schmitz, 1410 NE Campus Pkwy

Box 355830

Seattle, WA 98195-5830

Phone: 206-543-1240   Fax: 206-616-6910

fookune@uw.edu

To protect the confidentiality of our clients, Counseling Center staff will not discuss personal information by e-mail with clients or with others. E-mail may reach unintended audiences through forwarding, address errors, or disclosure as public records.  Clients are urged to limit e-mails to the Center to scheduling issues, and to contact us by phone or in person for other matters. Please also be aware that I do not maintain 24 hour access to e-mail accounts, and e-mail is only checked intermittently during business hours.

Welcome to the fall quarter 2019!

Stop by the Atrium in CSE1 to pick up a Google cookie and say hi to a couple of our alum Googlers!! The team plans to stick around until 1 pm – or until the cookies run out.

Cookies are going quickly!

———- Forwarded message ———
From: Hank Levy <levy@cs.washington.edu>
Date: Tue, May 21, 2019 at 12:05 PM
Subject: THURSDAY 1:30: Symposium on Machine Learning for Protein Design

The UW Institute for Protein Design (IPD) is hosting an afternoon (THIS THURSDAY) of talks by researchers who work in the interdisciplinary field of protein design and machine learning. CSE undergraduate and graduate students who are interested in collaborative research in the protein design field are very welcomed!   Come hear from David Baker (UW Professor and one of the world’s leading experts in protein design) and others about this research and research opportunities.

May 23, 2019, 1:30p – 4:00p

CSE2 (Zillow Commons)

Reception to follow the talks with finger foods and non-alcoholic beverages provided. Mingle with the speakers as well as current members of the Baker lab!

Speakers include:

UW professor and TED speaker David Baker, director of the IPD, who will share how his lab is leveraging decades of biophysical data to create software to design brand new biomolecules that fight cancer, degrade gluten, and act as potent vaccines.

UW Associate Professor Frank DiMaio will describe efforts in developing automated approaches to improve the molecular energy function used in Rosetta, and the development of GPU-enabled versions of basic Rosetta algorithms.

Professor Jinbo Xu, senior fellow at the Computational Institute at the University of Chicago, who will share how his team built one of the best-in-class deep-learning tools for modeling the structure of natural proteins based on information encoded in DNA.

UW PhD student, Nao Hiranuma, who will share his approach to incorporate deep learning techniques to boost the performance of the current refinement protocol in the Rosetta framework.

Thanks!

Hank

Hello CSE!

Interested in running for an officer position for a CSE RSO, but unsure what the difference between all of the organizations are?

Confused about the election process and how they work for each of the RSOs?

Look through our comprehensive election guide and figure out what organizations you’d like to be a part of! If you have any additional questions, feel free to email us.

CSE SAC: csesac@cs.washington.edu
Q++: qpp-officers@cs.washington.edu
ACM: acm-officers@cs.washington.edu
ACM-W: acmw@cs.washington.edu

Thanks,
SAC, Q++, ACM, ACM-W

The Allen School is having another swag sale! Check out the link below to see how you can rep CSE with all-new hoodies, t-shirts and mugs. 

Sale ends on April 26th, and orders will be delivered by finals week. If you select “Pick up at a central location”, there are no shipping costs, and it will be distributed at the CSE building in late May/early June. Otherwise, you can have it shipped directly to you for a fee. Happy shopping!

https://imagesource.ignitecx.com/UWAllenSchoolSpring2019

———- Forwarded message ———
From: Ed Lazowska <lazowska@cs.washington.edu>
Date: Fri, Apr 5, 2019 at 10:00 PM
Subject: [Professional-staff] [Cs-staff] GeekWire Awards
To: Researchers <researchers@cs.washington.edu>, Staff <cs-staff@cs.washington.edu>, Cs-Ugrads <cs-ugrads@cs.washington.edu>

Sportsfans,

I write as a former GeekWire “Geek of the Year” to encourage you to
stuff the ballot box for the GeekWire Awards in favor of Ali Farhadi’s
Xnor.ai, nominated for “AI Innovation of the Year.” Please vote early
and often here:

https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/GeekWireAwards2019Ballot

You might also consider:

Next Tech Titan: Rover, co-founded by our friend Greg Gottesman.

Deal of the Year / Funding: Convoy, whose engineering team is led by
our alum Tim Prouty.

Health Innovation of the Year: KenSci, founded by outstanding UW-T
data scientist Ankur Teredesai.

Lots of other great choices in these and other categories!
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Tl; dr We’ve put up some posters in the CSE2 undergraduate commons for you to stick dots on if you relate to the prompt. There’s also a poster for you to be vulnerable and share a story of failure if you wish. Your input counts, and it could help your peers. It’s anonymous, so go do it!

You’ve probably heard multiple times that failure is a great opportunity and it isn’t something to be afraid or ashamed of. However, CSE has developed a culture of being extremely ambitious, and handling failure among a community of such high-performing peers is particularly difficult. Our high-achieving community can lead to lots of us feeling inadequate and that we don’t belong here. Often in CSE we overhear people talking about their accomplishments, but rarely do we talk about our experiences with failure (and, shocking as it may be, every single one of us has failed at some point). Come break the ice, be vulnerable, and help your peers by showing your fellow CSE classmates that we are not a community of ultra-perfect beings and that we are, in fact, human.

Stay tuned for our upcoming failure and vulnerability panel discussion!

— CSE Student Advisory Council