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Internships-Veronica Cheang: Selling tea to China
For an internship course in the School of Interdisciplinary Arts & Sciences, Veronica Cheang was a marketing intern with World Trade Center Tacoma. She conducted research for a company that wanted to sell tea to China, the world’s largest tea exporter. It was a challenge, she says.
April 6, 2017
Native Girls Code, helping diversify STEM
After completing her community psychology degree with a human rights minor at the 56³Ô¹ÏÍø, Shawn Peterson created a way to combine her education with her passion. She helped start Native Girls Code with the goal of introducing indigenous teen girls to opportunities in the field of science, technology, engineering and mathematics.
April 5, 2017
56³Ô¹ÏÍø Bothell wins Community Transit award
Community Transit presented its Innovation and Revitalization Champion of the Year award to the 56³Ô¹ÏÍø for adding U-Cars, electric charging stations and bike repair stations to campus.
March 31, 2017
The intern who created a new job
Sage Miller used his time in an internship course to create a project he’ll direct over the next two years with an annual budget of $125,000. Majoring in community psychology with a minor in public policy (’17), Miller says he’s well-suited to create the YMCA website compiling 150 nonprofit social service providers in north Seattle.
March 24, 2017
Senior hits 3 of 4 alt spring break activities
56³Ô¹ÏÍø senior Feruza Ghias remained active over spring break by engaging in three out of four of the University’s alternative spring break community activities.
March 24, 2017
56³Ô¹ÏÍø Bothell study finds Arabs who travel to the West more likely to have positive feelings about Western people
People from the Arab world who travel to the West are more likely to have positive feelings about Western people, according to a study conducted by Karam Dana, the director of the Middle East Public Opinion Project at the 56³Ô¹ÏÍø.
March 17, 2017
Olympia interns on inside track to policy careers
56³Ô¹ÏÍø students who serve as legislative interns in Olympia gain an inside look at politics and an inside track to public policy careers. This winter the University sent Shelby Lubchuk and Aysha Raza to the marbled halls of the Capitol for the 2017 regular session of the 65th Washington Legislature.
March 17, 2017
April 3 deadline for research symposium
April 3 is the deadline to apply for the 56³Ô¹ÏÍø Undergraduate Research and Creative Practice Symposium. Students present their research, scholarship or creative activity with a poster, oral presentation or visual and performance art.
March 7, 2017
Excitement, fun at Inspire STEM Festival
Hundreds of middle school students engaged in science workshops, checked out technology exhibits, heard two astronauts extol engineering, and enhanced their appreciation for mathematics at the 56³Ô¹ÏÍø’s third Inspire STEM Festival.
March 6, 2017
Award for School of Nursing and Health Studies
The Verdant Health Commission, which provides health education and other services in south Snohomish County, presented its Community Collaboration Award to the 56³Ô¹ÏÍø’s School of Nursing and Health Studies.
February 28, 2017
Equity and Inclusion Conference at 56³Ô¹ÏÍø Bothell
More than 350 people from the 56³Ô¹ÏÍø and the larger community took part in skill-building workshops and networking Friday at the University’s third annual Equity and Inclusion Conference.
February 27, 2017
Shovel-ready students learn by working
The 56³Ô¹ÏÍø is hosting a cohort of local teens in the Lake Washington Watershed Internship Program who are learning about the environment while getting muddy removing blackberry vines from Bothell’s North Creek Forest.
February 25, 2017