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Join FIUTS for Take the World to Work Week!
This event includes tours of local businesses and
matching of international students
individually or in small groups with professionals for a
day, offering a rare glimpse
inside U.S. workplaces and professional life.
Take the World to Work Week is scheduled for
January 31 - February 7. Do you have a fascinating
job that you would like to share with an international
student? Could you welcome a group of students for a
tour of your workplace? Are you a student who would
like to visit a local
workplace or spend a half-day with a professional in
your field? Click here to sign up for FIUTS Take The World
to
Work Week.
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The Global Social Entrepreneurship Competition
(GSEC) invites students from around the world-and
across fields of study-to find creative, unorthodox
solutions to problems of poverty in the developing
world. As a leading-edge initiative at the University of
Washington, GSEC seeks to engage creative minds
around the world and across disciplines to encourage
bolder and less conventional business solutions to
global poverty.
Each year the Global Business Center (GBC) invites a
select group of teams to GSEC Week at the University
of Washington Michael G. Foster School of Business.
This year, they are teaming up with FIUTS to offer
these students a unique perspective on the Pacific
Northwest by participating in a FIUTS Homestay!
Students will be placed in local homes as teams for
the nights of February 22 - 27 (teams are generally
made up of 2 - 3 students). Please email Alicia van der Veen
if you are interested in
hosting some of these remarkable young
entrepreneurs!
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Don't miss the FIUTS Winter Community Potluck!
A potluck is a gathering of people where each person brings a dish of food to be shared among the group. Every FIUTS potluck is a wonderful way
to meet FIUTS students, host families,
and other community members, and to enjoy
fabulous
food from around the world! Everyone is invited!
The potluck will be held on
Tuesday, January
27, 2009, at 6 pm, at the UW Waterfront
Activities
Center (WAC).
The WAC is located directly behind Husky
Stadium on Union Bay and the Montlake Cut.
Parking is available in lot E12. PLEASE NOTE: To
park,
enter through Gate 8 and say you are there
for the FIUTS Potluck. Be aware there may be several
other UW
events using the lot that evening, so be sure
to follow these parking instructions carefully!
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FIUTS always receives many beautiful greeting cards
from alumni and friends across the globe, and many
of them include messages and updates.
Pentti and Brigitta Uuspää sent greetings from
Finland and memories of their host families Carol and
Vernel Aitken (1969) and Bob and Betty Brustad
(1971).
They fondly remember the FIUTS office,
then in the Communications Building, and
participating in Orientation Camp, a trip to Eastern
Washington, and the International Show at the Seattle
Center.
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FIUTS welcomed approximately 100 new students to
the UW community this week with social events,
presentations, and activities geared towards helping
them adjust to Seattle and make new friends before
classes begin.
On Saturday, January 3, new students split into teams
to compete in a scavenger hunt for items and
information collected throughout the University District
and Fremont, then the groups enjoyed ice skating at
the Seattle Center.
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Stephen E. Hanson, Herbert J. Ellison Professor of
Political Science, started this week in his new position
of Vice Provost of The UW Office of Global Affairs.
The Office of Global Affairs (OGA) is tasked with
bringing
leadership, strategic coordination, and innovation to
the global dimension of the UW's mission. The OGA
has worked closely with FIUTS on many programs,
and all of us look forward to working with Stephen.
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SOCIETY, EQUALITY AND CHANGE STUDY
TRIP
May 15-26, 2009 "A wonderful immersion into place, culture, and history." - 2008 Study Trip Participant This Bahia Street Study Trip explores race, class,
poverty and society in
Bahia, Brazil. It allows participants to go "inside Bahia"
and experience Salvador through the eyes of its
African-Brazilian majority. Led by Bahia Street co-
founder Rita Conceição, the trip provides extensive
opportunities for conversations about poverty, race,
class, and collaborative ways to work for change
across cultures. The trip is designed to be
educational and fun.
Proceeds support the Bahia Street, a Salvador- and
Seattle-based non-profit that breaks cycles of poverty
through quality education for impoverished girls. Cost
is $1,800 double occupancy (not including air).
For more information, visit
www.bahiastreet.org , email program director Nancy Bacon
or call (206)633-1724.
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At the intersection of the University of Washington and the community, FIUTS inspires lifelong engagement in experiences that build global understanding.
Era Schrepfer
Foundation for International Understanding Through Students (FIUTS)
email:
ed@fiuts.org
phone:
206-543-0736
web:
http://www.fiuts.org
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