Fulbright U.S. Student Program – 2 More UW Information Sessions (05/20/13 and 06/25/13)

Are you currently a junior, senior, graduate or professional student or a recent bachelor’s, master’s or JD graduatelooking for a fully-funded abroad experience during the 2014-15 academic year? Consider the Fulbright U.S. Student Program. This program is designed to give students, artists, and other professionals opportunities to pursue research, graduate study or English teaching experience in over 155 nations worldwide.

The application cycle for the 2014-2015 Fulbright U.S. Student competition opened on May 1, 2013. The campus deadline for applications is September 10, 2013.

Talk: “Deaf – Proud and Loud: Disabling the Disabled Model” – 05/30/13, 12:00PM – South Puget Sound Community College, Lecture Hall, 26-105

16th Annual Undergraduate Research Symposium This Friday! (05/17/13)

The 16th Annual Undergraduate Research Symposium will be held this Friday, 11am-6pm in Mary Gates Hall.  The Undergraduate Research Symposium is one of the largest showcases of undergraduate research in the country.  A full schedule and abstracts can be found in the Online Proceedings (https://expo.uw.edu/expo/apply/278/proceedings).  You can also use that page to generate a list of the Linguistics majors who will be presenting at this year’s event.  Please stop by the symposium this Friday to support your fellow Linguistics majors and congratulate them on their hard work this year.

BULGR 401: Intro Bulgarian Language in Autumn 2013

The Slavic Department is pleased to announce that we will have a Bulgarian Fulbright, Dr. Angel Angelov, teaching courses in Bulgarian language with us next year.

Please tell your majors to consider registering for these exciting and RARE special offerings!

We will be able to offer all three quarters of first year Bulgarian, which will satisfy the university’s foreign language requirement for graduation.

BULGARIAN 401 SLN 11719

FIRST-YEAR BULGARIAN MTWThF 8:30 – 9:20

Instructor: Angelov 5 credits

Introduction to Bulgarian phonology and grammar in terms of the modern spoken language. Writing conventions of literary Bulgarian. First in a sequence of three.

Peace Corps Information Session TOMORROW (05/16/13) 4:00PM

Attention Juniors!
Starting to think about life after graduation?
Interested in having an overseas experience while working to alleviate important issues in the developing world?
Have you considered Peace Corps?

Please join us for our last information session of the year!

Peace Corps Information Session
Thursday, May 16^th
4:00pm-5:30pm
Parrington Hall 108

2 New Tools to Help with Registration and Degree Planning

If you didn’t read this month’s IT Connect News, you may not have heard about 2 new tools that you might find useful:  Notify.UW and MyPlan.

Notify.UW Lets UW Students Know When Courses Have Openings

Want to receive a text message or email when space becomes available in a course during the quarter registration process? A new, free tool called Notify.UW does just that. It’s integrated into the UW Time Schedule and MyUW and will help UW students register for high-demand courses as well as collect valuable information that can be used to adjust course offerings. Watch the “how-to” video and then subscribe. Notify.UW is a collaborative effort of UW-IT and the Office of the University Registrar.

UW Students Get Course Registration Planning Help in MyPlan

UW students can more easily plan for class registration using new features recently added to MyPlan, the online academic planning tool for students and their advisers. Now you can get real-time seat availability for each section and view your plan one quarter at a time, displaying sections from the current Time Schedule that you can easily add or delete. Coming next: Notification of suspended or withdrawn sections, plus the ability to check your plan against degree requirements, including running a degree audit report in MyPlan.

Talk: “Speech Technology and Windows Mobile” – Jay Waltmunson – 05/16/13, 6:00PM

Speech Technology and Windows Mobile
Thursday, May 16, 2013
6:00 PM to 8:30 PM
Johnson 102
University of Washington

Jay Waltmunson from Microsoft will be speaking about the evolution of speech in Windows Phone from WP 7 through WP8. He will share insights on key user pain points, and solutions offered by WP8 and other Microsoft products. Finally, he will demonstrate the WP 8 Speech Developer APIs.

To find out more and RSVP for the event, please visit:
http://www.meetup.com/Seattle-AVIOS-Speech-Technology-Meetup/even! ts/118422012/t/ea1_grp/?rv=ea1

Jay Waltmunson is  in the Online Services Division at Microsoft Corporation. He and his team plan, design, develop, integrate, and maintain natural user interface technologies, speech recognition and synthesis components, and developer platform APIs, included in an increasing number of Microsoft products, including Xbox Kinect, Windows Phone, Microsoft Office, Windows, and Bing.

In conjunction with Seattle AVIOS Speech Technology group.