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GWupstart Social Innovation Design Workshops

The GWupstart program at the Honey W. Nashman Center for Civic Engagement & Public Service presents the fall social innovation design workshops. These virtual workshops will focus on designing creative solutions to address the specific social issue for that session. Every session will cover the following: 

GWIKS Interview Series with Wendy Cutler (ESIA BA ’79)

Please join the GW Institute for Korean Studies (GWIKS) for a live interview with Wendy Cutler,Vice President of the Asia Society Policy Institute (ASPI). This event is part of our interview series with prominent GW alumni working in the policy fields. As a former top U.S. trade negotiator, Wendy Cutler will provide her views on the new challenges for trade and investment in the Asia-Pacific region.

GW OIE Speaker Series: A Conversation with Roland W. Schumann III (MSc '97)

The GW Office of Innovation & Entrepreneurship Speaker Series presents: A Conversation with Roland W. Schumann III (MSc '97), President of Sierra Angels. Join us this afternoon to speak with an experienced GW alumni entrepreneur and hear about his experiences as an angel investor and other conversation topics such as:

Delta Phi Epsilon Professional Foreign Service Fraternity: Climate Change and International Security

In a world of rising sea levels, intensifying natural disasters and worsening ecological crises,  often overlooked is climate change’s attendant impact on international security’s encompassing matters of energy politics, as well as transnational migration and conflict. 

Civic Leadership Dialogue

What is civic identity? How do you build it? This workshop will examine space/placed based identity and group identity in civic engagement.

Cold War Cosmopolitanism: Period Style in 1950s Korean Cinema

South Korea in the 1950s was home to a burgeoning film culture, one of the many “Golden Age cinemas” that flourished in Asia during the postwar years. Cold War Cosmopolitanism offers a transnational cultural history of South Korean film style in this period, focusing on the works of Han Hyung-mo, director of the era’s most glamorous and popular women’s pictures, including the blockbuster Madame Freedom (1956).

Using SciFinder Scholar for Literature Reviews

The GW Department of Chemistry Presents: Using SciFinder Scholar for Literature Reviews Webinar

Featuring: Margaret Grow-Sadler, Chemical Abstracts Service

GW Day of the Dead

Hosted by Phillip Troutman, Assistant Professor of Writing and of History, GW Working Group on Slavery and Its Legacies

Moderator: Rachel Riedner, Associate Dean of Undergraduate Studies

Biology Seminar

Please join us in our weekly Biology Seminars followed by a reception!

Zoom Meeting Link: https://gwu-edu.zoom.us/j/3190422241

Meeting ID: 319 042 2241

Mobile App Design and Management Workshop

Do you have an idea for an app, but don’t know where to start? The GW Office of Innovation and Entrepreneurship is hosting this year’s second Mobile App Design and Management Workshop.

Covering the Surface: The Inclusion of Ocean and Environmental Issues in International Affairs Dialogues

Oceans cover roughly 71% percent of the earth's surface. Whether we see it or not, the ocean and environment impact each of our lives every single day and are inherently linked to the survival of our communities.  The ocean is also greatly impacted by the increasingly destructive consequences of climate change and large-scale pollution.

Leadership Challenges in Addressing Climate Change Across the Public, Private, and Academic Sectors

Addressing climate change requires urgent action from every sector of society, including government, industry, and civil society. Leadership will be critical to marshal each sector to bring its unique capabilities and perspectives to bear.

In Conversation: Female Entrepreneurship During a Pandemic

How often do you find yourself wanting to start a business whether out of boredom or entrepreneurial interest? Are you someone who has an idea or a passion for starting a business but don’t know where to begin? Has the current global pandemic affected your plans for starting or continuing your business?

Hackathon: Design the Next NEW Workplace Innovation

In partnership with Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM), the GW Office of Innovation & Entrepreneurship is looking for solutions that make work better for everyone.

Dates and Time (Must attend both sessions!)

Biology Seminar

Please join us in our weekly Biology Seminars followed by a reception!

Zoom Meeting Link: https://gwu-edu.zoom.us/j/3190422241

Zoom Meeting ID: 319 042 2241

Civic Leadership Dialogue

This workshop will discuss the Social Change Model of Leadership and demonstrate how to apply the "7 C's" of leadership development for social change.

Special Duty with author Richard Samuels

Intelligence communities are everywhere and always in motion. Japan's has been no exception, often shifting in response to dramatic analytical and organizational failures, changes in the regional and global balance, and sudden technological developments. In the first half of the 20th century, Japan had a full spectrum intelligence apparatus. This came apart with defeat in WWII and subordination to the United States.

GW Summer Startup Accelerator Info Session

Are you a GW student or recent alumni looking to move your startup venture forward? Want to learn from the experts on how to make your venture a more “fundable” business? Look no more!

Introduction to Lean Innovation

Making the world a better place is a messy prospect. However, innovators, whether directing groundbreaking research, designing new products, empowering communities or building new startup businesses, all must take similar first steps to be successful: knowing who one is helping, how and why help is needed and how a proposed solution might benefit its intended recipients. This is a challenging, but critical, first step to take.

Making the Unconscious Conscious: Exploring and Addressing Our Biases as Faculty Members in Order to Work Towards Building the Most Inclusive Department

The Department of Chemistry Presents, via Webinar:  Making the Unconscious Conscious: Exploring and addressing Our Biases as Faculty Members in Order to Work Towards Building the Most Inclusive Department

Featuring: Jordan West, Director of University Diversity and Inclusion Programs, GW

The Survival of the Chosŏn Dynasty in the Imjin War (1592-98) and the Issue of Governance

Within three weeks of the invasion, the Japanese took Hansŏng, the capital of Chosŏn, and King Sŏnjo fled to the north. Japan’s sudden invasion dealt a blow of life or death to the dynasty King Sŏnjo had inherited. Seven years later, Japan’s invader regime gave up the war without achieving anything and, two years later, it collapsed. Ming China which sent a rescue force to Korea suffered heavy casualties and financial losses.

Biology Seminar

Please join us in our weekly seminars followed by a reception. 

ZOOM MEETING LINK: https://gwu-edu.zoom.us/j/3432704578

ZOOM MEETING ID: 343 270 4578

Civic Leadership Dialogue

Advocates and leaders know that leadership and social change require effective advocacy. Does that advocacy come with ethical considerations? Does how you make the case matter as much as the case you're making? Join Peter Loge for a discussion about what, if any, ethical responsibility you have as a communicator. 

Biology Seminar

Please join us in our weekly seminars followed by a reception. 

ZOOM MEETING LINK: https://gwu-edu.zoom.us/j/3432704578 

ZOOM MEETING ID: 343 270 4578