In partnership with the Campus Sustainability Fund, the Resilience Lab awards Resilience and Compassion Seed Grants to support projects that cultivate resilience, compassion, and sustainability at the UW. To date, over $118,000 has been disbursed to fund impactful activities, programs, and applied research led by students, faculty, and staff across all three campuses. The 2021-2022 Resilience and Compassion Seed Grant application cycle is now closed, and we’ll be sharing more about our 2021-2022 grant recipients over the coming weeks.
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Meet Our New Seed Grant Coordinator
I am a senior at the University of Washington majoring in Psychology and Education, Communities and Organizations (ECO). I am grateful to join the UW Resilience Lab as a Seed Grant Coordinator. Having been an international student for 3 years, I constantly explore the various disciplines and fields, from STEM to humanity, to broaden my own academic pursuits and personal potentials, integrating a cross-cultural background with comparative comprehension in education and self-driven interests in psychology. Contributing to my community means a lot to me, which brought me the courage and empowered me to keep learning and practicing in multiple student organizations, K-12 schools, psychotherapy clinics as a volunteer, tutor, SEL intern, and counselor & mentor. My current area of interest and exploration is helping to facilitate emotional resilience among UW international students by applying the knowledge I learned, and this is the reason I am being here.
Recaps:
Winter 2021 Grant Writing Workshop
In February 2021, the Resilience Lab and Campus Sustainability Fund held a workshop aimed at building participants’ grant writing skills and providing information about funding opportunities available at the UW. This workshop included an overview of the seed grant program and the support it offers to students, staff, and instructors as they work to hone their skills, create impactful projects, and develop as leaders and professionals. It also provided participants with an opportunity to network and learn new ways to promote resilience, compassion, and sustainability through projects that align with their passions. A recording of the workshop will be posted here soon.
Summer 2020 BIPOC Seed Grants: Intersectional Sustainability – Imagining Solutions to Racial and Environmental Injustices
Recent events have drawn attention to undeniable racial disparities in police violence and COVID-19 response. The movements rising up to combat these and other injustices have worked to center intersectionality when thinking about what social and environmental sustainability means. With that in mind, in 2020, the Campus Sustainability Fund and Resilience Lab issued a call for proposals for projects that would educate the UW community and spark dialogue. The selected grantees proposed solutions to environmental and societal problems that disproportionately impact Black, Brown, and Indigenous communities. Each recipient was awarded a grant of up to $3000.
List of past seed grant recipients
2020-2021 Seed Grant Recipients
PHE- Sending Gratitude Across the Globe
Project Leads: UW LiveWell Peer Health Educators
Applied Learning that Supports Growth of Transfer Students During COVID-19
Project Lead: Katie Kovach, Center for Experiential Learning and Diversity
Compassion, Awareness, Resilience and Empowerment Training for UW Medicine Frontline Women
Project Leads: Lauren Updyke, The Whole U
Whipping Up Resilience in the Kitchen
Project Lead: Anne-Marie Gloster, PhD Nutritional Sciences Program
The Komorebi Project
Project Leads: Krandhasi Kodaiarasu, UW CSSC
EOP Scholars Academy Resilience Projects
Project Leads: UW Study Abroad
Resilience through Virtual Mindfulness
Project Lead: Kosuke Niitsu, PhD, Assistant Professor, University of Washington Bothel
Mental Health for Every Adolescent: An initiative to Spread About and De-stigmatize Mental Health Issues
Project Leads: Sairandri Sathyanarayanan, Undergraduate Molecular Biology
Huskies First: 1st Gen Student Access Stories
Project Lead: Joslin Boroughs, Undergraduate Academic Affairs Advising
Deep Collectivity: Towards a Commons in Marine Affairs scholarship and Practice
Project Lead: The Diversity Forum, School of Marine and Environmental Affairs
Sustained Dialogue Institute: Leadership Through Sustained Dialogue
Projects Lead: Jay Cunningham, PhD Candidate, Human Center Design & Engineering
2019-2020 Seed Grant Recipients
Creating a Climate Heat Map: Finding Equitable and Inclusive Spaces on Campus
Project lead: Kaleb Germinaro, Ph.D. Candidate, College of Education, Seattle
A Retreat to Build Faculty Capacity for Mindful Leadership
Project lead: Anthony Back, Professor, School of Medicine, Oncology, Seattle
Many Voices: A Storytelling Toolkit for Community-Based Oral History Projects
Project lead: Dillion Connelly, Masters Student, Art of Museology, Seattle
Resilience and Compassion @ Odegaard Pop up Events
Project lead: Emilie Vrbancic, Undergraduate Experience Library, Odegaard Library, Seattle
Making Space in Higher Education- Diversity, Inclusion, and More
Project Lead: Erica Mallet, Ph.D. Candidate, Educational Policy, Organizations, and Leadership
Telling Our Stories at Neah Bay Elementary
Project lead: Christine Stickler, Director, UW Pipeline Project, Undergraduate Academic Affairs, Center for Experiential Learning, Seattle
Darn it! A mobile clothing repair and experience across UW Campuses
Project lead: Coreen Callister, Graduate student, Interaction Design< Division of Design, School of Art, Art History + Design, Seattle
Raising Resilience: Connecting compassion and well-being with systems-based pedagogy in the College of the Built Environment
Project lead: Julie Johnson, Associate Professor, Landscape Architecture, Seattle
Diversity Includes Disability
Project lead: Sheryl Burgstahler, Director, Accessible Technology Services- Accessible Technology Services, Seattle
Building Resilience for Teaching at UW
Project lead: Christine Sugatan, Program Administrator, Center for Teaching and Learning, Seattle
Women in Applied Math Mentoring Program
Project lead: The Diversity Committee, The Department of Applied Mathematics, Seattle
Resilience and Urban in Public Writing Partnerships
Project lead: Candace Rai, Associate Professor and Director of the Expository Writing Program, Department of English, Seattle
Fostering Self-Compassion in the Transition to College: Developing Resources for Parents
Project lead: Emily Kroshus, Assistant Professor, Department of Pediatrics, School of Public Health, Department of Health Services, Seattle
Queer and Trans People of Color: Healing in the Outdoors
Project lead: Reb Zhou, Student, Q Center, Community Environment and Planning, Seattle
Health and Wellness at the Q Center
Project lead: Jen Self, Director, Q Center, Seattle
Trauma Informed Mindfulness Training
Project Lead: Megan Kennedy, Interim Student Assistant to the Vice President of Student Life-Student Life, Seattle
Women of Color in Global Health: Building Resilience and Community
Project Lead: Diem Nguyen, MPH Candidate, Department of Global Health, Seattle
Capillaries: The Journal of Narrative Medicine
Project Lead: Alice Ranjan, Student, Health Sciences Learning and Advocacy Group, Seattle
Indigenizing Urban Seattle Podcast
Project Lead: Jessica Hernandez, Ph.D. Candidate, School of Environmental and Forest Services, Seattle
Sustaining Fierce Compassion
Project Lead: Lauren Litchy, Assistant Professor, School of Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences, Bothell
2018-2019 Seed Grant Recipients
A Pilot Study of Search Inside Yourself for UW Faculty and Staff
Project Lead: Anthony Back, Professor — School of Medicine, Seattle
CARE Training to Prevent Burnout and Improve Well-Being at the Center for Equity and Inclusion
Project Lead: Jane Compson, Associate Professor, Politics — Philosophy and Public Affairs, School of Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences, Tacoma
Changing the Culture of the University: Beginning Within
Project Lead: Kelly Edwards, Associate Dean — Student and Postdoctoral Affairs in the Graduate School; Professor — Department of Bioethics and Humanities, School of Medicine, Seattle
Cultivating Compassion and Resilience through Mindful Inquiry
Project Lead: Anil Coumar, Clinical Assistant Professor — Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, School of Medicine, Seattle
Engaging Students in Creating Inclusive, Welcoming and Connected Learning Environments
Project Lead: Sujata Pradhan, Associate Professor — Rehabilitation Medicine, School of Medicine, Seattle
Knit for Nice
Project Lead: Alyssa Taylor, Senior Lecturer — Bioengineering, College of Engineering and School of Medicine, Seattle
Map of Restorative Spaces on UW Seattle’s Campus
Project Lead: Beck Tench, Ph.D. Student — The Information School
The Resiliency Collective
Project Lead: Marissa Jackson, Master of Public Health student — School of Public Health, Seattle
Building Compassion and Promoting Burnout Recovery Through Resident Team Reflection
Project Lead: Michelle Lam, Resident Physician — School of Medicine, Seattle
Resilience and Compassion Podcast Series
Project Lead: Gregory Heller, Adviser, Senior Associate Director, MBA Career Management — Foster School of Business, Seattle
Self-Care is Revolutionary
Project Lead: Jen Balkus, Assistant Professor — Department of Epidemiology, School of Medicine, Seattle
Starting the Year off Right: Cultivating Community in the Epidemiology Department
Project Lead: Alice Pederson, Lecturer — School of Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences, Bothell
Trauma Informed Yoga
Project Lead: Brittany Bowhall, Student Advocate for Sexual Assault, Relationship Violence, Stalking, and Harassment — Health and Wellness, Division of Student Life, Seattle
What Compassion Looks Like: Journaling for Self-Kindness
Project Lead: Jennifer Best, Associate Professor — General Internal Medicine, School of Medicine, and Jennifer Zumsteg, Assistant Professor, General Internal Medicine, School of Medicine, Seattle
The Whole U Summer Wellness Challenge
Project Lead: Lauren Updyke, Assistant Director — The Whole U, Bothell, Seattle and Tacoma
