Events

Grad Student Happy Hour

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Fri., Mar. 15, 2013 | 5 – 8 pm
FREE with UW ID ($1 suggested donation for refreshments)

For UW graduate students. Faculty welcome with graduate students and post docs.
Must be 21 and have valid ID to consume alcoholic beverages

The Burke offers a special night for UW graduate students and faculty to meet and mingle. Discuss your work and explore the resources the Burke Museum offers to UW students. Activities include:

• Take part in FOSEP's 1,000 word challenge!
• Enjoy complimentary beer and wine
• Tour the exhibit Plastics Unwrapped and make a plastic sea creature
• Get a peek at lizard and amphibian research and see Burke herpetology specimens
• Learn about the new Young Naturalists Society
• Celebrate the last day of winter quarter and meet fellow grad students

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Grad Happy Hour is presented by the Burke Museum & the Forum on Science Ethics and Policy (FOSEP).

About the 1,000 Word Challenge:

Can you describe your research using only the 1,000 most commonly used words in the English Language? Can you do it better than your lab partner? Enter the 1,000 Word Challenge, and find out! Grand prize is a $100 gift card for the UW Bookstore! Click here to submit your entry.

Three judges will evaluate your submission and prizes will be awarded for: most concise, most creative, and best overall. You must be present to win.

Need help translating your research? Use this 1000 word text editor.