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Student Members

CREATE student members are University of Washington students who are interested in a facet of accessibility: research, education, or translation-to-practice.

Student members receive announcements and invitations for public events such as seminars and talks, network with the CREATE community through the UW CREATE students Slack channel, and are eligible for CREATE Student Minigrants.

How to get involved

Code of Conduct

STEP 1

All contributors to CREATE’s online and in-person activities agree to follow this code of conduct.

Email Lists

STEP 2

Receive CREATE newsletters, event announcements, and opportunities.

Slack Group

STEP 3

Connect with other CREATE members and share ideas and resources.

To learn about: Consider these programs: Get started:
Adaptive engineering design, hands-on adaptive making, and to connect with other students HuskyAdapt: student-run group that learns about adaptive engineering design and creates adaptive toys that are distributed to the community. Apply in October-November
Research Experience for Undergrads (REU) DUB REU (may need to correct year in url) Apply in January
Computing research and education CRA-WP DREU: awards, scholarships and programs for undergrad and graduate students from underrepresented communities Apply in March
Mentorship, internships, opportunities in computing fields UW AccessComputing ongoing
Academics Accessibility courses at the UW Fall, Winter, and Spring quarters
Networking, advocacy, accessibility learning Teach Access student programs for networking with higher education, industry, and advocacy organizations while learning about accessibility ongoing

A purple-tinted collage of UW students working with adults with various mobility and communication disabilities to develop tools to improve their function.
UW students work with adults with mobility and communication disabilities to develop tools for better access.

STUDENT NEWS


  • CREATE at ASSETS 2024: Papers & Workshops

    September 25, 2024 CREATE faculty, students and alumni will have a large presence at the 2024 ASSETS Conference. It’ll be quiet on campus the week of October 28 with these folks in the Canadian province of Newfoundland and Labrador. If we missed any CREATE research, please email Liz Diether-Martin with the details. Awards ASSETS 2024 Best…

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  • CREATE researchers find ChatGPT biased against resumes that imply disability, models improvement

    June 24, 2024 Generative Artificial Intelligence (GAI) tools can be useful and help people meet currently unaddressed access needs, but we need to acknowledge that risks such as bias exist, and be proactive as a field in finding accessible ways to validate GAI outputs. This is the takeaway from CREATE Ph.D. student Kate Glazko, who…

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  • Gatzert Child Welfare Fellowship for Reham Abuatiq

    June 13, 2024 Congratulations to CREATE Ph.D. student Reham Abuatiq, who has received the 2024 Gatzert Child Welfare Fellowship, which will fully fund her for one quarter for her dissertation writing phase!  Advised by CREATE associate director Heather Feldner, Abuatiq's dissertation work explores the Healthcare Transition of Middle Eastern Youth with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities and…

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  • Congrats to CREATE's Graduating Ph.D. Students 2024!

    May 30, 2024 Four of CREATE's influential and productive doctoral students are graduating this spring. Please join us in congratulating Kelly Avery Mack, Emma McDonnell, Venkatesh Potluri, Ather Sharif, and Rachel Franz and wishing them well. Profiles Kelly Avery Mack Kelly Avery Mack received their Ph.D. from the Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science…

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  • CREATE Students Honored in Husky100

    Two students selected for the 2024 Husky 100 exemplify CREATE's mission to make technology accessible and make the world accessible through technology while involving people with lived disability experiences in their research. Kianna Bolante Kianna Bolante is an undergraduate student studying computer science who has deepened her understanding of accessibility needs and computing education research…

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