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
| 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 Away programs for networking with higher education, industry, and advocacy organizations while learning about accessibility | ongoing |
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STUDENT NEWS
CREATE researchers find ChatGPT biased against resumes that imply disability, models improvement
June 24, 2024 While seeking research internships last year, CREATE Ph.D. student Kate Glazko noticed recruiters posting online that they’d used OpenAI's ChatGPT and other artificial intelligence tools to summarize resumes and rank candidates. Advised by co-author and CREATE Director Jennifer Mankoff in the Allen School, Glazko studies how generative AI can replicate and amplify real-world…
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 is exploring the Healthcare Transition of Middle Eastern Youth with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities…
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…
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…
Empowering users with disabilities through customized interfaces for assistive robots
March 15, 2024 For people with severe physical limitations such as quadriplegia, the ability to tele-operate personal assistant robots could bring a life-enhancing level of independence and self-determination. Allen School Ph.D. candidate Vinitha Ranganeni and her advisor, CREATE faculty member Maya Cakmak, have been working to understand and meet the needs of users of assistive…