The Simpson Center offers a variety of courses at the graduate level that reflect its commitments to crossdisciplinary research, digital humanities and public scholarship.
brings together faculty and graduate students in the social sciences and humanities with scientists from the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center to understand the growing worldwide use of biological knowledge to manipulate and build living systems.
The Certificate in Public Scholarship brings together a crossdisciplinary cohort of UW graduate students and faculty interested in public scholarship, campus-community partnerships, community-engaged research, digital and multimedia publication, and profession development for careers inside or outside of higher education.
Beginning in 2014, the Simpson Center will offer annual summer fellowships for faculty and doctoral students to pursue research projects that either use the affordances of the new digital technologies or explore the historical, social, and cross-cultural implications of digital cultures. Inspired by the value of open access, this annual program is called the Digital Humanities Commons
Public scholarship refers to diverse modes of creating and circulating knowledge for and with publics and communities. It often involves mutually-beneficial partnerships between higher education and organizations in the public and private sectors.