Comments for UW Vision Blog

Comment on Our role as World Citizens by Guntis Smidchens

Sat, 09 Feb 2008 03:08:00 +0000

The UW also excels in the study of foreign languages and cultures– This is a critical component of our attempts to make the world a better place.

Comment on Growing and sustaining innovation by Jevin West

Mon, 02 Jul 2007 19:19:52 +0000

As a graduate student involved with the Huckabay program, I was able to experience innovation both as a student and as a teacher. As a student, the innovation came from my weekly meetings with my mentors. As a teacher, the innovation came from the freedom I had to design a brand new course. This not only involved innovation, but required it. When I think of innovation here at UW, I think of programs like the Huckabay.

Comment on Academic Community by Farley Dahl

Mon, 25 Jun 2007 20:33:49 +0000

As a 3 yr extension student who is looking for a Master’s in Medical Engineering, I would like to see innovation and collaboration in the very strict yet arbitrary rules that the College of Engineering(Bioengineering), the Graduate school and UW Extension push on students. Rules that do not matter shouldn’t prevent hard working students from obtaining higher degrees. Finger pointing is more of the norm, instead of solutions. Cross-college/department collaboration seems very weak or non-existent.

Comment on Academic Community by Andrew Tsao

Tue, 19 Jun 2007 04:32:28 +0000

As a new member of the School of Drama faculty, I am particularly interested in how the performing arts might fit into the notions of discovery, research, innovation and community.

I look forward to meeting and talking to other departments and faculty to see how drama can serve the UW community.

Narratives, whether conveyed live onstage or on other media such as film, television or the internet have a great deal of potential for galvanizing audiences.

As I said to Provost Wise when she visited a School of Drama faculty meeting: “Think of the School of Drama as the “software” (creative ideas) by which a lot of UW “hardware” (infrastruture) might benefit.

To that end, our UW Communities Theatre Project is one example of UW Drama helpling build and define community. Another example is a project I will serve as advisor on. A Ph.D student in DXArts is developing new internet-based digital communications tools that will link global participants with local actors onstage in real time.

Looking ahead at how living narratives function to enrich lives in the 21st century is something we at UW Drama take pride in.

Comment on Academic Community by Ellen Kuwana

Mon, 18 Jun 2007 19:02:55 +0000

The video touches on many of the aspects that make the UW such a fantastic place to work, and a resource for all interested in learning. As a project manager for a training CD-ROM, Spirometry Fundamentals, which teaches health professionals how to administer and interpret lung function testing, I appreciate the wealth of expertise at UW (medical, marketing, Tech Transfer, computer science) that have contributed to the success of this CD-ROM.

Comment on Academic Community by Mara

Sat, 16 Jun 2007 02:37:41 +0000

I watched the video and I have to say that I was disappointed with the lack of attention placed on liberal arts. One of the biggest problems with my undergraduate experience has been the lack of support and appreciation for liberal art studies. I was so disappointed in fact that I am transferring next year to a school which can provide that solid foundation. Appreciating UW goes beyond the research and sciences. There is a lot to be said for Philosophy, English, Africa American Studies, Anthropology, Political Science, and Music. There are some amazing undergraduate students in those, as well as other, liberal art departments. Please give them the recognition they deserve. Thank you.

Comment on Academic Community by Nancy Rauhauser

Fri, 15 Jun 2007 18:43:06 +0000

Your video presentations describe aspects of UW that make me proud and grateful to work here. Thank you for helping staff to see past their own small part of the big picture.

Comment on Growing and sustaining innovation by Keiko Yokota-Carter

Fri, 15 Jun 2007 18:10:18 +0000

I am librarian. I liked the presentation by Provost Wise, and I appreciate her earnest support to upgrade the UW Libraries as a whole. It is hard to include everything in a short presentation, but without library support, noone can achieve academic excellency.

I would like to share that UW Libraries recieved the Excellency Award as a research library; Dean Wilson of the UW Libraries was awarded as the Librarian of the Year Award by the Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL). We recieve a lot of librarian visitors from all over the world to learn our service. We are recognized as a world top class research library.

UW Libraries offers to undergraduate students “Library Research Award” http://www.lib.washington.edu/researchaward/.
Librarians are committed to support teaching, research, and discoveries, yet our efforts may not be well known to the UW community. I hope in your next TV presentation you will include how unique, how innovative, the UW Libraries are as a part of the UW efforst in promoting teaching, research, and discoveries. We would like to work more closely with faculty and the UW administrators to promte the mission of the UW. Thank you very much.

Comment on Celebrating Place at the UW by Margaret Spillers

Fri, 15 Jun 2007 17:59:03 +0000

We are approaching the centennial anniversary of the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition which took place here on campus in 1909. The campus landscape was transformed for this world’s fair, and some of the landmarks remain today. I hope the University of Washington is considering some campus events to celebrate the centennial and encourage anyone interested to take a look at the information and photographs available at http://www.lib.washington.edu/specialcoll/exhibits/ayp/.

Comment on Academic Community by Rick Ells

Fri, 15 Jun 2007 16:12:13 +0000

At the recent Undergraduate Research Symposium I had an opportunity to talk with several of the students about their projects. Each described how they negotiated a project with their instructor, were provided with data to analyze, and conducted their study. It was delightful to see their fascination with their subject matter and their pride in their own work. The discussions made me think about how we could better support and facilitate the overall process of student research. Can the process of exploring and selecting data be made more transparent to help students better understand the nature of research data? Can we build “peer contexts” for students to work in (hopefully linked to professional peer communities in their field) giving them a taste of the interactions and energy of many people working in a common field? How can we learn to use the technical gadgetry available to us, from wikis to blogs to Web sites, to foster effective education and valid research? Big questions. It is exciting to see so much effort being made to make the UW a place of Discovery.