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• 1. Diane Venberg  |  June 1st, 2007 at 10:48 pm

  I would like to see a day when the UW stops using non-human animals in their research labs. Many US medical schools have stopped vivisection with live animals; more information on which campuses have embraced humen science can be found at www.pcrm.org. Animal experimentation desensitizes students and staff to suffering, costs far more than using alternatives, and of course, inflicts pain and death onto beings who have an inherrent right to live their life without being enslaved and tortured in the name of education.

• 2. Jin  |  June 2nd, 2007 at 11:15 pm

  ‘Innovation on every single step’

  As all of you know, innovation has been leading our contemporary society to the better one.

  Like you said, innovation can be grown by the faculty as well as students at U.W discovering new methods in many areas.
  Apparently some might say we need to look back upon the past with all the reminiscence, but I believe that we have to make ourselves in an effective way to have a competitiveness of innovation. It means more binding partnerships are needed at the moment.

  Not too long from now, we can be a leader of society after graduation. Also more responsibility and obligation come to you at the same time.

  Innovation for tangible assets is a key to succeed. However, mind control such as collaboration with and concern for others must be considered for the first time when we deal with every single step. That makes us see so far more than we used to be

• 3. patrick arnold  |  June 3rd, 2007 at 2:55 pm

  I am always irritated when UW blows its own horn re innovation
  Point One: Every State of the Union hasat least two State Universities…not counting the Territories and Private Institutions. Each of these Universities MUST be innovative to maintain funding. It is a an institutional version of “publish or perish”
  , UW is innovative—but no more than any comparable institution.
  Point Two: To clarify re Medic One—uh, I was a student nurse and EMT in Applachia at the time that Medic One was being assembled here. There was an undertaker and his sons (one son just returned from Vietnam) who used radio communication and Medical Corpsman training to be remote hands for a centralized physician. Medic One may have been the first organized fire department related paramedic unit. But the overall concept was being developed throughout the United States.
  Point Three: A sore spot with me is that I am trying to break through a barrier on grants assistance. UW HAS grants. But it is doled out to Grads, Ph.ds and MDs. This is the era of homebased businesses and personal entrerprises. But UW idea of giving Grants come from the “Our Miss Brooks” radio program era. I just came back from Canada. For the last three years I have ben trying to work on research on non-mainstream movement between Seattle and Victoria. One idea was commuting by connections from Seattle to Vancouver by city and county bus service. Which allows bicycles as oppossed to Tailways or Greyhound. I am too late for the grant now. The idea has caught on. Now the bus services need more routes with more bicycle capability so we don’t bump each other off. pa

• 4. Edwin Loftus  |  June 4th, 2007 at 10:58 am

  I think it’s time for the University to show its innovative spirit by bucking the old morally and intellectually bankrupt dictatorship of Political Correctness that has gripped this institution in a strangle-hold for thirty years.
  - All human beings should be protected against discrimination, harassment and abuse, not just those labeled as minorities or other “protected classes.”
  - Freedom of assembly and speech ought to be protected for all points of view that refrain from abuse, vulgarity and advocating violence, not just the far-left and their sympathizers.
  - All religions and other ontological views ought to receive respect and attention, not just those that contradict the dominant, Anglo/European-Christian tradition.
  - The freedom to associate based on conscience should be protected. Political Conservatives should feel just as safe to express their preferences as Liberals and Republicans should feel no more fear of ostracism and retribution than Democrats.

  When I asked one of Human Resource’s senior staff trainers if the UW was as concerned about my protection from discrimination as a White male as they were about the rights of racial minorities and women, the answer she gave was a clear and emphatic, “No, it’s not.”

  It is sad to say that the protection of the basic right to be treated fairly, based, not on some accident of birth, but on the nature of our actions and the content of our character would be an innovation at the UW.

• 5. Dana Miller  |  June 4th, 2007 at 11:38 am

  It appears the current UW administration is taking steps to break down departmental informational barriers with the creation of the Office of Information Management (OIM). This is a good first step to create information systems that serve customer needs and are not bounded by a particular department.

  There also needs be a mechanism to transfer the flow of ideas and innovation from academia into how the university is actually run day to day. Why incubate academic ideas for industry when there is the possibility to test new ideas right here on campus? There needs to be greater information exchange between the classrooms, labs and the offices that actually make the UW run.

• 6. Helen Powell  |  June 4th, 2007 at 4:04 pm

  Discovery is important to the University community, but I would like to point out that when discovery and innovation are mentioned, the conversation refers to “faculty and students” and leaves out the important reference to contributions, innovations, and discoveries made by staff members. To feel fully included in the mission and values of the University I would like to see staff included when innovations are mentioned.

• 7. Susan Yantis  |  June 7th, 2007 at 8:19 am

  Discovery & Innovation
  Here are my two cents re discovery/innovation at the UW:
  1. The more things are shared/communicated, the higher the chances for discovery & innovation. This provides a basis for growth and lessens the chances of redundancy/reinventing the wheel
  2. Discovery/innovation develops from multiple levels, not top down. This means everyone has a part to contribute, and the more levels involved the greater the chance of true innovations
  The UW has some helpful E-learning classes (through POD/Staff Training & Dev) which address how to create work environments that are especially conducive to innovation and creativity. The website for E-learning is:
  http://www.washington.edu/admin/hr/pod/elearning/index.html
  Some E-learning courses that address innovation/creativity include –
  • Brainstorming and Promoting Creative Thinking PD0202
  • Breakthrough Innovation PD0223
  • Breakthrough Motivation PD0225
  • Creativity and Innovation in the Workplace Simulation PD0030
  • Enabling Breakthrough Creativity PD0224
  • Generating Creative and Innovative Ideas PD0032
  • The Foundations of Creativity and Innovation PD0031

• 8. Keiko Yokota-Carter  |  June 15th, 2007 at 10:10 am

  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.

• 9. Jevin West  |  July 2nd, 2007 at 11:19 am

  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.

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