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• 1. Gray Kochhar-Lindgren  |  June 15th, 2007 at 7:08 am

  For us here at UW Bothell, the initial session on “Discovery” links directly to the last installment on the “Academic Community.” Our first freshmen have just completed their year-long Discovery Core of integrated learning culminating in a portfolio experience. They are now much clearer about the hard work and play that an academic community entails, and we, as faculty, are much clearer about how best to infold the first year students into that community, how best to teach them and to learn from them. This is, in my view, the opening to the wonder that Plato claims as the basis of all knowledge.

• 2. Rick Ells  |  June 15th, 2007 at 8:12 am

  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.

• 3. Nancy Rauhauser  |  June 15th, 2007 at 10:43 am

  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.

• 4. Mara  |  June 15th, 2007 at 6:37 pm

  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.

• 5. Ellen Kuwana  |  June 18th, 2007 at 11:02 am

  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.

• 6. Andrew Tsao  |  June 18th, 2007 at 8:32 pm

  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.

• 7. Farley Dahl  |  June 25th, 2007 at 12:33 pm

  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.

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