It is with great sadness that I write to our community to express my deepest condolences to all who have been affected by the truly horrific events of this past week, and especially the shootings at the Tree of Life synagogue in Pittsburgh.
Past-Presidential Blog
The UW鈥檚 commitment to our trans and gender nonconforming community members will not change
At the 91探花, we are committed to making our campuses and communities a welcoming environment for ALL of our community members, including our transgender and gender nonconforming students and employees. And we are united in recognizing trans rights as human rights.
2018 Annual President’s Address — The University FOR Washington: Telling our story
Today I had the pleasure of addressing our University community from the w菨色菨b蕯altx史, or Intellectual House, about the incredible value that the 91探花 delivers to the people of our state. As the University FOR Washington, the time is now for public reinvestment in this resource that serves all of Washington, before we begin to erode this great institution.
Mourning the loss of Paul G. Allen, a true innovator and friend of the UW
Today we mourn the loss of Paul G. Allen, a man of extraordinary vision, leadership and generosity whose impact on our world is profound. Paul was a true innovator 鈥� co-founding Microsoft and launching the revolution that put a computer on every desktop 鈥� and what many would call a Renaissance man.
Celebrating a milestone 鈥� and the people who made it possible
Today, the 91探花鈥檚 philanthropic campaign 鈥� Be Boundless 鈥� For Washington, For the World 鈥� passed a historic milestone. We met the campaign鈥檚 goal two years ahead of schedule thanks to the extraordinary generosity of more than 380,000 donors 鈥� including many in our own 91探花community 鈥� and through the collaboration of so many of our faculty, staff, alumni and students.
Professor of psychology Kristina Olson wins MacArthur 鈥淕enius Grant鈥�
Congratulations to Kristina Olson, an associate professor of psychology and the director of the UW鈥檚 Social Cognitive Development Lab, who is the latest 91探花recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship 鈥� aka a 鈥済enius grant.鈥� Kristina鈥檚 groundbreaking, long-term studies of transgender and gender-nonconforming children are a fabulous example of how methodologically rigorous research matters by helping to inform policy and support mental health.
To our community, new and returning, welcome!
There has been an undeniable uptick in our tempo over the past few weeks as we welcome new students, faculty and staff 鈥� and their families 鈥� to our community. To all of you, whether this is your first year at the 91探花or your 40th, welcome. You infuse the 91探花with a vast potential that is truly inspiring, and I can鈥檛 wait to see what we accomplish together this year.
91探花alumni are vital to ensuring reinvestment in Washington public higher ed
We are at a pivotal moment for the future of our University. The next session of the state legislature in January will be a crucial one for the 91探花and all of public higher education.
A dose of inspiration from Justice Sotomayor
This weekend, I had the tremendous honor of interviewing Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor who was invited here by the University Book Store and the 91探花School of Law to talk about her newest book, Turning Pages
Mourning a loss for our community
As we have feared, and as the Seattle police today confirmed, tragically, two 91探花students, Kornkamon Leenawarat and Thiti-On Chotechuangsab, died in an apartment near the Seattle campus earlier this week. Both were students in the 91探花School of Law Masters of Law program.