Archive for October 2007
University is Succeeding says Emmert
In his annual address to the University of Washington, Tuesday October 16, President Mark Emmert praised the strides being made by UW researchers and also set goals for the next year of operation.
Emmert started his speech by noting that the University now does over $1 billion in research and that the school now ranks #4 in terms of the number faculty members that have inducted into the National Academies for their respective fields, including a Nobel Prize winner and 11 MacArthur fellows. He stated that the UW currently sends more students into the Peace Corps than any other University in the country.
Emmert announced that the UW will be making improvements, including the restoration of the Quad and moving certain offices into the Safeco Tower, now renamed UW Tower. He also took this time to recognize the need to revaluate the University’s housing strategy and improve the campus’ residence halls some of which, in his words, were older than him. He also stressed the need to invent new ways of handling data on the campus, that they now had funding to create a data center. He felt that the University that learns how to best manage its data will be the one that succeeds.However, he wanted to remind everyone that these successes couldn’t have been achieved by these individuals alone that the whole University had a share in their successes.
“Nothing is a solo performance. No one wins anything alone,” Emmert said.
A recorded version of the speech can been viewed at here.
Introduction
Greetings and welcome to my blog. I apologize for the late start, but I am finally posting content. My intent for this blog will to be post short articles relating to news items that are relevant to the University of Washington, specifically pegging the topics to items that might appear in local news sources such as The Daily or UWnews.org. I don’t intend to be an alternative news source, but rather to supplement those sources; providing more information on topics that would be of interest to UW Students like myself and hopefully these items will have a direct relevance on the school, faculty, and students.
Now, a little bit about who I am and where I’m coming from. Senior undergraduate majoring in Communication: Journalism. I am writing this for COM361 and my intent is to write as a reporter would write a blog. While I have been blogging for about 4 years, my personal blog tends to be more about myself and less about what is relevant to people who might be reading it. I also think that it will be a struggle to find what kind of voice I would like to have on this blog, but hopefully I will figure out how I want this blog to read after the first few posts.
In addition to this blog, I am writing stories for The Daily (only one so far, but I intend to write more) and I also write in my free time on my blog and with several on-line writing groups that I’m a part of. I also work on pages for Wikipedia.org in English and Spanish from time to time. I will post a more extensive profile on the About section of this blog after have added more content.
On the agenda for today: I will be covering UW President Mark Emmert’s annual speech today at Kane Hall. Afterward I will give a brief review of the speech and hopefully will find more topics of interest to write on in his speech.
