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Finalists Chosen in Competition for Initiative
Funding
Twenty-two preproposals for the University Initiatives Fund
(UIF) were selected to submit full proposals, Acting Provost
Lee L. Huntsman announced this week. The deadline for full
proposals is March 1; funding will begin July 1.
They were selected from a pool of 63 preproposals reviewed
by Huntsman and the advisory UIF review committee he
appointed.
"The initial review process has reduced both the number of
proposals and the funding requested by about a factor of
three," Huntsman wrote in a letter to deans, vice provosts
and vice presidents. "Since UIF support will be on the
order of $8 million for the 1997-99 biennium, another three-fold
reduction will be required in the consideration of full proposals."
The total estimated biennial budgets for all preproposals
reached nearly $70 million.
UIF funding comes from a one percent budget reduction
imposed on all University units, and both academic and
administrative units were invited to submit proposals.
Approximately a third of the funding comes from
administrative units, and at least one sixth of the
allocation will support administrative initiatives.
"With an abundance of excellent ideas, this has been a
promising start for the UIF," Huntsman said.
Preproposals invited to submit full proposals are:
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Sign Language Interpreters and Instruction; Vice
Provost/Administration, lead unit; Affirmative Action,
Arts & Sciences, participating units.
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Health Sciences Academic and Administrative Computing
Support Initiative; Dentistry, lead unit; Pharmacy,
Medicine, Public Health, Nursing and Social Work,
participating units.
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Global Trade, Transportation, and Logistics Studies;
Graduate School, lead unit; Public Affairs, College of
Ocean and Fishery Sciences, Engineering, Business, Law,
and Arts and Sciences, participating units.
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The University of Washington Digital Library; University
Libraries, lead unit; Computing and Communications,
Engineering, Undergraduate Education, participating
units.
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Center in Computational Biology; Engineering, lead unit;
Medicine, Computing and Communications, Arts and
Sciences, participating units.
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Center for Environmental Technology; Engineering, lead
unit; Arts and Sciences, Medicine, Public Health,
participating units.
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Center for NanoTechnology; Engineering, lead unit, Arts
and Sciences, Medicine, participating units.
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Center for Microfabrication; Engineering, lead unit,
Medicine, Arts and Sciences, participating units.
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Health Sciences Interdisciplinary Partnerships in Clinical
Education; Nursing, lead unit, Public Health, Social
Work, Medicine, and Pharmacy, participating units.
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Automated Travel Expense System; Office of the Executive
Vice President, lead unit; Computing and Communications,
participating unit.
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Streamline the Grant and Contract Process; Office of the
Executive Vice President, lead unit, Research, Computing
and Communications, participating units.
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Human Resources-Higher Education Payroll and Personnel
System/Employee Assistance Program; Office of the
Executive Vice President, lead unit, Administration,
Computing and Communications, participating units.
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Goods and Services Acquisitions; Office of the Executive
Vice President, lead unit; Health Sciences
Administration, Computing and Communications,
participating units.
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The Puget Sound Regional Synthesis Model: An Integrated
Vision of Puget Sound into the 21st Century; College of
Ocean and Fishery Sciences, lead unit; Arts and Sciences,
College of Forest Resources, Architecture, Research,
Public Affairs, participating units.
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Partnerships for Seamless Education; Minority Affairs,
lead unit; Education, Undergraduate Education,
participating units.
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Public Health Genetics; Public Health, lead unit;
Pharmacy, Medicine, Law, participating units.
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Research, Teaching and Public Program in the Humanities;
Arts and Sciences, lead unit, UW Libraries, participating
unit.
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The Center for Media, Technology and Democracy; Arts and
Sciences, lead unit; Public Affairs, participating unit.
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The Institute of Prevention Science: Interdisciplinary
Promotion of Well-Being in Children and Families; Arts
and Sciences, lead unit; Nursing, Social Work, Public
Affairs, Education, participating units.
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Program in Human Genetics; Medicine, lead unit.
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Biomolecular Structure and Design in Medicine; Medicine,
lead unit; Arts and Sciences, participating unit.
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Program in Neurobiology and Neurogenetics; Medicine, lead
unit; Arts and Sciences, participating unit.
The 12 members of the UIF advisory committee were selected
for having "recognized expertise, judgment and
institutional perspective," Hunstman said. Committee
members are: James Banks, professor and director of the
Center for Multicultural Education; John Coulter, executive
director, Health Sciences Administration; Ernest Henley,
professor emritus, Department of Physics; Margaret
Heitkemper, chair, Biobehavioral Nursing and Health Systems;
Charles Hirschman, chair, Department of Sociology; Gretchen
Kalongi, professor, Materials Science and Engineering;
Thomas Lockwood, chair, Department of English; Robin McCabe,
professor and director, School of Music; Jeraldine McCray,
assistant vice president, Facilities Services; Roger
Perlmutter, chair, School of Medicine Department of
Immunology; Robert Van Citters, professor, School of
Medicine Department of Cardiology; and Stephen Woods,
professor, Department of Psychology.
The same group will review full proposals. As with the
preproprosals, evaluation will be in terms of impact,
innovation, feasibility and cost-effectiveness, Huntsman
said. He will forward recommendations for funding to
President Richard L. McCormick, who will make the final
decisions.
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