University of Washington eScience Institute

We are in the midst of a generational shift in research, and research funding opportunities, driven by new ‘disruptive’ technologies.  The rapid emergence of a new world of science driven by very large scale data, next generation sensors, and advanced robotic instruments, in a host of disciplines from the environmental, physical and other sciences and engineering through public health and medicine, requires research universities to make a new set of high-level specialty faculty and technical skills and resources available to research endeavors and proposals in order for them to remain competitive.   

The University of Washington eScience Institute has been formed (in January 2008) by  the Vice President for UW Technology and the Provost, in partnership with key Deans and a group of highly distinguished research faculty, to address these critical needs in UW’s characteristically entrepreneurial, highly leveraged, and interdisciplinary model.

Professor Ed Lazowska, our Bill & Melinda Gates Chair of Computer Science & Engineering, has agreed to serve as the UW eScience Institute’s inaugural Director. The Institute will be overseen by a Steering Committee made up primarily of distinguished researchers and chaired by Vice Provost for Research Mary Lidstrom. It will report on technology issues to the Vice President for UW Technology, and on academic issues to the Provost. 

The University has an important request in the current state ‘Supplemental Budget’ cycle for ongoing resources for the Institute.

Contacts

Ed Lazowska
Professor and Bill & Melinda Gates Chair
Computer Science & Engineering
Email | 206-543-4755
UW Mailbox: 352350