Category: News

The 2018 Draft Seattle Campus Master Plan provides the framework for the University of Washington’s future campus development. Progressive and sustainable, it balances the preservation of the core campus with the need to accommodate increasing density. The plan integrates the UW’s academic, research, and service missions with its capital plan objectives.

Learn more about the draft plan and share your input at the next public event. You can see the schedule of events and read the draft plan on the project website. An online open house is scheduled for Wednesday, October 12 from Noon – 1 p.m. Register here.

Amazon announced that it will donate $10 million toward the construction of a new computer-science building on the UW campus. Read more from UW Today.

Watch this new UW 360 episode to meet Marine combat veteran and UW grad, Christopher Brown. He shares how he combined his own personal struggle with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) with his UW education to help his fellow veterans. Brown’s non-profit organization, “Growing Veterans,” seeks to reconnect veterans with civilian life through a sustainable agriculture program.

The University of Washington and Tsinghua University hosted a groundbreaking ceremony for the Global Innovation Exchange (GIX) last week in Bellevue. A global partnership between the UW and Tsinghua University, with early support from Microsoft, GIX will help elevate the greater Seattle region as a center for innovation. Located in Bellevue’s Spring District in a nearly 100,000-square foot, state-of-the-art facility, the GIX building will feature design studios, a large makerspace, electronics prototyping labs, and spaces for collaboration and presentations. It is scheduled to open for the 2017-18 academic year.

Learn more about GIX online and see coverage of the groundbreaking event.

The program is now accepting applications for the inaugural fall 2017 class with students able to apply for UW’s Master of Science in Technology Innovation (MSTI) degree and the GIX dual masters’ degree.  An initial cohort of students began their studies in the dual masters’ degree program in Beijing this fall and will join newly recruited students in Bellevue in fall 2017.

On Tuesday, Xiamen Airlines and Boeing celebrated inaugural service by the airline between Shenzhen and Seattle by the Boeing 787 Dreamliner.

The service launched September 26 and is the first direct international service between Shenzhen and the United States and the first long-haul route originating in Xiamen with an end point the United States. Xiamen Airlines operates a fleet of 165 aircraft and the largest all-Boeing fleet in China.

Randy Hodgins, UW Vice President for External Affairs, pictured with Kelly Maloney, President & CEO of the Washington Aerospace Futures Alliance and Federal Way city council member