Category: News

The University of Washington Livable City Year program has selected the City of Bellevue as a community partner for the next academic year. The year-long partnership connects city staff with UW students and faculty to collaborate on projects that advance the Bellevue City Council Vision Priorities, specifically those around livability and sustainability. The UW Livable City Year program launched in the 2016–2017 academic year. Previous city partners include the City of Auburn and the City of Tacoma.Read more on the Livable City Year website.

Nearly 50 different graduate and professional programs and specialties at the University of Washington are among the top 10 in the nation, according to U.S. News & World Report’s 2019 Best Graduate School rankings released March 20. Medicine, nursing, social work, computer science and public affairs received prominent placement in the newest rankings. Read more from UW News.

Last week, the Washington State Legislature passed the 2017-19 supplemental operating and capital budgets to Governor Inslee, marking the end of the 60-day legislative session. Read more about the completed budgets from the Office of State Relations.

State Relations will be joining with the Office of Planning & Budgeting to host a post-session update on Tuesday, March 27 from 12:30pm to 1:30pm in Gerberding 142.

At the College of the Environment’s geology field camp, students hit the dirt for experiences you can’t find in a textbook. Over six weeks, students mapped, surveyed and explored an area informally known as the Rat’s Nest, near Montana’s Block Mountain, as part of the Department of Earth and Space Science’s geology field camp. Learn more here.

A University of Washington Health Sciences team led by the School of Dentistry is launching an interprofessional training program to improve access to dental care for children ranging in age from the first year of life through 5 years. Early Childhood Oral Health Training, or EchoTrain, will provide pediatric dental training directly to UW dental students, Shoreline Community College dental hygiene students, and students and trainees of the UW School of Medicine. Collaborative learning is also planned with faculty, students and trainees from not only UW Medicine but the UW’s Schools of Public Health and Pharmacy. Read more from the UW School of Dentistry.