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News and Updates
Huskies headed to the Final Four
The UW Women’s basketball team departed for the Final Four this morning with help from a large crowd of supporters gathered at Husky stadium. The seventh-seeded Huskies head to Indianapolis for their first Final Four in program history. Seattle Mayor Ed Murray addressed the crowd and proclaimed it Purple and Gold Week in honor of the team. Read about the team’s success and get news at gohuskies.com. The Huskies take on Syracuse Sunday at 5:30pm Pacific.
2016 state legislature adjourned
On day 20 of the special session, just before 11:00 p.m., the legislature adjourned sine die, after passing compromise operating and capital budgets earlier in the day. The University of Washington was successful in bringing home its top priority – backfill for the tuition reduction adopted by the legislature in 2015. Throughout session, students, staff, alumni, regents, and leadership reinforced the same message, that backfilling the tuition cut was critical to preserving access to and the quality of education at the UW. Read more from the Office of State Relations.
VP Biden in Seattle to meet with cancer researchers
U.S. Vice President Joe Biden was in Seattle on Monday as part of his cancer “moonshot” listening tour. He urged Seattle leaders, include UW Medicine, to work together to solve the complexities of curing cancer. The panel included Dr. Mary-Claire King, UW professor of genome sciences and of medicine. Read more from UW Health Sciences.
University of Washington, Gonzaga University announce UW medical school partnership
It’s happened! After about a year of discussion and negotiations, the University of Washington Medical School and Gonzaga University were able sign a partnership agreement on February 24th! The partnership will bring great synergy to our two institutions and help the University of Washington expand its medical school in Spokane. The day was planned with a media event for the announcement, in which Gonzaga University’s President, Dr. Thayne McCulloh, was the first speaker. President Ana Mari Cauce, City of Spokane Mayor David Condon, Dr. Suzanne Allen, Dean of the WWAMI Program, Scott Morris, Chair of GU’s Board of Trustees, and Todd Mielke, CEO of Greater Spokane Incorporated all spoke of the importance of growing the health industry in Spokane and what this collaboration will do to assist in that goal.
This coming fall, we will be seeing 60 new first year medical students. They will join the 40 first year students (that will be second year students soon.) There will be work to build a community advisory group, and continued communication with the legislature and Spokane supporters. This has taken many months to put together and it is all worth it!