Faculty & Staff Insider
Welcome to the Faculty & Staff Insider! Here you will find relevant resources and weekly updates to enhance your employment experience at the UW.
NOTEWORTHY
Faculty spotlight
Teaching Online 101
April 13–June 7
This eight-week, fully online, asynchronous course is designed to enhance your digital course design and digital pedagogy skill set.
Staff spotlight
Access LinkedIn Learning recommendations for your development
Use Professional & Organizational Development’s curated picks to identify quality on-demand training to advance your productivity and other business skills.
Student spotlight
Join the on-campus jobs fair in spring
April 1 | 1–4 p.m. | Husky Union Building
Looking for an on-campus student job for next academic year? Campus departments will be promoting their open student jobs, sharing about future hiring and answering questions about their unit.
NEWS AND RESOURCES
View the Wednesday, Feb. 25 issue of UW Insider or request access for an archived issue.
Federal policy updates
As the federal policy landscape evolves, we continue to navigate various situations. Our interest lies in evaluating and monitoring changes and the possible impacts they could have on our community. Although faced with uncertainty, we will continue activities as planned unless we are notified differently. Read all the updates on the Provost’s webpage and find specific resources.
ChatGPT Edu is now available on UWare
This service can help with tasks such as drafting content, summarizing text, answering questions, generating images and supporting workflows. The UW provides access to ChatGPT-5 through UWare, aligning with University data governance standards. University data is securely stored and not used for model training. Learn how to get started.
How mosquitoes detect a compound in mosquito repellent
Mosquito-borne diseases cause more than 600,000 deaths worldwide per year. As mosquitoes increasingly become resistant to current insecticides, new research, including researchers at the UW, provides insight into how sensitive mosquitoes are to an organic compound common in plant-based repellents.
Get Grackle for accessibility in Google applications
Grackle Workspace is now free for the UW community, offering built‑in accessibility checks and tagged PDF export for Google Docs, Sheets and Slides to support inclusive, compliant content creation.
Take your kid to work day
Explore the UW with your kids through a scavenger hunt, athletics tour and hands-on activities. Join UW WorkLife and The Whole U Thursday, April 23, on the Seattle campus. Register to join (NetID required) »
Feeling burned out? Support is available
WA EAP offers free, confidential counseling to help you manage stress, build resilience and reconnect with balance at work and home. Give it a try and gain tools to support you at work and in life.
Working at the UW
Find a job that will change your life, and others’ lives too.
– Academic jobs
– Staff jobs
– Student jobs
– UW Medicine jobs
Measles vaccination reminder
In recent months, measles cases and outbreaks have increased in the U.S. The University’s Advisory Committee on Communicable Diseases (ACCD) reminds and strongly encourages the UW community to remain up to date on their measles, mumps and rubella (MMR) vaccinations.
View the Campus Climate Survey results
Learn how more than 11,000 students and employees across all three campuses and UW Medicine responded to the survey about their experiences learning, working and living at the UW. Read the report.
