Awards overview
26 awards offered, engaging in 15 countries
$230,000 funds awarded
$66,000 funds matched by 21 schools, colleges, programs
Awarded Projects – Innovation in Global Engagement & Partnerships
Awards support research collaborations, faculty and student collaborations, faculty exchanges, distinguished scholar support, cross-college and interdisciplinary conferences, symposia and workshops, as well as seed funding for new project development
| Project name | Engaged UW faculty | Engaged UW college, school or program | Countries of engagement |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Children’s Healthy Oral Management Project (CHOMP) – Pediatric dentistry and HIV | Ana Lucia Seminario, Jennifer Slyker, Sarah Benki-Nugent | Dentistry, Global Health | Kenya |
| Expanding professional social work education: Hands across the border | Tracy Harachi, Nancy Hooyman | Social Work, Global Health | Cambodia, Vietnam |
| Creating an international component to the National Nanotechnology Coordinated Infrastructure (NNCI) program | Karl Böhringer, Kai-Mei Fu, Dan Schwartz, Jim Pfaendtner, Lara Gamble, Dan Ratner | Engineering, Arts & Sciences | Japan, France, Thailand |
| Generative innovative solutions to the global tuberculosis epidemic through collaboration | Paul Drain, Judy Wasserheit, Jerry Cangelosi, Chetan Seshadri, Theo Vos, Barry Lutz | Medicine, Engineering, Global Health, Public Health | Bangladesh |
| Global parent-child mental health initiative: Building capacity for primary care and school settings | Cecilia Breinbauer, Suzanne Kerns, Susan, Spieker, Nancy Grote, Janine Jones, Marcia Weaver | Nursing, Education, Social Work, Arts & Sciences, IHME | China, Peru, Kenya, Chile |
| China-UW nursing and psychology partnership | Jane Simoni, Shannon Dorsey, Pamela Kohler, Deepa Rao | Arts & Sciences, Nursing, Global Health | China |
| Research and teaching collaboration to address address normative innovations related to global human rights | William J. Talbott, Amos Nascimento, Jamie Mayerfield, Ellwood Wiggins | UWT Interdisciplinary Arts & Sciences, Arts & Sciences | Germany |
| Improving diagnosis of rheumatic heart disease in low-resource settings | Nona Sotoodehnia, James Kirkpatrick, Tood Zwink, Annette Fitzpatrick, Michael Chung | Medicine, Global Health | Nepal |
| Improving access to quality education for Peruvian children with disabilities | Cheryl Kerfeld, Elizabeth West, Julie Dunlap, Jennifer Pitonyak, Cody McDonald | Education, Arts & Sciences, Medicine | Peru |
| Promoting community-based eldercare in Chongqing, China | Nancy Hooyman, Barbara Cochrane, Basia Belza | Social Work, Nursing | China |
| Disability in resource-limited environments | Mark Harniss, Sharan Brown, Rebecca Matter, Kurt Johnson | Education, Medicine | South Africa, India |
| India and the global economy | Sunila Kale, Kirsten Aoymama | Business, Arts & Sciences | India |
Awarded Projects – Innovation in Study Abroad Programming
Awards support new study abroad program development or innovative program development for existing faculty-led programs
| Project name | Engaged UW faculty | Engaged UW college, school or program | Countries of engagement |
|---|---|---|---|
| Blended Learning Partnership with Maasai Secondary School as part of a new exploration seminar, “Critical Perspectives on Ecotourism in Tanzania” | Benjamin Gardner, Ron Krabill | UWB Interdisciplinary Arts & Sciences | Tanzania |
| Strengthening the UW’s partnership with the Kenyan judiciary and human rights commission, creating field placements for UW students | Anita Ramasastry, Jennifer Lenga-Long | Law | Kenya |
| Nepal’s first student-focused research symposium on critical development studies | David Citrin, Biraj Karmacharya, Maya Magarati, Deepa Rao, Annette Fitzpatrick, Nicolaas P. Barr Clingan, Scott Halliday | Arts & Sciences, Global Health, Medicine, Social Work, Public Health | Nepal |
| Creating an archeological excavation field school | Sarah Stroup | Arts & Sciences | Italy |
| Three new engineering collaborations with Zhejiang University | Jim Pfaendtner | Engineering | China |
| Communication and public opinion about migration | Patricia Moy and David Canfield-Budde | Arts & Sciences | Germany |
| Learning about social problems in the aftermath of Apartheid through service learning | Clarence Spigner | Public Health | South Africa |
| Explore India’s Himalaya: Yoga, politics and development | Christian Novetske, Sunila Kale, Keith Goyden | Arts & Sciences | India |
| Year-long learning sequence designed to accommodate collegiate athletes, including service learning and study abroad | Holly Barker, Liberty Bracken, Ink Aleaga, Christine Stickler | Arts & Sciences, Intercollegiate Athletics, Undergraduate Academic Affairs | Samoa |
| Exploring the impact of migration and displacement on health and human rights | Erin Clowes, Jody Early | UWB Nursing, Arts & Sciences | Italy |
| Learning in the community: Healing and community building through dance | Carrie Lanza, Diana Garcia-Snyder | UWB Interdisciplinary Arts & Sciences | Mexico |
| Developing a township-based research collaborative | Christopher Knaus, Divya McMillin, Fern Tiger, Alexis Wheeler | UWT Education, Global Honors Interdisciplinary Arts & Sciences, Urban Studies | South Africa |
| Design, implementation and evaluation of community-driven interventions in low-income urban areas | Benjamin Spencer, Kimo Griggs, Roark Congdon, Tracy Harachi, Jim LoGerfo | Built Environments, Social Work, Global Health, Medicine | Cambodia |
| Land Use and Land Cover Change in Sichuan: International Multidisciplinary Collaborative Research, Teaching and Action in Policy, Planning and Social-Ecological Science | Dan Abramson | Urban Design & Planning | China |
| UW-China University Global Health Symposium: Expanding effective collaboration in Global Health | Stephen Gloyd | Global Health | China |