UW Provost and Executive Vice President Mark Richards discussed excellence in teaching and learning; advancing diversity, equity and inclusion; and post-pandemic challenges and opportunities during a livestream event on Tuesday, February 15, 2022.
Livestream lecture, special guest and Q&A
Remarks from and Q&A with Mark Richards
Provost and Executive Vice President for Academic Affairs
Professor of Earth and Space Sciences
Faculty speaker Margaret O’Mara
Howard and Frances Keller Endowed Professor of History
Presenting on the 1918 flu, the current pandemic and how we move forward together.
Provost Richards and Professor O’Mara will be joined by students from O’Mara’s History of the Digital Age course.
ASL interpretation and closed-captioning provided.
Past events
University of Washington Provost and Executive Vice President Mark Richards hosted a livestream discussion of academic excellence, the impact of the University’s work, and advancing diversity, equity and inclusion on March 16, 2021.
Provost Richards presented and answered questions following remarks from Assistant Professor of Art History Juliet Sperling and Vice President for Minority Affairs & Diversity Rickey Hall.
ASL interpretation and closed-captioning provided.
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Recommended reading
Learn more about the art and life of Jacob Lawrence.
Websites
- Explore Struggle: From the History of the American People at the Seattle Art Museum
- Explore the Migration Series
- Timeline: Jacob Lawrence’s Art and Life
Books
- Jacob Lawrence: The American Struggle. Turner, Elizabeth Hutton, and Austen Barron Bailly, eds. Salem, Massachusetts: Peabody Essex Museum, 2019.
- Jacob Lawrence: The Migration Series. Dickerman, Leah, and Elsa Smithgall, eds. N.Y.: The Museum of Modern Art, 2017.
- Painting Harlem Modern: The Art of Jacob Lawrence. Hills, Patricia. Berkeley: the University of California Press, 2009.
- The Complete Jacob Lawrence. Nesbett, Peter T, and Michelle DuBois. Seattle: University of Washington Press in association with Jacob Lawrence Catalogue Raisonné Project, 2000.
For kids
- Jake Makes a World: Jacob Lawrence, a Young Artist in Harlem. Rhodes-Pitts, Sharifa, Christopher Myers, and Jacob Lawrence. First edition. New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 2015.
- Jacob Lawrence in the City. Rubin, Susan Goldman. San Francisco, Calif: Chronicle Books, 2009.
- Aesop’s Fables / illustrated by Jacob Lawrence. Lawrence, Jacob. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1997.
On February 26, 2020, Provost and Executive Vice President Mark Richards spoke on a range of topics including UW’s commitment to equity and inclusion, population health, campus construction, a data science minor for students majoring in non-STEM fields and much more.
Program
- Gamelan Ensemble — UW students perform music from Malang in East Java, Indonesia, led by Christina Sunardi, associate professor and chair of Ethnomusicology.
- Clean Energy — Chemical engineering graduate student Gabriella Tosado discusses her research in clean energy.
- Provost remarks followed by Q&A
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Provost and Executive Vice President Mark Richards discussed academic excellence, student success, and the UW’s budget and infrastructure at the Henry Art Gallery Auditorium on May 14, 2019.