University of Washington
UniversityPublic, flagship,research university
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| Motto | Lux sit (Latin) |
| Formation | 1861 |
| Headquarters | Seattle, Washington State |
| Type | Public, flagship,research university |
| Subgroups | Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation |
| Other name | Huskies ("Dawgs") |
| University in Seattle, Washington state | |
The University of Washington is a public research university in Seattle, Washington. Founded in 1861, Washington is one of the oldest universities on the West Coast; it was established in Seattle approximately a decade after the city's founding to aid its economic development. Today, the university's 703 acre main Seattle campus is in the University District, Puget Sound region of the Pacific Northwest. The university also has campuses in Tacoma and Bothell. Overall, UW encompasses over 500 buildings and over 20 million gross square footage of space, including one of the largest library systems in the world with more than 26 university libraries, as well as the UW Tower, lecture halls, art centers, museums, laboratories, stadiums, and conference centers. The university offers degrees through 140 departments in various colleges and schools, and functions on a quarter system.
The university has been affiliated with many notable alumni and faculty, including 21 Nobel Prize laureates and numerous Pulitzer Prize winners, Fulbright Scholars, Rhodes Scholars and Marshall Scholars.
Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation
- Full article: Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation
- Full article: Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation
The Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation is a mostly Gates Foundation-funded research institute at the University of Washington. With $600 million in funding from Gates, it has managed to create almost a monopoly on creating global health statistics - often based on estimates rather than actual data - and thus helps create the wanted narrative for its sponsor.[1]
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In 2019, Provost Mark Richards sent a campuswide email to rally students and faculty to support his mission: “With ‘access and excellence’ as our mantra, we are working hard to more effectively link our capital investments to our academic mission and priorities."[2]
The wording made a student react. "Many people in the Buddhist and Hindu community hold this term ‘mantra’ as a highly spiritual and religious experience, not to be used in the way Mark Richards did with nonchalance,: the student complained.
In a follow up, a diversity staffer advised the provost’s office on the "concern about use of wording."[2]