in the intellectual field alone there are many kinds of excellence. There is the kind of intellectual activity that leads to a new theory, and the kind that leads to a new machine. There is the mind that finds its most effective expression in teaching and the mind that is most at home ...
Located just north of the center of Seattle, the University of Washington is an urban public university that boasts highly ranked STEM and business programs, ranks consistently in the top 20 public schools in the nation, and offers 180 majors to undergraduates. UW uses a quarter system for thei...
Last spring, COVID-19 gave Godley's undergraduates a real-time field experience as they returned to their communities to finish the school year and encountered a wide range of knowledge and attitudes about the pandemic. "They loved that they were able to use their knowledge of how epidemics...
In some schools, unlike the UW, faculty are responsible for advising individual undergraduates; but here at the UW Diane does that. It makes for a bit of a disconnect between faculty and students in some ways, but has advantages too. Teaching Philosophies What is a successful pedagogy? o...
Spain. Sixteen UW undergraduates and recent graduates served as tutors for the study, undergoing two weeks of training at I-LABS to learn the teaching method and curriculum before traveling to Spain. The country's extensive public education system enabled the researchers to enroll 280 infants and ...
the more they can get stabbed. And that’s really weird. I’ve done experiments with high school students, undergraduates, doctoral candidates, and tenured professionals and I’ve discovered there is NO correlation between level of experience and how many stabs it takes to render them useless. ...