Awards overview
21 awards offered
$272,000+ awarded
$202,000+ matched by schools, colleges, partners
12 schools, colleges, programs
26 countries
5 regions: Africa, Asia, the Americas, Europe, Oceania
Applications overview
56 applications received
$733,000+ funds requested
17 schools, colleges, and campuses
-Highly competitive selection process
-Clear need for globally-focused seed funding
Awarded projects
| Project name | UW faculty and researchers | UW colleges, schools and programs | Countries of engagement |
|---|---|---|---|
| Academic Support Programs: Rome: Imagination, Immigration and Identity Study Abroad |
Ryan Burt, Adiam Tesfay | Academic Support Programs | Italy |
| Antimicrobial Stewardship Training for Kenyan Clinicians and Pharmacists | Aliza Monroe-Wise, John Lynch, Rupali Jain | Global Health, Medicine, Pharmacy | Kenya |
| Arts of Politics: Cultural Agency and Social Movements in Contemporary Peru Study Abroad |
María Elena García, José Antonio Lucero | Comparative History of Ideas, Jackson School of International Studies | Peru |
| Child Poverty and Mobility: A Comparative Study of Demographic Trends and Policy in the U.S. and Japan Research |
Scott Allard, Jennifer Romich | Evans School of Public Policy and Governance, School of Social Work | Japan |
| Comparative Punishment: A Proposed Study Abroad in Law, Societies, and Justice Study Abroad |
Steve Herbert | Law, Societies & Justice | Netherlands, Denmark, Sweden, Norway |
| Cookstove-Related BURN Injury Investigations in Nepal and Ghana (BURNING) Research |
Barclay Stewart, Charles Mock, Jonathan Posner, Katie Nielsen, Tam Pham | Surgery, Harborview Injury Prevention & Research Center, Global Health, Epidemiology, Mechanical Engineering, Pediatrics, UW Medicine Regional Burn Center | Ghana, Nepal |
| Defining the burden of undiagnosed and untreated HIV in cancer patients in 3 countries Research |
Rachel Bender Ignacio, Michalina Montaño | Medicine, Global Health | Malawi, South Africa, Zimbabwe |
| Developing last-mile solutions for global water challenges through cross campus research, student-scholar exchange and illustration of personal science journeys Research |
Faisal Hossain, Rebecca Neumann, Gordon Holtgrieve, Jessica Kaminsky, David Butman | Civil & Environmental Engineering, School of Aquatic and Fishery Sciences, School of Environment and Forest Sciences | Thailand, Vietnam, Cambodia, Pakistan, Bangladesh |
| Disability Inclusive Development Initiative: Building an International Collaborative Research |
Stephen Meyers, Megan McCloskey, Mark Harniss | Law, Societies & Justice, School of Law, Rehabilitation Medicine | South Africa, Jamaica |
| Effectively managing the impact of increasing ambient temperatures on health outcomes in Kenya using trans-disciplinary approaches Research |
Kristie Ebi, Jeremy Hess | Global Health, Department of Environmental & Occupational Health Sciences, Emergency Medicine | Kenya |
| Engineering and Public Health Solutions for Community Resilience Study Abroad |
Nicole Errett, Tania Busch Isaksen | Department of Environmental & Occupational Health Sciences | Dominican Republic |
| La Dolce Vita: Comparative Food Systems in Italy Study Abroad |
Jennifer J. Otten, Christopher M. Anderson, Kerryn W. Reding | Nutritional Sciences Program, Department of Environmental & Occupational Health Sciences, School of Aquatic & Fishery Sciences, Department of Biobehavioral Nursing and Health Informatics | Italy |
| Living Breath of wǝɫǝbʔaltxʷ Research |
Charlotte Cote, Dian Million | American Indian Studies | New Zealand |
| OmniVerse: A flexible database for tracking data and samples from the bedside, to the bench, to bioinformatics Research |
James I Mullins, Joshua T. Herbeck | Microbiology, Global Health | Kenya, South Africa |
| Partnership in Palliative Care Research |
Jody Waldron, John Harlan, Sri Josyula | Medicine, Hematology Oncology | Kenya, Uganda |
| Rural-Urban Development Field Training Initiative Research |
Susan Whiting, Kam Wing Chan, Daniel Abramson | Political Science, Geography, Urban Planning & Design | China |
| Rwanda Health Promotion: Summer Learning Program Study Abroad |
Esther K. Chung, Daniel Enquobahrie | Pediatrics, Epidemiology | Rwanda |
| Summer in Berlin – City of the Past and Future. Film, Media and Diversity Study Abroad |
Kye Terrasi | Germanics | Germany |
| UW-AKU Emergency Medicine Exchange Program Research |
Herbert C Duber, Sachita P Shah, Daniel Henning | Emergency Medicine | Kenya |
| Workshop on Next Generation Synchrotron Radiation Research |
Fumio Ohuchi | Material Science & Engineering | Japan |
| Youth, Social Action and Creative Space-Making in East Asia Research |
Jeffrey Hou, Andrea Gevurtz Arai, Jonathan Warren | Landscape Architecture, Jackson School of International Studies | Hong Kong, Japan, South Korea, China, Taiwan |