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Provost’s Town Hall

2025 Provost’s Town Hall

Join UW Provost and Executive Vice President for Academic Affairs Tricia Serio as she discusses the state of the University from an academic perspective and how the University inspires and supports faculty, staff and students to use their talent and passion to change the world.

  • Date: Wednesday, Feb. 26, 10–11 a.m.
  • Location: Alder Hall Auditorium, Seattle campus

Limited in-person attendance is available in the Alder Hall Auditorium.

Registration is required and open to those with a UW NetID.

Livestream

The town hall will be streamed live, with a recording available afterward. Registration for the livestream is not required.

Submit questions in advance to provost@uw.edu.

ASL interpretation and closed-captioning provided.


Accessible Accordion

UW Provost and Executive Vice President for Academic Affairs Tricia R. Serio discussed the state of the University from an academic perspective and highlighted some of the opportunities for faculty and staff to lead the conversation on using artificial intelligence to transform their research, innovation, teaching and impact. The town hall was held on Thursday, Feb. 15, 2024 at the Alder Hall Auditorium.

Download a transcript of remarks as prepared. (PDF)

Presentations

Special presentations on AI by two UW faculty members:

Noah Smith

Professor in the UW Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering and senior director of natural language processing research at the Allen Institute for AI

Biography

Andrew Connolly

Associate vice provost for data science and director of the UW eScience Institute

Biography