Recently, Professor Jan Whittington served as a panelist at the International Conference on Disaster Resilient Infrastructure (ICDRI) in Washington, D.C. to discuss a partnership between universities and national and local climate infrastructure projects.
It’s quite easy for people around the world to think that universities are only interested in the pursuit of knowledge for academic purposes and academic applications. But the truth is that the University of Washington, like many universities, has a long history of community-engaged scholarship and public scholarship and the widespread application of our knowledge out in the field.
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