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The Paul G. Allen Center for
Computer Science & Engineering
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The Paul G. Allen Center for Computer Science & Engineering
is taking University of Washington Computer
Science & Engineering to new levels of impact and excellence!
UW Computer Science & Engineering
- Ranked among the top ten programs in the nation
at both the undergraduate and graduate levels
- UW awards include four Distinguished Teaching Awards,
the Distinguished Graduate Mentor Award, the Excellence in
Teaching Award (for graduate teaching assistants), the
Outstanding Public Service Award, and the inaugural
Brotman Award for Instructional Excellence (a departmental
distinguished teaching award)
- Integrally linked to the future excellence of the University
of Washington, and to the Pacific Northwest's innovation economy
The Building
- The Allen Center allows UW CSE to continue to excel,
as the field explodes in importance and becomes
ever more laboratory-intensive
- 85,000 square feet of space
- Integrates with a recently-completed building for the
Electrical Engineering Department by means of an atrium
that serves as a "student commons"
- Increases CSE's total space by a factor of 2.5 and
its laboratory space by a factor of 3, for the first time
approaching national norms for comparable programs
- Groundbreaking took place in autumn 2001, occupancy
in autumn 2003
- Design by
LMN Architects.
General contractor:
M.A. Mortenson Company.
- Online
"guided tour"
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Hank Levy,
faculty liaison
for Allen Center
design and
construction
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- In
use!
- Art
in the Allen Center
The Fundraising Campaign
- The cost of the new facility was $72 million
- $42 million was raised privately
($30 million provided by UW and the state),
as the University of Washington's top institutional priority
- Campaign leadership:
Tom Alberg (Madrona Venture
Group), Jeremy Jaech (CSE alumnus and co-founder of Aldus and Visio),
and Ed Lazowska (Bill & Melinda Gates Chair in Computer
Science and head of the department from 1993-2001)
- Leadership gifts from
Microsoft co-founder Paul G. Allen,
the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation,
and Microsoft Corporation
- Joined by more than 250 friends and alumni,
working together to ensure that UW CSE has the tools to
remain competitive
- Thank you! In
July 2003 we completed the capital portion of the
Campaign for CSE -- we raised the $42 million
in private funds required to complete the building!
(UW
press release here (pdf).)
- The Campaign for CSE continues -- much-needed
endowments and annual fund
contributions to support "the people part."
Support CSE!
You Can Make A Difference!
- Annual fund contributions plus
$20 million in endowment funds for
scholarships, fellowships, and professorships -- "the people
part" -- are also being sought as part of the
Campaign
for CSE
- Interested in further information?
Email Ed Lazowska
(lazowska at cs.washington.edu)
or Anne Adams
(anne at engr.washington.edu).
- Click here
to find out more about making a gift to the Campaign for CSE
and to get a campaign update.
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