Endowment for Faculty Excellence
Help UW CSE recruit and retain the finest faculty members
Endowed Chairs and Endowed Professorships provide recognition and support to the very strongest faculty members. They are critical to the recruitment and retention of these true leaders, for two reasons:
- Prestige and national visibility: An endowed position carries recognition among colleagues within academia and industry and beyond. This type of recognition is an important retention tool for exemplary faculty, encouraging them to continue their important work at UW.
- Opportunity for unfettered creativity: An endowed position provides discretionary funds that may be used for any scholarly purpose. The flexibility afforded by this is invaluable because most government grants provide restricted funds for a specific activity. While funds from grants for established research directions are critical, discretionary funds support creativity and entrepreneurial ideas - they represent "venture funding."
Endowed Chairs and Endowed Professorships differ primarily in the funding level - Endowed Professorships in CSE are funded at a level of $1 million while Endowed Chairs are funded at a level of $2 million. In both cases, the principal is invested in UW's Consolidated Endowment Fund, which has consistently performed in the top quartile of endowments nationally. Roughly 4% is available for expenditure every year; additional gains are re-invested to keep pace with inflation.
Current endowed positions in CSE include:
- The Bill & Melinda Gates Chair, held by Professor Ed Lazowska
- The Wissner-Slivka Chair, held by Professor Hank Levy
- The Warren Francis and Wilma Kolm Bradley Chair, held by Professor David Notkin
- The Boeing Professorship, held by Professor Richard Ladner (formerly held by Professor David Notkin and Professor Nancy Leveson)
- The Robert E. Dinning Professorship, held by Professor Tom Anderson
- The Microsoft Professorship, held by Professor Anna Karlin (formerly held by Professor Susan Eggers and Professor Hank Levy)
- The Jerre D. Noe Professorship, held by Professor Gaetano Borriello
- The Washington Research Foundation / Thomas J. Cable Professorship, held by Professor Dan Weld
- The Washington Research Foundation Entrepreneurship Professorship, held by Professor Oren Etzioni
- The Short-Dooley Career Development Professorship, held by Professor James Landay (formerly held by Professor Steve Seitz)
- The Torode Family Career Development Professorship, held by Professor Yoky Matsuoka (formerly held by Professor Steve Gribble)
(The Boeing Pennell Professorship, a College of Engineering position, was formerly held by Professor Jean-Loup Baer.)
Profile: The Warren Francis and Wilma Kolm Bradley Endowed Chair in Computer Science & Engineering
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Chair holder David Notkin |
Wilma Bradley is a volunteer, a philanthropist, a patron of the arts, an avid investor, and a special friend of the University of Washington who is keenly interested in a broad range of intellectual pursuits.
Wilma first became interested in Computer Science & Engineering after attending the UW Annual Faculty Lecture given by CSE Professor Ed Lazowska in 1996. After several years of supporting CSE Ph.D. students (and regularly attending their thesis defenses!), she established the Warren Francis and Wilma Kolm Bradley Endowed Professorship in Computer Science & Engineering, in her name and that of her late husband. Subsequent funding converted the Bradley Professorship into the Bradley Chair. Professor David Notkin was recognized with the Bradley Professorship, and now holds the Bradley Chair.
Wilma's personal involvement with CSE faculty and students, and her interest in their work and in the broad impact of technology on society, makes the Bradley Chair special.
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Der Warren Francis und Wilma Kolm Bradley Stiftungslehrstuhl in Computer Science & Engineering (Informatik).
Die ehrenamtlich tätige Philanthropin Wilma Bradley ist eine Förderin der Künste, begeisterte Investorin und eine besondere Freundin de University of Washington. Ihr Interesse gilt einem breiten Spektrum an intellektuellen Themen.
Wilmas Interesse an der Abteilung für Computer Science & Engineering (Informatik) geht auf die 1996 von Informatikprofessor Ed Lazowska gehaltene UW Fakultätsvorlesung zurück, die sie besucht hat. Nachdem sie viele Jahre angehende Doktoranden finanziell unterstützt hat (und bei deren Prüfungen anwesend war!), etablierte sie in ihrem und dem Namen ihres verstorbenen Gatten die Warren Francis und Wilma Kolm Bradley Stiftungsprofessur für Computer Science & Engineering. Durch zusätzliche Finanzierung konnte die Bradley Professur in einen Bradley Lehrstuhl umgewandelt werden, den heute Professor David Notkin inne hat.
Der Bradley Lehrstuhl zeichnet sich durch Wilmas persönliches Engagement zu Computer Science & Engineering Lehrkräften und Studenten, und die Erforschung von Technologieauswirkungen auf die Gesellschaft aus.
Interested in learning more? Contact Ed Lazowska, lazowska@cs.washington.edu, or Karen Howard Leikin, CSE Advancement Officer, 206.616.8259 or krhoward@uw.edu.
Lifetime endowment gifts of $25,000 and above are permanently recognized on the UW CSE Endowment Wall in the Allen Center atrium.
Named funds are available for gifts of $50,000 and above. Appropriate recognition, designed in consultation with each donor, is part of each gift that creates a named fund.


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