Employees of the future need multiple skill sets across fields that were once seen as distinct. [Read full story in the Seattle Times]
Graduation marks a ‘magical moment’ for GIX
newsAna Mari Cauce, UW President, shares a significant GIX milestone – our first ever graduation. [Read full blog article here]
Tomorrow’s innovators: First class graduates from Global Innovation…
newsFrom interpreting chicken vocalizations with AI to identifying wildlife with machine learning, the inaugural projects from the first GIX graduating class demonstrate how collaborative, global education can lead to technology innovation for the greater good. [Read full Microsoft On the Issues Article]
Platform’s students focus on innovative, practical uses of…
newsGIX presents an innovative focus to technology innovation in education. [Read full article in China Daily]
Bellevue’s GIX grad school is a smart U.S.-China…
newsThe United States’ escalating tensions with China highlight the value of GIX, the graduate school launched in Bellevue by the University of Washington, Microsoft, and Tsinghua University. [Read full Seattle Times article]
Microsoft-funded U.S.-China tech institute GIX graduates first class,…
newsThe latest milestone for the Global Innovation Exchange (GIX) came Sunday as the U.S.-China tech institute celebrated the graduation of its first cohort of 37 students. [Read full article in GeekWire]
Innovation in Education Isn’t Just Technological – It’s Architectural…
newsNew types of classrooms are being designed to be dynamic and fluid – like the ones in the GIX Steve Ballmer Building — to support new forms of pedagogy. [Read full article]
GIX Innovation Competition 2018 Final Round
newsThe final round of the 2018 GIX Innovation Competition was held in Beijing on August 26th. [Read full article]
GIX Team Saffron enters the home stretch in…
newsGIX students near the finish line in a competition to create a wearable sensor device that sends wireless alerts to emergency services in threatening situations. [Read the full article]
Could this small device solve sexual assault threats?
newsSoon you, your daughter, sister or wife can wear a tiny hidden device that will call for help in case of trouble, even if there’s no smartphone coverage. [Read the full article]
Anu & Naveen Jain Announce Leaf Wearables as…
newsThe Women’s Safety XPRIZE competition, which was created to address the safety of women and girls by leveraging technology, recently announced the grand prize winner. Excitingly, GIX student-led team, Saffron, was one of the top five finalists. [Read full story here]
UW team competes for $1 million XPRIZE for…
newsGIX students, called Team Saffron, made it into the final round of the XPRIZE Women’s Safety competition with an inconspicuous emergency wearable device. [Read full article in UW News]
To breed innovative ideas, start with an innovative…
newsThe ‘heart of the building’ is the second-floor makerspace, where students take their ideas from classes and meetings and turn them into reality. [Read full article]
Daring to dream: GlX crosses borders as it…
newsBuilding a future model for higher education that merges technology, entrepreneurship, and design thinking. [Read the full article]
The Global Innovation Exchange promises to teach students…
newsGIX is attracting support from universities and corporations around the world, with the goal of tackling the worlds greatest challenges through projects centered on future innovation. [Read the full article]
GIX Opens in Bellevue (via KOMO 4 News)
newsHappening this morning, a ribbon cutting for a new campus that’s expected to be home for the next generation of tech innovators. [Watch the inauguration on Komo 4 News ]