Empowering Technology Research Support: University of Washington

The University of Washington Information Technology (UW-IT) department and UW’s eScience Institute have been charged with supporting the research community’s vast and sophisticated technology needs. Both organizations have responded accordingly, incorporating technologically innovative solutions in areas like data analysis, high-performance computing, cloud services, digital asset management, collaboration, and high-speed data networking to facilitate researchers’ activities. This case study outlines UW’s practices and how the UW-IT and eScience organizations apply them to solve researchers’ problems. Although many institutions lack the resources—or even the need—to offer similar levels of support, at the heart of UW’s activities lie several practices that any college or university can apply when supporting its own research communities, regardless of the size and intensity of institutional research activities.

Citation for this work: Pirani, Judith A. Empowering Technology Research Support: University of Washington (Case Study). Louisville, CO: EDUCAUSE Center for Applied Research, 2011, available from http://www.educause.edu/ecar.