The annual Support Professionals Spring Retreat is coming up on Tuesday, April 21! This year’s topics focus on enhancing self-awareness, appreciating differences, finding balance, and overcoming resistance to change. As the long-time coordinator for this event, I’d like to guide you through a day’s worth of activities and workshops to help you decide if the [...]

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Shi Chen is an assistant professor in the Foster School of Business. His research deals with the interface of project management and supply chain management — or, in other words, how to make businesses better. “You can always improve a business,” Shi said. “There is no best outcome. You can always identify some potential problem. You can develop a model that nobody has seen before, and you can analyze this model and present a meaningful result.”

If you’ve ever been to a Whole U event, chances are you’ve seen Sabahat Hussain. He’s taken full advantage of our program since coming to UW from a tech company in 2014. “I came from a corporate culture that was rewarding, but there was less focus on individual employee development,” said Sabahat, who is now [...]

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Do you want to get involved in Earth Day 2015? There are all sorts of exciting opportunities! First,­ the UW Combined Fund Drive and The Whole U are teaming up to bring you Healthy Living, a seminar featuring Nancy Uding from Washington Toxics Coalition (WTC). Nancy will share how WTC is working to preserve the [...]

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