The Global Innovation Exchange is an upcoming custom-built
facility that will focus on science and technology studies at a location in
Bellevue’s Spring district in Seattle.
Two of the world’s leading universities, the university of
Washington and China Tsinghua University, are partnering to promote education
among new generation of innovators made up of students, faculty and other
professionals from the world over.
Backed by Microsoft, Which provided $40 million as
foundational support, the GIX will first offer a master’s degree in technology
and will be adding more fields of study over the next decade.
Future students at GIX will have opportunities to study more
important and more relevant subjects. They will become the moving force that
will use science and technology in search of solutions to global issues such as
healthcare, climate change, energy and urban planning among others.
‘’Our support for GIX is grounded in our mission,’’ Posted
Microsoft on its blog. ‘’Microsoft was founded on the belief that technology
can empower people to do amazing things. Today, our mission to empower every
individual and every organization on the planet to achieve more. This includes
helping people tackle some of the biggest challenges facing our world today.
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