Community Connect UW (CCUW) is a database and management platform that allows UW faculty, staff, students and community partners to connect, organize, and understand impacts of collaboration. Interested in exploring? Login (using your NetID) and join both CCUW’s home group and your campus group (below) to start! Bothell | Seattle | Tacoma Over the past academic year, we’ve expanded Community Connect UW exponentially: Over 100 courses tracked, with over 90 managed through the platform, spanning campuses, units and geographies 30+ Civic Health Scorecard…
Category: UW Medicine
Mentorship in medicine
Meet Dr. Estell Williams, ’13, an emergency surgeon, community builder, dedicated mentor and the UW’s 2026 honoree for Black History Month. From the first grade, Dr. Estell Williams knew she wanted to be a doctor. The self-described science nerd isn’t quite sure where that came from, but she’s got a few guesses. Maybe it’s the fact that she had a Black pediatrician growing up, one whose office walls were plastered with photos of Black patients and their families, making it…