Spring 2025
Safeguarding the National Research Enterprise—How can we empower the U.S. research community to protect the value of its research while maintaining the collaboration that is essential to producing that value?
Instructor: Dr. Mark Haselkorn
The SECURE Center has the mission of empowering the research community to make security-informed decisions. This can only be accomplished through a close partnership with that community. SECURE partners with the research community by working collaboratively with research universities, nonprofit research institutes, and small and medium businesses to identify research security challenges, co-design and develop appropriate solutions, and deliver those solutions within a secure shared virtual environment. The objective is to help this diverse stakeholder group enhance the security of the value they produce, without harming the collaboration that is critical to their production of that value.
A key SECURE strategy is the co-design and development of a Shared Virtual Environment (SVE) where researchers, compliance officials, and organizational leaders from across the country, and, if desired, from international partner nations, can come together in a safe, protected, supportive environment to collaborate, share tools, and learn from each other. SECURE is an investment in our national research enterprise. What can we, a one quarter group of DRG students, add to this investment?
Enrollment information
- Meeting time: Fridays, 12:30 – 2:20.
- Credits: 2 credits recommended (equivalent to 2 hours of in-person DRG class meetings and 4 hours of additional work per week).
- Who should apply: Students who want to address large complex issues by co-designing solutions with diverse communities. Students interested in the relationship between security and collaboration.
- To apply: Email Mark Haselkorn at markh@uw.edu by March 21, 2025.
- Anticipated notification date: March 28, 2025