The WAFAR Promise

  • Accelerate novel, intensive collaborative research aimed at solving the world’s greatest problems
  • Intentionally engage world-leading scholars and innovators for research collaborations with Western students and faculty
  • Prioritize challenges identified by our local, national and international communities for WAFAR solutions
  • Relentlessly promote communication of WAFAR research solutions to our citizen partners to accelerate uptake
  • Listen to and engage our students, innovators and researchers with humility to advance Western as a unique and world-leading research, innovation and discovery space.