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For Earth Day, students, faculty and staff from all three UW campuses reflect on what it means to be sustainable during a pandemic.

April 21, 2021
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Two UW Tacoma Juniors Selected as Truman Scholars

Chanise Jackson and Andre Jimenez plan to go to graduate school and dedicate their careers to public service.

April 14, 2021
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A Good Place to Grow

Kirsten Hargett chose to study biomedical sciences because she wanted to stretch herself.

April 9, 2021
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Designing a Better World

Alumna Ayda Kedirkhan wants to change the world, one design at a time.

April 1, 2021
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Math in the Time of Corona

For the past year, math professor Jennifer Quinn has been writing a blog about teaching mathematics and living during the pandemic.

March 25, 2021
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Taking Care

UW Tacoma alumna Joy Chang served as a medic in the army, an emergency room nurse at Tacoma General and now works as a nurse practitioner in a private practice.

March 19, 2021
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Founding Stories: The Black Student Union

Linda Ishem, Lisa Faircloth, Jamie McGee and Chana Lawson talk about the Black Student Union, the first student organization at UW Tacoma.

February 18, 2021
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New faculty at UW Tacoma in 2020-21

We are pleased to introduce 12 faculty members who have recently joined the UW Tacoma community.

February 9, 2021
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  • Milgard School of Business
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  • School of Social Work & Criminal Justice
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The Best She Can Be

Alumna Chelsi Johnson took the strategic communications skills she learned at UW Tacoma to the D.C. National Guard and the Department of Defense.

February 3, 2021
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Preserving Nihonmachi

In their new book, Mary Hanneman and Lisa Hoffman share the history of Tacoma's Nihonmachi and the Japanese Language School once located on what is now the UW Tacoma campus.

January 27, 2021
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