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New faculty at UW Tacoma in 2019-20

Marking the start of the 2019-20 academic year, we present short biographies of 24 faculty members who have recently joined the UW Tacoma community.

October 10, 2019
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  • Academic Affairs
  • Faculty Profiles
  • Milgard School of Business
  • School of Education
  • School of Engineering & Technology
  • School of Interdisciplinary Arts & Sciences
  • Culture, Art & Communications
  • Politics, Philosophy & Public Affairs News
  • Science and Mathematics
  • Social and Historical Studies
  • Social, Behavioral & Human Sciences
  • School of Nursing & Healthcare Leadership
  • School of Social Work & Criminal Justice
  • School of Urban Studies

Peer-to-Peer

UW Tacoma Associate Professor Sushil Oswal and recent graduate Allison Kruse co-authored a research paper on barriers to higher education for students with bipolar disorder.

October 9, 2019
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  • Faculty Profiles
  • Research
  • School of Interdisciplinary Arts & Sciences

How They Spent Their Summer

A group of UW Tacoma students and one recent alumna spent their summer in the lab as part of Senior Lecturer Julie Masura's environmental research experience course.

October 3, 2019
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  • Alumni
  • Research
  • School of Interdisciplinary Arts & Sciences
  • Center for Urban Waters
  • Science and Mathematics
  • Student profiles
  • Undergraduate education

Soldiering On

Army veteran and UW Tacoma senior Jeff Bantay overcame a difficult transition from military to civilian life and is now thriving.

September 18, 2019
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  • Alumni
  • School of Interdisciplinary Arts & Sciences
  • Social and Historical Studies
  • Student profiles
  • Undergraduate education
  • Veteran & Military Affairs

Summer Camp(us)

UW Tacoma hosts a number of youth-oriented programs during the summer that are designed to get local students excited about the future.

August 22, 2019
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  • Campus events
  • Community partnerships
  • Milgard School of Business
  • School of Engineering & Technology
  • School of Interdisciplinary Arts & Sciences
  • Undergraduate education

No One Is an Island

UW Tacoma Senior Lecturer Julie Masura and UW Tacoma alumna Catherine Crook came together to help a University of the Virgin Islands graduate student whose lab was destroyed by hurricanes.

August 7, 2019
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  • Alumni
  • Faculty Profiles
  • School of Interdisciplinary Arts & Sciences
  • Science and Mathematics
  • School of Urban Studies

Dakota Access Pipeline Subject of New Book

Senior Lecturer Ellen Moore collaborated on the project with members of the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe.

August 7, 2019
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  • Faculty Profiles
  • Research
  • School of Interdisciplinary Arts & Sciences
  • Culture, Art & Communications

Delayed but Not Detoured

The 2008 financial collapse put Emily Swanson's plans on hold but she revived them here at UW Tacoma.

July 31, 2019
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  • Alumni
  • Research
  • School of Interdisciplinary Arts & Sciences
  • Science and Mathematics

Rivers Run Through It

A new, permanent public art work, entitled “All the Rivers in the World,” stretches more than 250 feet through the UW Tacoma campus along the Prairie Line Trail.

July 23, 2019
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  • Art
  • Campus facilities
  • Campus planning
  • School of Interdisciplinary Arts & Sciences
  • Culture, Art & Communications

'Renegade Professor of English'

Raised in the South at a time when women were supposed to be wives and mothers, UW Tacoma Senior Lecturer Nicole Blair defied expectations and became an accomplished teacher, musician and author.

July 3, 2019
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  • Faculty Profiles
  • School of Interdisciplinary Arts & Sciences