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University-city Partnership Seeks to Enhance Livability

Associate Professor Anne Taufen Wessells will serve as faculty co-director and the primary UW Tacoma contact throughout the 2017-18 Livable City Year partnership with the City of Tacoma.

June 20, 2017
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Jacob Nau, '17, Writing Studies

Graduating senior Jacob Nau developed an idea for a literary journal on homelessness with his classmates in Abby Murray's editing and publishing class. Now the journal is online, in print and on the streets.

June 1, 2017
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An App a Day

Assistant Professor Sharon Laing wants to use apps to connect low-income patients to health care.

January 20, 2017
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  • School of Nursing & Healthcare Leadership
  • Veteran & Military Affairs

Madigan Pairs With UW to Improve Medicine

The Institute of Technology's Ka Yee Yeung has a growing collaboration with medical personnel in Madigan Army Medical Center, using bioinformatics to look for genetic markers of disease potential.

January 19, 2017
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Writing Workshops Help Veterans and Dependents Tell Their Stories

UW Tacoma Lecturer Abby Murray is helping veterans and military dependents express themselves in her writing workshops.

January 13, 2017
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Japanese Language School: Part of Campus History

The history of a thriving pre-WWII Japanese American community in Tacoma will be commemorated via a sculpture by renowned artist Gerard Tsutakawa, to be installed along the Prairie Line Trail.

May 13, 2013
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  • Campus facilities
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  • Equity & Inclusion

New degree in Cybersecurity and Leadership meets growing demand

The degree, a collaboration with the Washington National Guard cybersecurity unit at Camp Murray, is the only such program outside the National Defense University.

March 14, 2013
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  • Milgard School of Business
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Institution-to-Institution internships pair students with local agencies

A new program at the University of Washington Tacoma will pair talented students with local agencies and businesses for year-long paid internships that emphasize community-based learning.

February 24, 2013
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New Museum of Glass exhibits curated by UW Tacoma interns

Two new exhibits at the Museum of Glass are the result of a year of work by seven UW Tacoma students.

January 27, 2013
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