The UW Tacoma Convocation is both a revival of an early campus tradition (the last one was held in 1999) and the first one ever of its type, designed to demonstrate the campus's tight affinity with its community.
A $2 million, five-year grant from the U.S. Department of Education will establish the Communities of Practice for Teaching English Language Learners program.
The building, on the east bank of the Thea Foss Waterway, houses the City of Tacoma Environmental Services Division, UW Tacoma researchers and labs and the staff of the Puget Sound Partnership.
The Great Futures Fund will provide financial support and practical work experience to UW Tacoma students, who will mentor underprivileged youth in the nine locations of the Boys & Girls Clubs of South Puget Sound.
UW Tacoma is partnering with the Museum of Glass to offer a basic introduction to studio glass making methods, using the museum's world-renowned Hot Shop.
A new initiative led by Associate Professor Lisa Hoffman aims to create partnerships that benefit students and community members.
Harlan Patterson will come to UW Tacoma after serving as vice provost for planning and budgeting at UW in Seattle from 1997-2006.
Is being right 99.973 percent of the time close enough? Not according to Stephen Ross and panelists.
A project that began in a UW Tacoma classroom reveals the lively, but largely forgotten, stories of some of Tacoma’s oldest buildings in one of the city’s oldest neighborhoods.
Rob Friedman comes to Tacoma from the New Jersey Institute of Technology, where he focused on merging humanities and technology.
