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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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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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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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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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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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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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'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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Byron's Banishment

As recounted in UW Magazine, Byron Ragland’s encounter with police at a frozen yogurt shop shook his sense of belonging and reminded him that society’s doors still aren’t open to all.

June 26, 2019

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"Teamwork Makes the Dream Work"

It may be over, but the 2019 UW Tacoma Commencement lives on in video, photos and stories, proving (to crib from the poet John Donne) that no one is an island.

June 19, 2019