Global Honors, UW Tacoma's undergraduate honors program, makes the world seem a smaller, more familiar place, according to its students.
Gerard Tsutakawa has designed a 9-foot-tall bronze artwork to be featured along the campus's Prairie Line Trail.
Six members of the Class of 2011 represent the determination, compassion, achievement and pluckiness that are the hallmarks of UW Tacoma alumni.
About 1,150 new graduates will swell the ranks of UW Tacoma alumni beyond 11,000.
Mary Bowlby, '99, is executive director of Old Town Tacoma's Job Carr Cabin Museum.
A new mentoring organization pairs college-educated women with middle- and high-school-age girls at risk of dropping out of school.
Timothy J. McClung, teacher at Twin Lakes Elementary School, is the UW Tacoma Distinguished Alumnus for 2010.
Mary Butschky, '01, runs Suited for Success, a nonprofit that provides interview and work clothes to low-income people looking for employment.
Kristen Shinohara, '06, teamed with Dr. Josh Tenenberg to research how blind people use, or are frustrated by, assistive technologies.
Jan Runbeck is the recipient of the UW Tacoma 2009 Distinguished Alumni Award. She was one of the country's first nurse practitioners, and generously volunteers her time and knowledge.
