Serving as a bridge between the scientific community and agencies charged with restoring and protecting Puget Sound, the Institute is a collaboration of the Puget Sound Partnership, the UW College of the Environment and the UW Tacoma Center for Urban Waters.
Kathy Beaudoin will teach education students at the University of Rijeka, Croatia, and Bill Kunz will teach media studies at the University of the Ryukyus, in Okinawa, Japan.
Dr. Larry Knopp will be the new director of Interdisciplinary Arts & Sciences, UW Tacoma's largest academic program.
"Garden in the City" is a documentary video produced by Daniel Nash, '09, for a communication class at UW Tacoma in spring 2009.
The stories of five students in the class of 2009 symbolize the many paths graduates have taken to get to this point in their lives.
Nineteen grants in 2009 from two UW Tacoma endowments will help faculty, staff and students by supporting scholarship, research and campus improvements.
Beverly Naidus's art and teaching raise consciousness around social issues like body image, war, labor, globalization and environmental despoliation.
Dr. Claudia Gorbman has received the 2009-09 Distinguished Research Award, recognizing her research on film music.
UW Tacoma founding faculty member Mike Allen knows the territory between opposites, the space where creative tension lives. Wild and tame. Rural and urban. Conservative and liberal. Reality and illusion.
UW Tacoma's Center for Urban Waters, led by Dr. Joel Baker, hopes to become a center for the study of a newly-emerging threat -- microplastic pollution.
