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.
Prof. Michael Honey says that with the election of Barack Obama, the U.S. is finally coming to terms with its own tumultuous history.
Journalism students from Russia and UW Tacoma got an up-close look at American-style journalism in action as election-night guests of the Tacoma-based News Tribune newspaper last night.
Experts from the United States, Australia, Japan, Netherlands and the United Kingdom will gather at the University of Washington Tacoma Sept. 9-10 for the first-ever international workshop on the pervasive problem of microplastics in the marine environment.
Dr. Michael Honey will be recognized for his book, "Going Down Jericho Road," at the Newseum in Washington, D.C. at a ceremony on May 27, 2008.
Dr. Michael Honey was awarded the Organization of American Historians' Liberty Legacy Foundation Award for "Going Down Jericho Road: The Memphis Strike, Martin Luther King's Last Campaign."
UW Tacoma Associate Professor Katie Baird has been awarded a Fulbright Scholar grant to lecture on economics and perform research on education policy at the University of Pais Vasco in Bilbao, Spain, during the 2007-2008 academic year.
The "Bay Hero Award, Excellence in Environmental Education" recognizes the proposed Urban Waters program now under development.
The University of Washington Tacoma has hired Dr. Joel Baker, a leading researcher of water pollution in marine environments, as the first holder of the Port of Tacoma Chair.
Two UW Tacoma students will have a chance to study journalism at Russia's Moscow State University as part of an intensive one-week travel opportunity in September.
