Social Work professor Rich Furman is the 2012 recipient of the Partners in Advancing International Education award from the Council on Social Work Education.
Krista Haugen, '98, is the recipient of the 2012 UW Tacoma Distinguished Alumni Award, recognizing her career as a flight nurse with Airlift NW and her work with the Survivors Network for Air and Surface Medical Transport.
Larry Knopp, professor and director of interdisciplinary arts and sciences, and Michael Brown, a geography professor at UW in Seattle, are piecing together how policies related to alcohol and public health shaped gay and lesbian life in Seattle pre-AIDS.
The Class of 2012 is the largest in UW Tacoma history, with 1,341 newly-minted alumni. At the ceremony in the Tacoma Dome, Susan Dreyfus will deliver the Commencement keynote address.
Beacon Press is publishing a paperback edition of "All Labor Has Dignity," the collected speeches of Martin Luther King, Jr., edited by UW Tacoma's Michael Honey.
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.
UW Tacoma student Thomas Green, studying social work, is being recognized with the 2011 Rod Hagenbuch Award for his advocacy on behalf of the homeless.