A longtime supporter of UW Tacoma and a leader in the South Sound business community, James A. Milgard, Sr. was one of the namesakes of the Milgard School of Business.
Over 400 students across the University of Washington, including 17 UW Tacoma NextGen students thronged the state Capitol for Huskies on the Hill on February 3, 2025.
The Collaborative Leadership Program, with the Milgard School of Business and UW Evans School of Public Policy and Governance, is bringing together the wisdom of the past with up-and-coming leaders to expand cross-generational and interdisciplinary collaboration of complex issues such as land stewardship, community planning, and housing insecurity.
Summer and Fall 2024 brought exciting projects to the UW Tacoma Global Innovation and Design (GID) Lab, as clients in business, industry, government, education, and non profit sectors grappled with moving policies to action and removing barriers to critical resources.
The Institute for Innovation and Global Engagement (IIGE) orientation on October 9, 2024, celebrated 20 years of Global Honors and featured an Ideathon to brainstorm themes for the 2025 Global Engagement Conference.
The Washington Air National Guard, in partnership with the Milgard Women's Initiative, hosted its first engagement for female leaders from the Royal Thai Air Force (RTAF) at Camp Murray, Sept. 9-13, 2024.
Shailendra Pratap and Shalini Sarin Jain have co-authored a groundbreaking book titled Managing Brand Transgressions: 8 Principles to Transform Your Brand, offering a comprehensive roadmap for navigating brand crises, with numerous real-world case studies from the past 50 years.
UW Tacoma has been accepted into KEEN, the Kern Entrepreneurial Engineering Network, dedicated to training engineers to have an entrepreneurial mindset.