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Welcome to Research at UW Tacoma
Our Mission
As an urban-serving university, the UW Tacoma aims to "foster scholarship, research, and creativity to address the challenging problems of our time and place." Our collective Scholarship mission as included in our 2022-27 Strategic Plan is to expand and support a broad range of teaching, research, and creative innovation.
Within this framework, the Office of Research in collaboration with campus partners aims to:
- Work with faculty to identify funding opportunities for individual research interests as well as high priority areas as identified by our campus leadership and community partners.
- Support the full proposal development and submission process
- Support faculty scholarship and professional development
- Provide research administration support to Research Centers such as the Center for Urban Waters
- Provide guidance on the Research Lifecycle to all active faculty researchers and staff across the UW Tacoma campus
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Research In the News
Connected through their leadership roles at a family resource center, UW Tacoma alumni Amalia Perez, Bryan Neal and Roxy Magno are dedicated to serving their community both personally and professionally.
Michael Kula was selected to serve as Fulbright Writer-in-Residence at Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, Poland. In addition to teaching courses in AMU’s Center for the Affirmation of Literature, he will be completing final research and revisions for his book, “The Long Alone,” a creative nonfiction account of the travels of Kazimierz Nowak, an amateur Polish journalist who bicycled alone across Africa in the 1930s.
Christopher Johnston, a UW Tacoma alumnus and program specialist in the Husky Post Prison Pathways (HP3) program, has been named one of Pierce College's 2025 Distinguished Alumni. The honor recognizes achievements in academics, business, community and humanitarian service, and personal triumph over adversity.
