Dr. Annette Henry has received the Distinguished Contributions to Gender Equity in Education Research Award from the American Educational Research Association.
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.
James A. Milgard and the Gary E. Milgard Family Foundation have made a $2 million donation to the University of Washington Tacoma to establish the campus' first endowed deanship.
UW Tacoma MBA alumnus Joseph Lawless will be the first executive director of the Milgard School of Business' Center for Corporate Leadership & Social Responsibility.
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.
Michael Honey, professor of history and UW Tacoma founding faculty member, has been named the first recipient of the university's new Fred T. and Dorothy G. Haley Endowed Professorship in the Humanities.