UW Medicine's MEDEX Northwest will open a physician assistant training location at UW Tacoma to tap into the large pool of returning military veterans.
The Next Step Scholarship endowment provides significant support to allow one student each from seven local community colleges to complete their bachelor's degrees at the University of Washington Tacoma.
The 55,000 sq. ft. building houses three floors of space for library and learning resources, staff offices, and two floors of unprogrammed space for future growth.
The UW Tacoma Convocation is both a revival of an early campus tradition (the last one was held in 1999) and the first one ever of its type, designed to demonstrate the campus's tight affinity with its community.
A new vocal ensemble, called World Voices, is open to students on a credit/no-credit basis, and to anyone (staff, faculty and members of the community) who wishes to learn to sing in a safe and energetic environment without enrolling for academic credit.
Social Work professor Rich Furman is the 2012 recipient of the Partners in Advancing International Education award from the Council on Social Work Education.
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.