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The opening of the first section of the Prairie Line Trail, an urban linear park intended to connect Tacoma to a growing regional greenway system, was celebrated with speeches and a ribbon cutting.
A News Tribune editorial says a UW Tacoma law program would be a valuable source of locally-trained legal professionals, and calls on the community to fund the program's startup costs.
UW Tacoma's Center for Strong Schools' work on the Tacoma Whole Child Initiative with Tacoma Public Schools is profiled. 26 elementary, middle and high schools are involved.
UW Tacoma will use its part of a $412,000 grant from National Institute of Standards and Technology to expand cybersecurity and leadership studies among veterans.
UW Tacoma announced the opening of it's section of a new mile-long linear park in downtown Tacoma, traveling through the heart of campus on the route of the old BNSF (née Northern Pacific) railroad right-of-way.
Pat Shuman, president of Tacoma Community College Foundation, describes rationale for upcoming child-centered community symposium at UW Tacoma.
Elemental Pizza will open a restaurant in the Pagni & Lenti building, owned by UW Tacoma. Co-owner James Allard recently met with decendents of the Pagni family to reminisce about the grocery store that occupied the space starting in 1903.
The Seattle Times reviews the book Trying Home, by UW Tacoma librarian Justin Wadland.
Associate Professor Beverly Naidus was part of a panel dealing with race and art, put on in response to the recent production of The Mikado. The article includes Seattle Channel video of the event.
Associate Professor Barb Toews was an instructor in a program at San Francisco County Jail No. 5 that linked restorative justice with design as inmates were asked to envision how prison spaces could help prevent recidivism.
Civic leader and UW Tacoma champion Dawn Lucien is celebrated, as the Tacoma Room on campus is renamed as the Dawn Lucien Room.
Pat Clark, director of campus planning and real estate, and Mike Wark, director of external relations, describe upcoming campus renovation plans.
Sam Shelton, a student in UW Tacoma Master of Social Work program, interns at the Tacoma-Pierce County Health Department.
UW Tacoma, particularly its technology programs, contributes to Tacoma’s current economic recovery.
The Math-Science Leadership program is part of a growing movement to bring STEM education to traditionally underrepresented groups.
The University of Washington Tacoma is hoping to improve retention with a daily support message sent to each student's mobile device.
Professor Michael Honey's new book Sharecropper's Troubadour tells the story of folk singer and activist John Handcox.
Brooke Gladstone interviews School of Urban Studies' Jim Thatcher (then at Clark University) on tech companies leveraging locational data from cell phones.
Chancellor Debra Friedman is proposing to bring legal education to the South Sound by hosting a second location for the UW School of Law.
