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Research by Associate Professor Ed Kolodziej and the Center for Urban Waters into 6PPD-quinone is giving new impetus to statewide partnerships that remove old tires from the state's marine waters.
A follow-up to an earlier story about capacity constraints at UW Allen School, this showcases UW Tacoma's computer science program, with photos of and quotes from students, alumni and faculty.
Associate Professor Eric Madfis is a nationally-recognized expert on school violence. News Tribune columnist Matt Driscoll talks to him about the role of threat assessment, and the importance of students having trusting relationships with school personnel.
KeyBank, UW Foster School of Business, UW Tacoma Milgard School of Business and TheWMarketplace are hosting a pitch contest for women-owned businesses in the Puget Sound area.
Associate Professor Eric Madfis is studying a threat assessment protocol developed in Oregon's Salem-Keiser school district. His preliminary results show the method works to keep students in school and to solve the issues and conflicts at the root of school violence.
Assistant Professor Weichao Yuwen's app and chatbot, called COCO, are meant to help caregivers take care of themselves.
In his research, Associate Professor Eric Madfis has found that American society's focus on raising boys to be "tough and macho and aggressive" contributes to a sense of "male grievance" in perpetrators of mass shootings.
Associate Professor Eric Madfis is interviewed along with Northwestern University's Lori Post on the connections between mental health, masculinity and mass shootings.
Greg Urquhart, now a Ph.D. student at WSU, is a 2011 UW Tacoma psychology alumnus. A military veteran, he is serving his practicum in UW Tacoma's student mental health clinic.
Associate Professor Eric Madfis notes that perpetrators of mass shootings tend to commit their acts at "crucial life transition stages," and that, at age 18, high school seniors often can purchase guns legally.
Military veteran and current WSU Ph.D. student Greg Urquhart, a member of the Eastern Band Cherokee Tribe, is a 2011 UW Tacoma psychology alumnus, and is serving his counseling practicum in the UW Tacoma student mental health office.
The work of urban design students on the redesign of a plaza and walkway connecting Broadway to Commerce Street is mentioned, and the proximity of the UW Tacoma campus is cited as an asset to creation of a pedestrian precinct.
Research by Associate Professor Ed Kolodziej and the Center for Urban Waters is the basis of regulations proposed by California to require manufacturers to remove 6PPD from rubber tires.
Military veteran entrepreneurs and their start-ups are featured, including Assistant Professor Matt Tolentino and his company Namatad.
Chancellor Sheila Edwards Lange spoke at the ribbon cutting for The HUB: Federal Way Higher Education Center, a collaboration of UW Tacoma, City of Federal Way, Federal Way Public Schools and Highline College.
In an article describing how Miami University of Ohio built a relationship with the Miami Tribe of Oklahoma, Associate Professor Robin Zape-tah-hol-ah Minthorn is quoted on best practices for university leaders in building such relationships.
The popular video game that UW Tacoma alumnus Eric Barone created single-handedly is "selling at a faster pace than ever before."
Psychology Professor Carolyn West says "Women and children will die" with reduced access to abortion in the U.S.
ASUWT President and UW Tacoma student Andre Jimenez participated in a symposium hosted by the Institute for Black Justice on the 1969 Mother's Day Disturbance.
The Chinese Reconciliation Project Foundation is producing a video series on the history of Tacoma. The first is on Japanese internment during WWII. "Becoming Nisei: Japanese American Urban Lives in Pre-war Tacoma," by Drs. Lisa Hoffmann and Mary Hanneman, is mentioned.
UW Tacoma is co-producing, with Tacoma Little Theatre and Toy Boat Theatre, Quiara Alegria Hudes's The Happiest Song Plays Last, starring UW Tacoma Assistant Teaching Professor Maria-Tania Bandes Becerra Weingarden.
Nine economic and policy experts, including UW Tacoma's Katie Baird, Anna Lovasz and Tim Scharks, call on voters to reject I-1929, which would repeal the capital gains tax established by the legislature in 2021.
Jon Scott, '96, most recently served as a senior trial attorney with the Snohomish County Public Defender Association.
Cites the experience of and quotes alumna Anneliese Simons, '07, master of social work, who recently successfully got access to the loan forgiveness program.
The region's economic development agency describes Milgard Hall, UW Tacoma's newest building project.
Illia Meresenko, who transferred to UW Tacoma from Edmonds Community College to study information technology, is from Ukraine. He describes the impact of Russia's war on himself and his family.
Associate Professor Ed Kolodziej led a team that identified chemicals present in Seattle's Thornton Creek, and demonstrated the effectiveness of the creek's restored hyporheic zone at removing those chemicals.
The article notes Tim Johnson's involvement in The HUB: Federal Way Higher Education Center, a collaboration among UW Tacoma, Federal Way, Federal Way Public Schools and Highline College.
This roundup of new Tacoma eateries includes Crisp Greens, a UW Tacoma tenant on Pacific Avenue.
The South Sound Sustainability Expo will take place along UW Tacoma's Prairie Line Trail.
UW Tacoma and Tacoma Little Theatre present The Happiest Song Plays Last, directed by Marilyn Bennett and featuring Assistant Teaching Professor Maria-Tania Bandes B. Weingarden.
GSBA also honored UW Tacoma Chancellor Sheila Edwards Lange as Community Leader of the Year.
A rally for salmon in downtown Tacoma started on the UW Tacoma campus.
UW Tacoma Associate Professor of Education Robin Zape-Tah-Hol-Ah Minthorn will keynote the 49th annual symposium at Northeastern State University in Oklahoma.
Competitors from all three UW campuses and across Washington state are invited to propose their innovative financial technology ideas.
The Milgard School of Business is inviting submissions for the second annual UW FinTech Pitch Competition beginning March 28.
School of Engineering and Technology Associate Professor Anderson Nascimento is quoted on the security of the technology underlying cryptocurrencies.
UW Tacoma student Brooklyn Jennings, Law & Policy, has received the Martha and Jeff Johnson Scholarship to travel to Peru.
Negative crime trends we are experiencing are symptomatic of larger, system-wide failings. School of Social Work & Criminal Justice Assistant Professors Janelle Hawes and Ken Cruz are quoted.
Australian researchers have identified 6PPD-Quinone, a substance derived from tire preservatives in that country's waters. A team led by UW Tacoma's Ed Kolodziej and the Center for Urban Waters first identified the substance in the U.S.
David Boe, part-time lecturer in the School of Urban Studies and former Tacoma City Council member, asked students to redesign the downtown area between Broadway, Commerce, 9th and 11th Streets. News Tribune writer Matt Driscoll sat in on the class.
Campus planners are putting together a request for proposals to build a residence hall-like building that includes food service, such as a dining hall, through a public/private partnership.
Over the next seven years, the NSF funds will provide student scholarships, mentoring, research participation and an optional on-campus living community for students pursuing studies in science, technology, engineering and math.
Christopher Beasley, UW Tacoma assistant professor of psychology, discusses barriers he faced in academia as a formerly incarcerated individual.
Joel Baker, professor and science director of the Center for Urban Waters, says that glitter is a constituent of microplastic pollution in the ocean.
Amazon employees interested in attending UW Tacoma may now have up to 100% of their college tuition costs covered by the company, through its newly-expanded Career Choice program.
In an excerpt from an upcoming edited volume, Chancellor Sheila Edwards Lange discusses the competence in issues of diversity, equity and inclusion expected of college presidents.
Theo Partner Investments says the growth of the UW Tacoma campus is one factor in its decision to build a 144-unit apartment project at S. Tacoma Ave. S. and S. 17th St., across from the northwest corner of campus.
All three UW campuses will host in-person ceremonies at the end of spring quarter. UW Tacoma will host its June 13 event at the Washington State Fairgrounds.
