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Recent mentions of UW Tacoma in the news

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How a New Tech Competition Gives Rising Innovators a Head Start

The Center for Business Analytics at the Milgard School of Business and Sound Credit Union co-produced the FinTech Innovation Competition this year. One winner was UW Tacoma alumnus Leif Christensen.

South Sound Business
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Can ‘active forest management’ really reduce wildfire risk?

Focusing on Montana forests, the writer interviews a number of scientists, conservationists and elected officials on whether forests can be managed effectively to reduce wildfire. UW Tacoma's Maureen Kennedy is interviewed.

Montana Free Press
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Construction to start next month on UW Tacoma's mass timber building

Milgard Hall will be a 55,000 sq. ft. hub for engineering and innovation, built with mass timber technologies, housing the Global Innovation & Design Lab, the Milgard School of Business and the School of Engineering & Technology.

Seattle Daily Journal of Commerce
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UWT Welcomes A New Chancellor

Incoming Chancellor Sheila Edwards Lange talks about her deep history with UW, her connections to Tacoma and her experience as a first-generation college student.

Tacoma Weekly
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Rosalie Fish Wants to Be the Face of Change

UW Tacoma alumna Autumn McCloud, '12, is the mother of Rosalie Fish, new UW track athlete, member of the Cowlitz Tribe and descendent of the Muckleshoot Tribe. Fish's athleticism is in part inspired by her desire to spread awareness about missing and murdered Indigenous women.

The Ringer
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Salmon-killing tires get congressional hearing

WSU's Jenifer McIntyre gave testimony before the House Natural Resources Committee recently on work that she and UW Tacoma's Ed Kolodziej have done to identify what is killing coho salmon before they have a chance to spawn: a toxic substance, 6PPD-quinone, derived from a rubber tire preservative.

KUOW
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Researchers tackle Dungeness crab population concerns

Ashley Benson, '20, Biomedical Sciences, is helping to try to figure out why populations of Dungeness crabs in southern areas of Puget Sound are declining precipitously.

KIRO 7 News
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FinTech Incubator Winners Announced

Leif Christensen, '21, Computer Science & Systems, took first prize in the FinTech Incubator Competition, sponsored by the UW Tacoma Center for Business Analytics and Sound Credit Union.

South Sound Business
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Advice to parents adopting a child of another race

The author, JaeRan Kim, is an assistant professor in UW Tacoma's School of Social Work & Criminal Justice. She calls on professionals and parents "who adopt transracially to abandon color-blind and color-evasive attitudes."

AdoptUSKids blog
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Meeting in the Middle

Thomas Kuljam and Stan Emert created the Students Assisting Business program in the Milgard School of Business, matching undergraduate students with real-world organizational challenges.

South Sound Business
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Seattle Startup Ventures Shine Brighter in Tech Industry

The Seattle area is home to dozens of brand new startups. KenSci, a health metrics company co-founded by UW Tacoma's Dr. Ankur Teredesai and a role model for tech entrepreneurs, was recently acquired by Tegria.

Illumination via Medium
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How Long Until Citizen Gets Someone Killed?

The self-described "public safety" app Citizen augments cell phone user location data with crowdsourced videos and photos to engage users in realtime crime interactions that some call vigilantism. Associate Professor Jim Thatcher is quoted.

Mother Jones
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Recruiting is Job No. 1

Tech companies have to get creative in recruiting top talent in the Puget Sound region. Tatiana Linardopoulou, '21, Computer Science & Systems, got an internship with Namatad founder (and UW Tacoma faculty member) Matt Tolentino which then turned into a full-time position.

Puget Sound Business Journal
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Fewer than half of high schools teach computer science. These educators want to change that

Computer science alumnus Naren Meadem's visa challenges in the U.S. led him to return to India, where he now owns three startups employing 40 people. The U.S. is losing its competitive advantage as a tech powerhouse, and a solution could be expanding computer science education in high schools.

The Hechinger Report via PBS NewsHour
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New Higher Education Center Coming to Federal Way

UW Tacoma is partnering with Highline College, the City of Federal Way and the Federal Way School District to open a higher education center, The Hub, in downtown Federal Way.

South Sound Business
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Is inflation right now a good thing?

KUOW's "The Record" host Bill Radke interviews UW Tacoma economist Will McGuire on the pandemic's effect on prices.

KUOW- NPR
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40 Under 40 | 2021

Saralyn Smith, program manager at UW Tacoma's Professional Development Center, is on South Sound Business's list of 40 people under the age of 40 who are making a difference in the South Sound community.

South Sound Business
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Tacoma Emergency Response Tech Forged by Fire

Assistant Professor of electrical and computer engineering Matt Tolentino is also CEO and founder of Namatad, a spin-out of technology from UW Tacoma that will allow tracking of personnel in dangerous situations like fires and battle zones.

Economic Development Board of Tacoma-Pierce County
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