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Where curiosity meets community
At UW Tacoma, undergraduate students have ample opportunities to engage in research that tackles complex questions and creates tangible community solutions.
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Puyallup Tribe Teaches Tacoma Huskies the Art of a Warm Welcome
The Pacific Northwest will become part of the biggest sporting event on the planet when the FIFA World Cup arrives in Seattle. As the Puyallup Tribe of Indians makes history as the first Indigenous nation to formally take part, Tacoma Huskies are finding meaningful ways to contribute.
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From campus to capitol
The Washington State Legislative Internship Program represents a formative career development experience that shapes how college students — including Tacoma Huskies — understand public service, leadership and their role within the broader civic landscape.
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The art of the Olympics broadcast
As an Emmy-winning television producer and professor at UW Tacoma, Bill Kunz brings decades of television experience — including 16 Olympic Games — into the study of media, storytelling and live production.
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Tacoma Huskies Take the Stage
As Spring Awakening marks 20 years since its Broadway debut, UW Tacoma students and faculty are partnering with Tacoma Little Theatre to bring the award-winning musical to the local stage.
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Improvisation and making the case for play in serious places
With his new book, “Improvising With and In Higher Education: All Together Now,” UW Tacoma Associate Teaching Professor Luke Perone invites readers to rediscover play as a practice for collective learning and development.
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Husky Homecoming: Karrar Hashem (‘21) brings new location of Lune Cafe to UW Tacoma
As a graduate of the Milgard School of Business, Karrar Hashem ('21) is brewing success — literally. Now on his sixth outpost of Lune Cafe, the newest of which opened this summer on Pacific Avenue, Hashem is just steps away from his alma mater in Tacoma's historic downtown core.
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Students make 24-hour sprint to fix everyday money stress
The inaugural HuskyHack competition challenged students statewide to create solutions that help people navigate banking benefits and rewards programs.
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The Land Remembers: UW Tacoma’s Danica Miller on Indigenous Storytelling as Sovereignty, from Medicine Creek to the Modern Classroom
Miller is one of the curators behind “This is Native Land,” a new exhibition opening this fall at the Washington State History Museum in Tacoma.
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35 Years in the Making: UW Tacoma’s Convocation Welcomes a New Academic Year
The Prairie Line Trail, once the western terminus of the Northern Pacific Railroad, became a pathway to new beginnings during UW Tacoma’s Convocation.
