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Looking for Answers
UW Tacoma Associate Professor Eric Madfis is a leading researcher in the study of school shootings and mass shootings.
September 5, 2018Main Content
$330,000 NSF Grant Expands Research on Toxic Pollutants in Urban Watersheds
Dr. Ed Kolodziej at the Center for Urban Waters is the lead researcher on a project with funding from the National Science Foundation that aims to identify what is killing coho salmon in urban watersheds.
July 31, 2018Main Content
Ali Modarres Is a Man About Towns
South Sound Business magazine recently published a feature story on Dr. Ali Modarres, UW Tacoma's Director of the Urban Studies Program.
June 27, 2018Main Content
Jim Gawel: Learning From a Lake
When Jim Gawel looks at a lake, he sees an opportunity to learn--not just for the students he instructs, but for entire populations who rely on and reside by those water bodies.
May 25, 2018Main Content
What Comes Next
Assistant Professor JaeRan Kim's research examines what happens after children are adopted and placed with new families.
May 23, 2018Main Content
Telling Their Stories
Assistant Professors Rachel Hershberg and Vanessa de Veritch Woodside are using interviews to understand the effects of detention on immigrants and refugees in the South Sound.
May 16, 2018Main Content
Multiple Versions of the Same Person
UW Tacoma faculty member Michelle Montgomery explores identity in her book about mixed-race American Indians.
May 9, 2018Main Content
'To the Promised Land'
Dr. Martin Luther King's message of economic justice is the subject of a new book by UW Tacoma historian Michael Honey.
March 29, 2018Main Content
University-city Partnership Seeks to Enhance Livability
Associate Professor Anne Taufen Wessells will serve as faculty co-director and the primary UW Tacoma contact throughout the 2017-18 Livable City Year partnership with the City of Tacoma.
June 20, 2017Main Content
An App a Day
Assistant Professor Sharon Laing wants to use apps to connect low-income patients to health care.
January 20, 2017