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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.


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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.


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What Comes Next

Assistant Professor JaeRan Kim's research examines what happens after children are adopted and placed with new families.


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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.


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'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.


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An App a Day

Assistant Professor Sharon Laing wants to use apps to connect low-income patients to health care.


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Madigan Pairs With UW to Improve Medicine

The Institute of Technology's Ka Yee Yeung has a growing collaboration with medical personnel in Madigan Army Medical Center, using bioinformatics to look for genetic markers of disease potential.