The building, on the east bank of the Thea Foss Waterway, houses the City of Tacoma Environmental Services Division, UW Tacoma researchers and labs and the staff of the Puget Sound Partnership.
The new Urban Clean Water Innovation Partnership Zone will bring to UW Tacoma $2 million for a new "Clean Water Innovation Development and Technology Transfer Laboratory."
Michelle Garner, associate professor of social work, is part of a research team that studies a housing project that allows chronically homeless people with severe alcohol problems to drink in their apartments.
Talk of stormwater and storm drains sounds so gray, so grimy, so boring. Yet mention stormwater to UW Tacoma’s Brian Hite, Jacob Moore and John Pelerine, and get set for an animated discussion.
Students get paid internships with government offices, political campaigns, legal offices and non-profit organizations through a program of the Politics, Philosophy & Economics program.
Dr. Michael Honey, Haley Professor of Humanities at UW Tacoma, will record an oral history project on John Handcox, "an important but little-known figure in African American and labor history."
Haley Professor of Humanities and noted historian of civil rights Michael Honey is the author of a new collection of speeches by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
A $1.4 million grant to Drs. Marcy Stein and Diane Kinder from the U.S. Department of Education will fund a project to improve special education teacher preparation.