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Microplastics threaten oceans, marine life

UW Tacoma's Center for Urban Waters, led by Dr. Joel Baker, hopes to become a center for the study of a newly-emerging threat -- microplastic pollution.


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History professor earns civil rights book award

Dr. Michael Honey was awarded the Organization of American Historians' Liberty Legacy Foundation Award for "Going Down Jericho Road: The Memphis Strike, Martin Luther King's Last Campaign."


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Baird named Fulbright Scholar

UW Tacoma Associate Professor Katie Baird has been awarded a Fulbright Scholar grant to lecture on economics and perform research on education policy at the University of Pais Vasco in Bilbao, Spain, during the 2007-2008 academic year.


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Faculty member hired for Port of Tacoma Chair

The University of Washington Tacoma has hired Dr. Joel Baker, a leading researcher of water pollution in marine environments, as the first holder of the Port of Tacoma Chair.