UW Tacoma founding faculty member Mike Allen knows the territory between opposites, the space where creative tension lives. Wild and tame. Rural and urban. Conservative and liberal. Reality and illusion.
February 1, 2009
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.
December 29, 2008
Prof. Michael Honey says that with the election of Barack Obama, the U.S. is finally coming to terms with its own tumultuous history.
November 12, 2008
Journalism students from Russia and UW Tacoma got an up-close look at American-style journalism in action as election-night guests of the Tacoma-based News Tribune newspaper last night.
November 5, 2008
Experts from the United States, Australia, Japan, Netherlands and the United Kingdom will gather at the University of Washington Tacoma Sept. 9-10 for the first-ever international workshop on the pervasive problem of microplastics in the marine environment.
September 3, 2008
Dr. Michael Honey will be recognized for his book, "Going Down Jericho Road," at the Newseum in Washington, D.C. at a ceremony on May 27, 2008.
May 22, 2008
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."
March 31, 2008
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.
December 13, 2007
The "Bay Hero Award, Excellence in Environmental Education" recognizes the proposed Urban Waters program now under development.
October 8, 2007
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.
July 26, 2007
