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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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UW Tacoma holds conference on Native peoples in higher education

UW Tacoma will hold its first conference on higher education and Native Americans, featuring presentations that highlight contemporary issues facing Indigenous people in higher education, such as the absence of Indigenous heritage and history in academic courses and literature.


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Tacoma student named to UW Board of Regents

For the first time, a University of Washington Tacoma student will join the UW Board of Regents as the student representative for all three campuses (Seattle, Bothell and Tacoma).


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UW Tacoma to honor 900 at Commencement

Nearly 900 graduating students will be honored at UW Tacoma's 18th annual Commencement ceremony Friday, June 13, at 10 a.m. in the Tacoma Dome.


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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."