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Healthcare Exploration Panel 2/15/22 12:30-2:30 via Zoom

Interested in a career in medicine, healthcare, or public health? Attend the Healthcare Exploration Panel on Feb. 15 from 12:30-2:30 pm. Hear from medical and healthcare professionals in a variety of fields, and ask them your questions! Open to all students.


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Rolling Up His Sleeves

Charles Emlet's experience as a social worker lead him to UW Tacoma and a career that changed our understanding of aging in vulnerable communities.


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Bridget Talebi: Planet Protector

As director of the Washington Conservation Corps, Urban Studies alumna Bridget Talebi, '05, is using her UW education to make Washington healthier, more just and more resilient.


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Internships bring Win-Win!

TJ Barr is a natural, competing in sports from an early age, high school and beyond. Winning athletic awards in basketball, football, then becoming a leader and organizer of enthusiast groups at college and pro sports events, even serving to officiate and coach. His experiences as a sports fan, plus marketing studies at UWTacoma Milgard School of Business have prepared him well for this internship. He gets it. It's all about the audience experience.


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Paris Weber: A Tight-Knit Community

In UW Tacoma's mechanical engineering program, Paris Weber found the intimate class size and connection to faculty she was seeking.


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The Accumulated Wisdom of Tom Diehm

After spending 24 years at UW Tacoma connecting social work students to agencies, Tom Diehm knows something about community building and the costs of field experience.


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Milgard Alumni Spotlight: Pat Bendon

The Milgard Alumni Engagement Office is proud to feature our next Alumni Spotlight on Pat Bendon, Business Administration ’13. Pat, a South Puget Sound native and current Tacoma resident, recently sat down to chat about his educational experience at Milgard and how his time as a Husky prepared him for his life and career.


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Looking Back at 2021

Fourteen stories from the past year that showcase the best of UW Tacoma.


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Closing the Gap

Abigail Lawson, '21, is helping others in her role as the director of Tacoma's guaranteed income program.