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Dr. Margo Bergman receives 2021 Community Engagement Award

Dr. Margo Bergman is the recipient of the 2021 Community Engagement Award in Institutional and Systems Analytics. Dr. Bergman has played a central role in facilitating co-learning opportunities for students and regional partners.


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Without a Safety Net

UW Tacoma Professor Carolyn West has spent her storied career asking hard questions and exploring difficult subjects.


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A Good Place to Grow

Kirsten Hargett chose to study biomedical sciences because she wanted to stretch herself.


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Meet Altaf Merchant

Dean Altaf Merchant sees the Milgard School as a catalyst for entrepreneurship and social responsibility in the South Sound region.


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Engineering Something Amazing

Heather Dillon is a big believer in human-centered design, and student-centered engineering education.


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Sarah Smith Plumbs the Depths

Sarah Smith, senior in communications, recently completed a documentary about an underwater ocean observatory, learning more about “one of the most underexplored places known to humans.”


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From the Podcast: Racism Is a Public Health Crisis

“Racism is a stressor that causes wounds to the individuals who are exposed to it,” says Sharon Laing. Listen to Laing and Wendy Barrington in a two-part podcast from Paw’d Defiance.


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Unintended consequences of banning social media apps

Huatong Sun writes that despite efforts to wall off regional or national internets, social media companies will have to continue aggressively competing across borders if they are to grow.


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'Talking About the Hard Stuff'

The COVID-19 pandemic brought out the best in people and the worst, the latter being racism directed at the Asian American community.


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Love Story

UW Tacoma Associate Professor Riki Thompson researches online dating including how the digital age changed the way we tell stories about ourselves.