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Delilah Bruskas, Champion for Foster Children

Delilah Bruskas experienced first-hand the Washington foster-care system and is now helping to make connections between childhood experiences and adult health.


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Meet the 2011 Next Step Scholars

Each year, UW Tacoma awards scholarships to seven transfer students from the region's community colleges. The scholarship was created in 1998 through the generosity of 30 donors.


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Amazing grads from the Class of 2011

Six members of the Class of 2011 represent the determination, compassion, achievement and pluckiness that are the hallmarks of UW Tacoma alumni.


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Award-winning nurse believes in the Golden Rule

Jan Runbeck is the recipient of the UW Tacoma 2009 Distinguished Alumni Award. She was one of the country's first nurse practitioners, and generously volunteers her time and knowledge.


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Doctors support nurses through new UW Tacoma scholarship

Since October 2005, Koontz has convinced 31 area physicians and a number of other donors to contribute to the Physicians' Nursing Scholarship Fund, which partially covers tuition for current UW Tacoma nursing students.