News Stories

Meet Tacoma's "Husky 100" students for 2025

A mix of students studying biomedical sciences, accounting, social work and computer science make up this year’s UW Tacoma contribution to the Husky 100.

IIGE Orientation Launches Year of Impact

The Institute for Innovation and Global Engagement (IIGE) orientation on October 9, 2024, celebrated 20 years of Global Honors and featured an Ideathon to brainstorm themes for the 2025 Global Engagement Conference.

Why Community is Key

Rafael Saucedo (’17, ’19), initially struggled in college until he found his community at UW Tacoma. Now he has made a career of helping others build community and financial health.

The Decennialists

The UW Tacoma community was well represented on the City of Tacoma’s once-every-ten-years charter review.

Welcome to the Class of 2024!

We are celebrating the amazing achievements of almost 1,800 newly-minted UW Tacoma degree holders.

IBJ's THRIVE CENTER TAKES FORM IN GID LAB

The Institute for Black Justice envisions a multicultural, integrated services delivery hub to serve communities in need. Design workshops and prototype testing from November 2023-February 2024 facilitated by the GID Lab produced a prototype of the THRIVE CENTER.

Join us Nov 30 to learn about graduate school

Interested in furthering your education? Come learn more about graduate school and the MA in Community Planning at UW Tacoma’s annual graduate program night on November 30, 2023 from 4:30-6:30pm. Please RSVP for the event here.

Good Man

Jeff Dade, '11, '20, this year's Distinguished Alumni Award recipient, is proof that not all heroes wear capes.

Building a Beloved Community

The largest gathering of faculty and staff since the pandemic came together recently to learn about and practice active listening, empathy and mindful inquiry.