Teiya Shimomura: Helping to Remember
Alumna Teiya Shimomura's experience in the classroom connected her to a local historian and an opportunity.
May 11, 2023
Founding Stories
On the eve of our 30th anniversary, the UW Tacoma Library is spearheading a project to document the origins and development of UW Tacoma through oral history.
January 29, 2020
Keeping the Faith
The Tacoma Buddhist Temple, Sunya Pratt and Japantown come together in librarian Justin Wadland's latest research.
March 13, 2019
Art on Campus: Picasso's "Le Visage de la Paix"
A Picasso drawing in the UW Tacoma Library has traveled from Paris to Hiroshima to Tacoma in the name of peace.
January 4, 2019
Get Your Art Fix: Public Art on Campus
A guide to public art on the UW Tacoma campus lists more than 80 works by artists such as Pablo Picasso, Dale Chihuly, Gerard Tsutakawa and Dawoud Bey.
August 5, 2015
Japanese Language School: Part of Campus History
The history of a thriving pre-WWII Japanese American community in Tacoma will be commemorated via a sculpture by renowned artist Gerard Tsutakawa, to be installed along the Prairie Line Trail.
May 13, 2013
Tioga Library Building Opens
The 55,000 sq. ft. building houses three floors of space for library and learning resources, staff offices, and two floors of unprogrammed space for future growth.
October 23, 2012
Cammermeyer to highlight Nursing Program's 20th anniversary on May 17
Dr. Grethe Cammermeyer will keynote UW Tacoma Nursing Program's 20th anniversary celebration.
April 23, 2012
Public art to mark the Prairie Line Trail through UW Tacoma
“Temporal Terminus” will be on display now through the end of November.
November 10, 2011
Japanese Language School memorial to feature work of prominent sculptor
Gerard Tsutakawa has designed a 9-foot-tall bronze artwork to be featured along the campus's Prairie Line Trail.
August 17, 2011
