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Setting the Table

A love of cooking inspired Dr. Kima Cargill to study the psychology of food.

February 29, 2024

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A Culturally-Sensitive Chatbot

An NIH grant will help Weichao Yuwen and her collaborators adapt COCO, a caregivers' chatbot, to serve Latino communities.

October 5, 2023

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New Grant Will Expand Access to Native Knowledge

$225,000 from the Mellon Foundation will support American Indian and Indigenous (AII) community-building events, bring more AII voices to campus, and power a summer institute on Indigenous humanities.

May 24, 2023

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The Right Medicine

With Professor Sharon Laing's guidance, UW Tacoma student Lucas Bjorkheim is realizing his dream of becoming a doctor.

May 22, 2023

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Building a Moon Tower

Mechanical engineering student Amy Keller is putting her stamp, and UW Tacoma's, on the moon, via a life-changing internship with NASA.

March 24, 2023