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Ashley Ramirez Honored with 2025 Student Civic Leader Award

Ashley Ramirez, a senior in Law and Policy at UW Tacoma and a NextGen Civic Leader Corps student officer, received the 2025 Student Civic Leader Award from Washington Campus Coalition (WACC) for the Public Good.


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Quiet On The Set

Professor Carolyn West says the quiet part out loud — speaking publicly and raising awareness on the often stigmatized topics of domestic violence and sexual assault.


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Going with the data flow

Professor Ka Yee Yeung’s research is about making life easier for researchers working with big data. Now, she has become the first UW Tacoma faculty member honored as the Virginia & Prentice Bloedel Professor. She is using the endowment to give more students experience in research.


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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.


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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.


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The Students Become the Teachers

Alumni Ben Pauli and Vivian Kao (both SIAS ’05) have gone from one side of the classroom to the other. Their journey to becoming university professors started at UW Tacoma.


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Game Changer

Army veteran Heidi Lee’s passion for the business of sports is driving her success