The Next Step Scholarship endowment provides significant support to allow one student each from seven local community colleges to complete their bachelor's degrees at the University of Washington Tacoma.
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.
The Encyclopedia of Puget Sound, a new tool for networked science, will be curated by the Puget Sound Institute at UW Tacoma.
The Math-Science Leadership program at UW Tacoma preps students for college and career.
The UW Tacoma Convocation is both a revival of an early campus tradition (the last one was held in 1999) and the first one ever of its type, designed to demonstrate the campus's tight affinity with its community.
A new vocal ensemble, called World Voices, is open to students on a credit/no-credit basis, and to anyone (staff, faculty and members of the community) who wishes to learn to sing in a safe and energetic environment without enrolling for academic credit.
Social Work professor Rich Furman is the 2012 recipient of the Partners in Advancing International Education award from the Council on Social Work Education.
Dr. Divya McMillin, the recipient of the 2012 Distinguished Research Award, is a groundbreaking scholar in the field of international communication.
The Class of 2012 is the largest in UW Tacoma history, with 1,341 newly-minted alumni. At the ceremony in the Tacoma Dome, Susan Dreyfus will deliver the Commencement keynote address.
A three-year Ed.D. program will launch in summer 2013. Enrolling 30 students, the program will offer three options: P-12 Superintendent, Nursing Education and Higher Education.
