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.
Beacon Press is publishing a paperback edition of "All Labor Has Dignity," the collected speeches of Martin Luther King, Jr., edited by UW Tacoma's Michael Honey.
A $2 million, five-year grant from the U.S. Department of Education will establish the Communities of Practice for Teaching English Language Learners program.
Deirdre Evans has been named one of 20 Orange County, Calif., "Women to Watch" by OC Metro Magazine.
Charles Emlet will serve as a Fulbright Visiting Research Chair in Science and the Environment at McMaster University in Canada.
The KeyBank Professional Development Center will be led by Lisa Reeves, '92.
Twa-le Abrahamson, '02, air quality coordinator for the Spokane Tribe of Indians, is working to spread awareness of the hazardous legacy of the Midnite Mine on the Spokane Reservation.
Michelle Garner, associate professor of social work, is part of a research team that studies a housing project that allows chronically homeless people with severe alcohol problems to drink in their apartments.
Delilah Bruskas experienced first-hand the Washington foster-care system and is now helping to make connections between childhood experiences and adult health.
Harlan Patterson will come to UW Tacoma after serving as vice provost for planning and budgeting at UW in Seattle from 1997-2006.
