Associate Professor Anne Taufen Wessells will serve as faculty co-director and the primary UW Tacoma contact throughout the 2017-18 Livable City Year partnership with the City of Tacoma.
Graduating senior Jacob Nau developed an idea for a literary journal on homelessness with his classmates in Abby Murray's editing and publishing class. Now the journal is online, in print and on the streets.
Assistant Professor Sharon Laing wants to use apps to connect low-income patients to health care.
The Institute of Technology's Ka Yee Yeung has a growing collaboration with medical personnel in Madigan Army Medical Center, using bioinformatics to look for genetic markers of disease potential.
UW Tacoma Lecturer Abby Murray is helping veterans and military dependents express themselves in her writing workshops.
On the fifteenth anniversary of the 9/11 attacks, UW Tacoma's Susan Wagshul-Golden reflects on her experience at Ground Zero.
Dr. Linda Ishem, Urban Studies Program, is the recipient of the 2013 UW Tacoma Distinguished Community Engagement Award.
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.
The degree, a collaboration with the Washington National Guard cybersecurity unit at Camp Murray, is the only such program outside the National Defense University.
A new program at the University of Washington Tacoma will pair talented students with local agencies and businesses for year-long paid internships that emphasize community-based learning.
