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.
With a cast composed of UW Tacoma students, a faculty member, an alumna and renowned South Sound actors, the Pulitzer-prize-winning play sold out five on-campus performances.
The Campaign for UW Tacoma, set to run through 2020, has already raised more than $23-million. Funds raised will support students, innovation and campus growth.
Urban Studies Senior Lecturer Linda Ishem had an extensive career in banking and community development. Then she was in a terrible car accident. Tacoma Weekly reports on how she remade her life.
Dawoud Bey, an internationally recognized artist and photographer, has been invited as a visiting artist to create portraits that represent the Tacoma community.