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The 2023 VIBE Business Plan Competition is open to all Washington college students and those who graduated between 2020 and 2022. Submissions are due Feb. 3.

The 10th cohort of this leadership program includes alumna and current Master of Social Work student Christina Qiao, '19, alumnus Jake Nau, '17, and current social welfare student Maira Mariscal.

Former faculty member and alumna Jan Runbeck writes about recent deaths of local housing advocate Maureen Howard and Terry, a homeless individual. She calls for their deaths “to be the impetus for making our country a better place for all, the fortunate and the forgotten.”

UW Tacoma Economics Professor Katie Baird calls on the Wash. State Supreme Court to uphold the capital gains tax passed by the Legislature in its 2021 session, in order to adequately fund child care, especially for rural areas of the state.

A UW Tacoma Urban Design studio class partnered with the city of Sumner to recommend redesigns to downtown Sumner streets and parks. The City is now seeking public input on the changes.

UW Tacoma alumna Abigail Lawson and others are interviewed about the impact of Tacoma's guaranteed basic income pilot, called GRIT.

Assistant Professor Rubén Casas discusses the potential to activate a downtown Tacoma plaza adjacent to campus.