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UW Tacoma student Maryam Al Darraji poses in front of a background of surgical lights. She is wearing a plaid suit and a red headscarf. Her left hand is folded across her stomach and her right hand is extended toward her chin with one finger touching her chin.

Dream Within Reach

May 10, 2022

UW Tacoma senior Maryam Al Darraji's dream to become a surgeon took her from Iraq to Jordan to Kent to UW Tacoma.

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Labor Solidarity Project Hosts Seminar on 'Revolutionary Nonviolence'

May 16, 2022

The event will feature a screening of a documentary on Rev. James Lawson, spiritual advisor to MLK, plus a discussion of nonviolent organizing and labor education by Dr. Kent Wong of UCLA, and local labor leaders commenting on the state of organizing in the northwest.

Honoring 2022 Business Leadership Award Winners

May 5, 2022

Read about Victoria Woodards, Maya Mendoza-Exstrom, Constance Trufant, Douglas Reed, Miriam Barnett and Randy Rushforth, recipients of the 20th annual Milgard School Business Leadership Awards.

Rain, Making It

May 2, 2022

A traumatic brain injury threatened to derail Rain Wilson's college career; but then she got the support she needed and she is now succeeding.

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Secrets of Success: 2022

South Sound Business writers Madison Miller, Blake Peterson, John Stearns, Stephanie Quiroz, and Hailee Wickersham interview successful South Sound professionals to discover how they overcame personal challenges and obstacles to achieve success.

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April 25, 2022

UW Tacoma Professor Awarded Grant to Address Youth Mental Health

Chieh (Sunny) Cheng, of the School of Nursing & Healthcare Leadership, received pilot funding from the UW Population Health Initiative to develop and test behavioral health promotion approaches in Tacoma Public Schools.

South Sound Business
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April 5, 2022

To Revive a River, Restore Its Liver

Associate Professor Ed Kolodziej led a team that identified chemicals present in Seattle's Thornton Creek, and demonstrated the effectiveness of the creek's restored hyporheic zone at removing those chemicals.

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April 1, 2022
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Happiness at Last

April 22, 2022

Live theater returns to UW Tacoma with "The Happiest Song Plays Last," in a collaboration with Tacoma Little Theater and Toy Boat Theatre.

Under Construction

April 15, 2022

Tacoma native Lorne Arnold is helping build UW Tacoma's new civil engineering program

Got a FinTech idea? Win $10,000

April 14, 2022

Competitors in the second annual statewide FinTech Incubator Challenge can submit their applications and pitch decks until May 17.

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