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Snow Stories

When campus is "closed" for inclement weather, there is still a lot going on behind the scenes to keep classes on track and prepare for reopening.
Tree Power

UW Tacoma Professor Orlando Baiocchi and a team of researchers are using trees to power Internet-of-Things-enabled sensors.
Bringing Nature to a Prison Cell

Exposure to nature, even through a brief gardening activity, can improve well-being among women in prison, a UW Tacoma-led study finds.
Found at Sea

A three-year stint aboard cruise ships set Associate Professor Vanessa de Veritch Woodside on a course to higher education.
Asking Hard Questions

For her master's thesis, graduate student TeyAnjulee Leon explored issues of race in higher education.

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New apartments set aside for homeless UWT students Subscription

Tacoma Housing Authority is partnering with Koz Development to subsidize rents at 52 units in a new micro-apartment building across the street from campus. The relationship was facilitated by student leaders.

The News Tribune

January 9, 2019

Murray Morgan's historic 'Puget's Sound' gets an update

A new edition, published by UW Press, of the classic history of Tacoma by locally born-and-bred Murray Morgan includes a foreward by Michael Sullivan, long-time part-time lecturer in history at UW Tacoma.

MyNorthwest

December 26, 2018

Here's how GET and DreamAhead -- Washington's two college savings plans -- stand after $1 billion shift Subscription

Washington's education savings program keys the price of investment to "the cost of a year's tuition and fees at the state's most expensive [public] campus," which was UW Tacoma in 2018 (by $54).

Spokane Spokesman-Review

December 24, 2018

Hopes, scars of '68 still show in Memphis

The latest installment in a yearlong USA Today series of stories and videos on Memphis in 1968 features a quote from Michael Honey, Haley Professor of Humanities and author of "To the Promised Land: Martin Luther King and the Fight for Economic Justice."

USA Today

December 17, 2018

'I didn't believe in myself': The journey from foster-care chaos to a loving family and UW's halls Subscription

This profile of first-year UW Tacoma student Marshelle Frelix, written as part of The Seattle Times Fund for the Needy series, celebrates the role of foster-child supporter Treehouse and its Graduation Success program.

The Seattle Times

December 5, 2018

Trump Repeatedly Errs on California Wildfires

A detailed analysis of Pres. Donald Trump's recent statements on California wildfires includes quotes from UW Tacoma Assistant Professor Maureen Kennedy.

FactCheck.org

November 27, 2018

The Human Side of Urban Evolution: Integrating Identity and Community with Research

Assistant Professor Christopher Schell calls on life scientists to "engage with the diversity of peoples in our cities to more holistically recognize the socio-ecological processes that contribute to urban evolution."

Life in the City: Urban Evolution in an Urbanizing World

November 19, 2018

High tech Huskies: 10 tech startups from the University of Washington

A curated list of 10 companies that are built on technology developed at UW includes KenSci, co-founded by Dr. Ankur Teredesai and based on research done at UW Tacoma.

Built In Seattle

November 19, 2018

Thousand Oaks shooting: What led Ian David Long to commit mass murder?

Social Work & Criminal Justice Associate Professor Eric Madfis's worked with colleague Jack Levin in 2009 to develop a "sequential model to understand mass shootings at schools."

ABC 7 San Francisco

November 8, 2018