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Welcome to Research at UW Tacoma
Our Mission
As an urban-serving university, the UW Tacoma aims to "foster scholarship, research, and creativity to address the challenging problems of our time and place." Our collective Scholarship mission as included in our 2022-27 Strategic Plan is to expand and support a broad range of teaching, research, and creative innovation.
Within this framework, the Office of Research in collaboration with campus partners aims to:
- Work with faculty to identify funding opportunities for individual research interests as well as high priority areas as identified by our campus leadership and community partners.
- Support the full proposal development and submission process
- Support faculty scholarship and professional development
- Provide research administration support to Research Centers such as the Center for Urban Waters
- Provide guidance on the Research Lifecycle to all active faculty researchers and staff across the UW Tacoma campus
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Research In the News
Associate Professor JaeRan Kim, whose research focuses on the experiences of adoptees, is featured in this deep dive into the fraught implications of the limited foster care pool for children of color, from exposure to racism at home to ‘growing up without reflections of their greatness and contributions to humanity.’
Sound Credit Union and UW Tacoma’s Milgard Center for Business Analytics are hosting their fourth annual FinTech Incubator Challenge that invites entrepreneurs to pitch new financial-technology ideas. Submission are due Oct. 16.
Shailendra Pratap and Shalini Sarin Jain have co-authored a groundbreaking book titled Managing Brand Transgressions: 8 Principles to Transform Your Brand, offering a comprehensive roadmap for navigating brand crises, with numerous real-world case studies from the past 50 years.
