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Bill Smitherman served in the Washington legislature, representing the 26th district (Gig Harbor, some of Tacoma, Key Peninsula) from 1983-90. He chaired the Senate Higher Education Committee and championed legislation that created UW Tacoma.
The exhibition at Bonney Lake Justice & Municipal Center includes work by LeShawn Gamble, '19, Psychology.
UW Tacoma is the least expensive public university in Washington, according to this calculation.
Dr. Ali Modarres, Urban Studies, one of four experts quoted, says a regional approach to housing affordability is good, and that the South Sound Housing Affordability Partners needs to providing public land and increase public funding for housing.
Associate Professor Emeritus Beverly Naidus has an exhibition of her work at The Gallery at Tacoma Community College.
Dr. Ali Modarres is one of four regional housing experts quoted on strategies a new South Sound inter-governmental board can take to expand the supply of affordable housing.
Five of the 2021 Jane's Fellows have UW Tacoma connections: Daniel Akamine, Ed.D. program; Kim Ellefson, online criminal justice; Kristin Pool, '10, nursing; Lakecia Farmer, master of community planning program; Yvette Donde, psychology.
ASUWT President André Jimenez has been hired by the Washington State Historical Society to run their new Diversity in Local History grant program.
In an installment of their daily satellite photo series, NASA shares images showing how logs knocked into Spirit Lake by the eruption of Mount St. Helens have formed a mat that migrates from one end of the lake to the other. Environmental Science's Jim Gawel is quoted.
Laurel Turner graduated from UW Tacoma in 2003 with a major in interdisciplinary arts and sciences and a minor in non-profit management.
Dr. EC Cline is quoted on the stature of Dune and Tacoma-born author Frank Herbert in the science fiction canon.
Assistant Professor Luna Zhang is quoted on supply-chain disruptions, product shortages and shipping delays that seem to be a hallmark of COVID-19 recovery.
Troy Serad, 10, Urban Studies, proposes extending Sound Transit's Tacoma Dome Link extension all the way into downtown Tacoma, with a stop in front of the UW Tacoma campus.
Computer science alumna Aygun A. talks about work-life balance. She prioritized working enough hours to pay back student loans, pay down her mortgage and helping her parents financially.
Christy Ross, '11 (BSW), '13 (MSW), has joined the behavioral health team at Mason Health, Shelton, Wash.
A new research-oriented Ph.D. in computer science will help incubate a new generation of South Sound start-ups.
Milgard School's Luna Zhang says supply-chain challenges are mostly due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
In a story about increasing exposure to wildfire smoke in our region, Associate Professor Robin Evans-Agnew talks about the resulting increased prevalence of asthma and its inequitable burden on society.
Ken Grassi, who served as mayor of University Place and operated a restaurant and boutique in UW Tacoma's Pagni & Lenti Building for 23 years, has died.
Investigative piece on health equity research includes discussion of a research paper on reproductive justice by Dr. Robin Evans-Agnew in the School of Nursing & Healthcare Leadership.
Fanny Castro, '21, Business Administration, talks about her life-changing experience at UW Tacoma.
The Hub: Federal Way Higher Education Center opens Sept. 27. The 7,300-square-foot space is a collaboration of UW Tacoma, Highline College, Federal Way School District and the City of Federal Way.
SIAS Assoc. Prof. Maureen Kennedy is quoted on how fire chiefs are leveraging Indigenous fire-management knowledge of controlled burns and fuel reduction to mitigate the strength of wildfires and protect valuable assets.
James Davis, killed in an Auburn car crash, was registered as a UW Tacoma student for autumn 2021.
UW Tacoma's vaccination clinic partnership with MultiCare is cited in the context of the county's low vaccination rates.
The Center for Business Analytics at the Milgard School of Business and Sound Credit Union co-produced the FinTech Innovation Competition this year. One winner was UW Tacoma alumnus Leif Christensen.
UW Tacoma has two Tsutakawa sculptures on campus: Maru, prominently featured in this feature story, and Yantra, in the south lobby of the Mattress Factory.
Associate Professor Jeff Cohen calls on the Tacoma School Board to listen to Tacoma students on their concerns about the presence of law enforcement officers in Tacoma schools.
Focusing on Montana forests, the writer interviews a number of scientists, conservationists and elected officials on whether forests can be managed effectively to reduce wildfire. UW Tacoma's Maureen Kennedy is interviewed.
Milgard Hall will be a 55,000 sq. ft. hub for engineering and innovation, built with mass timber technologies, housing the Global Innovation & Design Lab, the Milgard School of Business and the School of Engineering & Technology.
Assistant Professor Maureen Kennedy is co-author of this summary of her recent research into wildfires, climate change and fire suppression policies.
UW Tacoma students from the Pacific Islander Student Association will join Orca Annie Stateler and Odin Lonning to perform as part of an Indigenous-centered opening of Created Commons in Seattle.
Associate Professor Robin Zape-tah-hol-ah Minthorn is quoted on why enrollments of Indigenous students are declining in higher education institutions during the pandemic.
Top Down Brewery co-founders Chad Cray and Greg Burd are both graduates of the Professional Development Center's craft beer program.
Joseph Evans, '00, has been appointed to serve as a judge in Pierce County Superior Court.
Incoming Chancellor Sheila Edwards Lange talks about her deep history with UW, her connections to Tacoma and her experience as a first-generation college student.
Traveling KING 5 reporters profile Sumner, Wash., and mention that the downtown is implementing improvements recommended by UW Tacoma Urban Design students.
SIAS Assistant Professor Maureen Kennedy is leading new research looking at the longer-term future of wildfires under scenarios of increased temperature and drought.
SET alumni Andrew Bruce and Clinton Sizemore are instructors in two new Green River College Enumclaw degree programs on cybersecurity and drone operations.
SIAS's Maureen Kennedy is quoted on evidence from Oregon's Bootleg Fire (2021) and Arizona's Wallow Fire (2011) that forest thinning and controlled burns reduce the intensity of wildfires.
UW Tacoma alumna Autumn McCloud, '12, is the mother of Rosalie Fish, new UW track athlete, member of the Cowlitz Tribe and descendent of the Muckleshoot Tribe. Fish's athleticism is in part inspired by her desire to spread awareness about missing and murdered Indigenous women.
The newest academic building on the UW Tacoma campus, Milgard Hall, has broken ground. A three-story, 55,000-square-foot structure with classrooms, space for the Milgard School of Business and labs for the School of Engineering & Technology, the building will use cross-laminated timber technology.
Isola Homes is building an eight-story, 152-unit residential project at 1942 Fawcett Ave., within the UW Tacoma campus footprint on privately-owned land.
Dr. Maureen Kennedy is quoted on the "circular" problem of huge fires, extreme weather conditions and the difficulty suppressing fires under those conditions.
WSU's Jenifer McIntyre gave testimony before the House Natural Resources Committee recently on work that she and UW Tacoma's Ed Kolodziej have done to identify what is killing coho salmon before they have a chance to spawn: a toxic substance, 6PPD-quinone, derived from a rubber tire preservative.
Ashley Benson, '20, Biomedical Sciences, is helping to try to figure out why populations of Dungeness crabs in southern areas of Puget Sound are declining precipitously.
Among the UW faculty elected are Dr. Joel Baker, professor and Port of Tacoma Chair in Environmental Science, director of the Puget Sound Institute and science director of the Center for Urban Waters.
UW announced that Dr. Sheila Edwards Lange, currently president of Seattle Central College, will become the next UW Tacoma chancellor. This story was also covered by Puget Sound Business Journal, The Seattle Medium, the Capitol Hill Blog, and UW News.
Part-time lecturer and local historian Kim Davenport has been compiling Tacoma's music history via her blog and for the Tacoma Historical Society.
Leif Christensen, '21, Computer Science & Systems, took first prize in the FinTech Incubator Competition, sponsored by the UW Tacoma Center for Business Analytics and Sound Credit Union.
