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News Stories by Brian Anderson

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Assistant Vice Chancellor for Marketing & Creative Services

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Peer-to-Peer

UW Tacoma Associate Professor Sushil Oswal and recent graduate Allison Kruse co-authored a research paper on barriers to higher education for students with bipolar disorder.

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Helping Students RISE

The Center for Equity and Inclusion's Levon Williams has developed a pilot program to help first-year students succeed.

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Student Leader Halfway around the World

A military-contracted fuel specialist completes his business course work with classmates while abroad in Afghanistan. Bernard Higgins is a role model in how he makes time to advance his education while serving our country.

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'Renegade Professor of English'

Raised in the South at a time when women were supposed to be wives and mothers, UW Tacoma Senior Lecturer Nicole Blair defied expectations and became an accomplished teacher, musician and author.

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Protecting Privacy by Sharing Secrets

Using machine learning and a cryptographic technique called 'secret sharing,' UW Tacoma researchers have developed a way to screen social media content for hate-speech while protecting the privacy of users.

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Remembering Keshia Korman

Keshia Korman, who served in the School of Education at UW Tacoma as Director of Field Placements and Partnerships, as well as a Field Supervisor and Lecturer in the Teacher Certification Programs, passed away on April 1.

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Tree Power

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

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Found at Sea

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

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Comic Books in the Classroom

Associate Professor Riki Thompson's "Writing through Comics" course gets students to think differently about the genre.