The Great Futures Fund will provide financial support and practical work experience to UW Tacoma students, who will mentor underprivileged youth in the nine locations of the Boys & Girls Clubs of South Puget Sound.
UW Tacoma is partnering with the Museum of Glass to offer a basic introduction to studio glass making methods, using the museum's world-renowned Hot Shop.
Rob Friedman comes to Tacoma from the New Jersey Institute of Technology, where he focused on merging humanities and technology.
Enrollment rose to 3,662 students, an almost 10 percent increase over 2010.
A $2.1M Scholarship for Service grant from the National Science Foundation will provide funding to 18 graduate students for cybersecurity education.
Diane Young comes to UW Tacoma from Syracuse University, and has a Ph.D. in Social Work from the UW School of Social Work.
The new degrees continue an ongoing shift in academic focus, away from concentrations and toward disciplinary majors.
The 2011 Paulsen Lecture will bring to UW Tacoma the investigative journalist best known for exposing the 1969 My Lai massacre in Vietnam.
Starting Sept. 1, Dr. James W. Harrington will support the academic dean and directors, and ensure integrity of the tenure and promotion process.
Michael Young and Debra Friedman sat down for a Q&A in a GWP conference room.
