The 55,000 sq. ft. building houses three floors of space for library and learning resources, staff offices, and two floors of unprogrammed space for future growth.
The UW Tacoma Convocation is both a revival of an early campus tradition (the last one was held in 1999) and the first one ever of its type, designed to demonstrate the campus's tight affinity with its community.
A new vocal ensemble, called World Voices, is open to students on a credit/no-credit basis, and to anyone (staff, faculty and members of the community) who wishes to learn to sing in a safe and energetic environment without enrolling for academic credit.
Social Work professor Rich Furman is the 2012 recipient of the Partners in Advancing International Education award from the Council on Social Work Education.
Krista Haugen, '98, is the recipient of the 2012 UW Tacoma Distinguished Alumni Award, recognizing her career as a flight nurse with Airlift NW and her work with the Survivors Network for Air and Surface Medical Transport.
Larry Knopp, professor and director of interdisciplinary arts and sciences, and Michael Brown, a geography professor at UW in Seattle, are piecing together how policies related to alcohol and public health shaped gay and lesbian life in Seattle pre-AIDS.
The Class of 2012 is the largest in UW Tacoma history, with 1,341 newly-minted alumni. At the ceremony in the Tacoma Dome, Susan Dreyfus will deliver the Commencement keynote address.