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.
Beacon Press is publishing a paperback edition of "All Labor Has Dignity," the collected speeches of Martin Luther King, Jr., edited by UW Tacoma's Michael Honey.
A $2 million, five-year grant from the U.S. Department of Education will establish the Communities of Practice for Teaching English Language Learners program.
Deirdre Evans has been named one of 20 Orange County, Calif., "Women to Watch" by OC Metro Magazine.
UW Tacoma student Thomas Green, studying social work, is being recognized with the 2011 Rod Hagenbuch Award for his advocacy on behalf of the homeless.
Charles Emlet will serve as a Fulbright Visiting Research Chair in Science and the Environment at McMaster University in Canada.
The building, on the east bank of the Thea Foss Waterway, houses the City of Tacoma Environmental Services Division, UW Tacoma researchers and labs and the staff of the Puget Sound Partnership.
A three-year Ed.D. program will launch in summer 2013. Enrolling 30 students, the program will offer three options: P-12 Superintendent, Nursing Education and Higher Education.
The new Urban Clean Water Innovation Partnership Zone will bring to UW Tacoma $2 million for a new "Clean Water Innovation Development and Technology Transfer Laboratory."
Dr. Grethe Cammermeyer will keynote UW Tacoma Nursing Program's 20th anniversary celebration.
