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IIGE Orientation Launches Year of Impact

The Institute for Innovation and Global Engagement (IIGE) orientation on October 9, 2024, celebrated 20 years of Global Honors and featured an Ideathon to brainstorm themes for the 2025 Global Engagement Conference.


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Founding Stories

On the eve of our 30th anniversary, the UW Tacoma Library is spearheading a project to document the origins and development of UW Tacoma through oral history.


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Keeping the Faith

The Tacoma Buddhist Temple, Sunya Pratt and Japantown come together in librarian Justin Wadland's latest research.


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Get Your Art Fix: Public Art on Campus

A guide to public art on the UW Tacoma campus lists more than 80 works by artists such as Pablo Picasso, Dale Chihuly, Gerard Tsutakawa and Dawoud Bey.


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Japanese Language School: Part of Campus History

The history of a thriving pre-WWII Japanese American community in Tacoma will be commemorated via a sculpture by renowned artist Gerard Tsutakawa, to be installed along the Prairie Line Trail.


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Tioga Library Building Opens

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.