Students get paid internships with government offices, political campaigns, legal offices and non-profit organizations through a program of the Politics, Philosophy & Economics program.
Each year, UW Tacoma awards scholarships to seven transfer students from the region's community colleges. The scholarship was created in 1998 through the generosity of 30 donors.
A senior in the Milgard School of Business accounting program, Dawit Bekele is a Milgard Scholar and a recipient of the Husky Promise and Next Step Scholarships.
Signatures of 20 middle- and high-school students from UW Tacoma's Math, Science, Leadership (MSL) will be lofted into space as part of Lockheed Martin's and NASA's "Student Signatures in Space" program.