Researchers Find High Cellphone Use Results in Lower GPAs
“If college students want to excel in the classroom, they’ll need to lay off using their smartphones,” says Brian Heaton,
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Tacoma’s MultiCare Hosts 16th Annual Do Something Healthy Event
On Jan. 21st, the 16th annual Do Something Healthy event at the Tacoma Bicentennial Pavilion is expected to officially start
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Valentines for Vets Continues for its Sixth Year
Maria Shackles—branch manager of the Mary Rose Kobetich Library—started Valentines for Vets in January of 2010. All eight Tacoma library
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UW Professor Retires from Writing and Pauses Teaching Career
After teaching as a part-time professor in communications for five years and working as an editor for the News Tribune
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Final Decision Made on UWT Minimum Wage
At 10:07 am on Jan. 12th, UWT Chancellor, Dr. Mark Pagano sent a campus-wide email regarding his final decision regarding
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National Science Foundation Grants UW Center for Sensorimotor Neural Engineering (CSNE) $16 Million
The University of Washington is in the midst of inventing a device that will allow those paralyzed from injury or
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Tacoma Honors MLK, Jr. in Birthday Celebrations
Tacoma will host its 28th annual Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. celebration on Monday, Jan. 18th, at the Tacoma Convention
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Shaking the Break and Getting Back Into the Groove
The first week of classes are over. While it is nice going over the syllabus and all the course expectations
Read MoreFuture Minimum Wage Policy Still Being Decided
On Wednesday, April 1st, 2015, UWT raised its minimum wage to $11 an hour. Yet with UW Seattle and Bothell
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Tacoma’s Proposed Plan Tackles Population Surge by Expanding the Link
Talk from city officials of expanding the Tacoma Link light rail have heightened since the beginning of September. The projected
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