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Students Implement On-Campus Sustainability

March 7, 2016September 18, 2017 Ledger Staff 725 Views by Kristin Dellavecchia, Classes, Sustainability in Action

Sustainability in Action (TESC 301) is a course that challenges students to plan and implement environmental sustainability on the UWT

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UW Tacoma Husky Card Expansion Will Cost Over $65,000

February 29, 2016September 18, 2017 Ledger Staff 869 Views Blackboard Transact, by Kristin Dellavecchia, Ed Mirecki, Husky card, Paul Weed, Student Technology Fee Committee, Surtida Shelton

The university is in the midst of planning the expansion of the Husky Card. The card currently provides students, faculty,

Automatic Voter Registration Would Increase Polls by 400,000

February 22, 2016September 19, 2017 Ledger Staff 945 Views 2016 presidential race, by Kristin Dellavecchia, Voter Registration, Voting

A more advanced method for US voters, called automatic or universal voter registration, was recently passed by the House in

Tacoma Community House Strives to Empower

February 16, 2016August 21, 2018 Ledger Staff 980 Views advocacy, by Kristin Dellavecchia, Community resources, Sarah J. Roemer, Tacoma Community House

106-year-old, Tacoma Community House (TCH) continues to better Washingtonians through a variety of support programs. TCH is a non-profit organization

$3.4 Billion Methanol Plant Possibly Coming to Port of Tacoma

February 1, 2016August 22, 2018 Ledger Staff 835 Views Bill Gaines, by Kristin Dellavecchia, Charla Skaggs, Connie Bacon, David Mueller, enviornmentalism, LNG Plant, Melissa Malott

Northwest Innovation Works (NWIW) proposed the construction of a $3.4 billion gas-to-methanol production plant to replace the Kaiser Aluminum Smelter

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Researchers Find High Cellphone Use Results in Lower GPAs

January 25, 2016August 22, 2018 Ledger Staff 800 Views Andrew Lepp, Aryn Karpinski, Brian Heaton, by Kristin Dellavecchia, grades, Jacob Barkley, Kent State University, Study tips

“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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UW Professor Retires from Writing and Pauses Teaching Career

January 19, 2016August 23, 2018 Ledger Staff 737 Views by Kristin Dellavecchia, Facculty, Matt Misterek, Patrick O'Callahan

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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National Science Foundation Grants UW Center for Sensorimotor Neural Engineering (CSNE) $16 Million

January 11, 2016August 23, 2018 Ledger Staff 781 Views by Kristin Dellavecchia, Center for Sensorimotor Neural Engineering, National Science Foundation, Rajesh Rao

The University of Washington is in the midst of inventing a device that will allow those paralyzed from injury or

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SAFC Knowingly Uses Unapproved Bylaws

January 4, 2016August 23, 2018 Ledger Staff 801 Views by Kristin Dellavecchia, Mark Pagano, policy, SAFC, Sophie Nop, Student Governemtn

Friday, Nov. 13th, 2015 ASUWT organized a meeting with ASUWT Finance Director, Bronwyn Clarke; Vice Chancellor of Student & Enrollment

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UW Sues CIA After Declining to Provide Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) Documents

December 7, 2015August 23, 2018 Ledger Staff 956 Views by Kristin Dellavecchia, Center for Human Rights, CIA, Freedom of Information Act, Human Rights, Salvadorian Civil War, Sigifredo Ochoa Perez, Transparency

On Monday, Oct. 5th, the UW Center for Human Rights (UW CHR) and the Human Rights Institute of the Central

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