Tag: Tacoma
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Scoring position: A man buys his hometown team As King County's farm specialist, Steve Evans '78, '82 has watched agriculture disappear from the area. But now some of the land is going to smaller farms with high value crops. Meanwhile, small farms agent Bee Cha helps East African refugees farm in the urban Pacific Northwest.
Summer 2012
In the 1970s, when Mikal Thomsen ’79 was a budding business student
at WSU, he earned his tuition by compiling the stats for the football,
basketball, and baseball teams. The job not only let him parlay an
interest in numbers and sports into ...
Categories: Athletics, Business
Tags: Baseball, Tacoma
Back to the city
Fall 2010
Categories: Agriculture, WSU Extension
Tags: Seattle, Urban farming, Tacoma, Extension, Farmers markets
On the waterfront
Winter 2008
Tacoma's past may be a key to its future :: Twenty years ago, the City Club of Tacoma approached the city with a plan to unify the waterfront and build a walking path from the Tacoma Dome to Point Defiance. The painstakingly researched report urged that the entire waterfront be redesigned as a people place. Lara Hermann '95 was thrilled when a city hall worker handed her the document. "It was like a present just lands in your lap," she says.
Categories: Geography, Public affairs
Tags: Tacoma, Urban planning
Solid footing
Spring 2003
Ah, for the safety and comfort of computer modeling in a cozy
office.Instead, Thanos Papanicolaou, assistant professor in the
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Washington
State University, found himself in a small boat in the ch...
Categories: Engineering
Tags: Tacoma, Bridges, Civil engineering