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- Title:
- Janet Primomo interview
- Interviewee:
- Primomo, Janet
- Interviewer:
- Hua, Joan, 1989-
- Date Created:
- 2019-11-18
- Role:
- Faculty
- Department:
- Nursing
- Subjects:
- School of Nursing nursing public health faculty governance tri-campus interdisciplinary education research community public health Joint Base Lewis–McChord (JBLM)
- Biography:
- Janet Primomo is an Associate Professor Emeritus with the School of Nursing and Healthcare Leadership at UW Tacoma. She retired in 2015. After completing her MN (1982) and PhD (1989) at UW Seattle, she worked at Pacific Lutheran University for a short period. In 1992, she joined UW Tacoma and became one of the three founding faculty members of the Nursing program. She is involved with Puget Sound Asthma Coalition on the executive committee and serves on the University of Washington Retirement Association Board. Despite being retired, she maintains strong ties with UW Tacoma, including through scholarship and mentoring graduate students and faculty. She received UW Tacoma's Distinguished Teaching Award in 1997 and UW Tacoma's Community Engagement Award in 2013. She is also a recipient of the Dr. Trudeau Award from the American Lung Association of Washington for outstanding research and volunteer leadership. She was inducted into the Washington State Nurses Association's Hall of Fame in 2014.
- Description:
- Janet Primomo reflects on work with University of Washington Tacoma as part of the founding faculty of the School of Nursing and Healthcare Leadership. In this interview, she shares her experience starting as assistant professor in 1992, helping to build the Nursing program at the time and incorporating interdisciplinarity into the curriculum to match UW Tacoma’s mission. She mentions the interdisciplinarity as well as community-based scholarship as aspects that attracted her to the position. Next she highlights memorable students. She notes the diversity within the campus community and how the student body's demographics shifted before and after the Great Recession. She then describes the evolving relationships between University of Washington's three campuses: Bothell, Seattle, and Tacoma, and the unique, community-driven orientation of UW Tacoma. She finishes by reflecting on the rewarding and frustrating parts about her career at UW Tacoma.
- Location:
- United States--Washington (State)--Tacoma United States--Washington (State)--Seattle
- Type:
- Sound; Text; StillImage
- Format:
- cpd
- Preferred Citation:
- University of Washington Libraries, University of Washington Tacoma Library, UWTOH201906