13-14: Community Outreach
There's a beautiful library space for all things Northwest. It's called the Northwest Collection and it's in the high-ceilinged reading room in Wilson Library, at Western Washington University.
"You're going to see Northwest history,…
This past school year, between February and May, Bellingham Public Schools established salad bars in each of its middle schools – Whatcom, Kulshan, Fairhaven and Shuksan – as well as Sehome High in an effort to improve students’ access to fresh fruits and vegetables.…
Streets are strewn with debris: roofs ripped off, cars overturned, and glass shattered from windows. Your neighbors now live in improvised homes of scraps of wood and cardboard. You search for family and friends in shelters and makeshift hospitals. It’s been weeks since you turned on
…Students in Woodring College of Education's SEC 444 class, taught by Lauren McClanahan, went out into the local high school community this past quarter to find and tell interesting stories.
The fruits of their labor, seven short films featuring fun stories from area schools, will be…
Several campus units are participating in the Second Annual British Columbia / Whatcom County Cross-Border Expo June 12 at Silver Reef Hotel Casino Spa in Ferndale. The event will feature three business seminars, a tradeshow and a business-after-business networking event.
WWU’s…
Western Washington University’s Huxley Spatial Institute recently completed a collaborative project with the organization Oil Change International. The Institute’s Jacob Lesser and Tyson Waldo spent months developing an online map that allows users to explore the rapid expansion of…
Five local photographers, including Western Washington University student Tomas Calderon, will be honored for submitting winning images to the 2014 Essence of Bellingham Photo Competition.
Their photos were among more than 200 images submitted by area residents for the ninth annual…
Western Libraries Special Collections, a division of Heritage Resources, will host a display in collaboration with the Native Fish Society at the film "Wild Reverence" at the Pickford Film Center in Bellingham Friday, May 31.
A reception begins at 7:15 p.m., and the film starts at 8:…
Western Washington University’s College of Business and Economics will offer an entrepreneurship methods evening course this summer.
Lean Startup & Entrepreneurship Methods is a cutting-edge course which allows participants to gain real, hands-on experience in creating a startup…
Kevin Lowdon, a music photographer and BFA student at Western Washington University, is putting on an exhibition called “SoundCheck: 2 Years of Live Music” at Make.Shift Art Space in downtown Bellingham from May 27 to 31.
The exhibit features 24 images selected from work…