13-14: Innovation and Research
A study, led by geologist Colin Amos from Western Washington University and published earlier this year in a journal, Nature, showed a possible link between earthquakes and the drought in the state, and found that a lack of water in the San Joaquin Valley is decreasing the weight on the San…
University of Hawaii at Hilo Robotics Technicians Max Kerr and Casey Pearring, along with Akamai intern Nasre Manasrah of UH Maui College (UHMC), and summer volunteer Matt Takemoto of Western Washington University, all contributed to the successful mountainside traverse that tested the rover’s…
Students in Dipu Gupta's set design class at Western Washington University have been using a 3D printer to help them conceptualize various aspects of design without having to physically build a large-scale model.
"It's one of a series of things we're doing to increase the kind of…
Brady Olson, a scientist at Western’s Shannon Point Marine Center, holds a flask of seawater and stares intently at the tiny creatures called copepods swimming inside it. They dart about like frenzied boatmen, through water altered to reflect what climate scientists call “the worst case scenario…
Students in the Asia University America Program at Western Washington University will present on research they've been conducting during their time at Western from 3 to 5 p.m. Wednesday, June 11, in Carver Gym D on campus.
The students, who spend five months at Western before…
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
…Kevin A. Leonard, a professor of history at Western Washington University, has been selected as an NEH Summer Scholar from a national applicant pool to attend one of 30 seminars and institutes supported by the National Endowment for the Humanities. The Endowment is a federal agency that, each…
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…
Western Washington University’s RN-to-BSN Program will host “Community Partnerships: Improving Health in Whatcom County” from 8 a.m. to noon on Wednesday, June 4 in room 464 of the Viking Union on Western’s campus.
The event, which is free and open to the public,…
In October, Western Washington University will officially launch an institutional repository, locally named Western CEDAR, that will collect, organize, manage and disseminate the university’s intellectual output from a single web interface, free to users anywhere in the world. A…