15-16: Community Outreach
Remember the Why Washington? video that we shared a while back?
To refresh your memory: A few months ago, Western Washington University created a video entry for a contest being held in conjunction with Public Service Recognition Week.
Out of 130 entries (all…
Anselmo Villanueva has been selected as executive director of the award-winning Compass 2 Campus mentoring program at Western Washington University’s Woodring College of Education.
Villanueva, a career educator with more than 30 years of experience, succeeds Compass 2 Campus…
[ Writer's note: The last names of the members in the story are not given to respect their privacy. ]
It’s a Tuesday night, and in the Speech and Hearing Clinic in the Academic Instruction Center at Western, David Evans, an assistant professor in the department of Communication…
Finals this spring has meant something totally different for 16 students in Western Washington University’s Huxley College of the Environment Disaster Risk Reduction minor.
Instead of exams or presentations, they are working around the clock for 36 hours in Whatcom County’s…
Western Washington University students can help keep Bellingham beautiful by properly disposing of anything they don't want to bring with them when they move out.
Western and the city of Bellingham are making that easier this week by sponsoring Moveout Madness, a one-day event at…
Western Washington University, in partnership with the City of Poulsbo Parks, are hosting youth enrichment programs at the SEA Discovery Center (formerly the Marine Science Center) this summer.
Programs offered this summer include Odyssey of Science & Arts and Western Kids Camp.…
Tatiane Simons circled the date on her calendar a while back; Saturday, June 11, 2016. A deep breath, then a sigh of mixed relief and anticipation slipping between her lips as she lowered her marker. With a sense of pride, a feeling of humility, and a dash of ambition, she and eight classmates…
Western Washington University will be participating in a regional earthquake exercise called Cascadia Rising on the morning of June 7. Emergency Operations and Coordination Centers at all levels of government and the private sector will activate to conduct a simulated field response…
Next year, students at Western Washington University will help the city of Edmonds become more sustainable. The work will be done through Western’s new Sustainable Cities Partnership program.
The program matches courses at Western to issues facing a city as the…
Western Washington University, the city of Poulsbo and the Poulsbo Marine Science Foundation have approved initial agreements that will allow Western to lease and then to assume ownership of the Poulsbo Marine Science Center building.
The agreements were announced at an event Tuesday…