15-16: World at Western
Recent Western Washington University alumna and current graduate student at the Technical University of Munich Valeria Fisher received a DAAD Graduate Scholarship for the 2016-2018 academic year.
Fisher, a Bellingham resident, is being awarded €750 per month for two years for her…
The Council on International Exchange, a Western Washington University-affiliated study abroad partner, awarded $76,000 in grants to WWU students to study abroad in fall 2016. The grants were in support of the Institute of International Education Generation Study Abroad initiative.…
The Fellowships Office hosted a recognition ceremony for Western students who are candidates and winners of nationally competitive scholarships and fellowships May 5 at 4 p.m. in the Western Gallery.
Provost Brent Carbajal and Dr. Tom Moore, director of the…
Lisa Monchalin of the Department of Criminology at Kwantlen Polytechnic University in Surrey, British Columbia, will speak about her most recent book, “The Colonial Problem: An Indigenous Perspective on Crime and Injustice in Canada,” from 2-3:30 p.m. on Wednesday, May 25 in Western…
Kets are a living linguistic fossil. Several hundred strong and dwindling, they inhabit swampy, mosquito-infested areas along the Yenisei, a mighty central Siberian river whose bright-blue waters flow into the Arctic Ocean. Thousands of years ago, reindeer pastoralists and horse herders pressed…
East Asian Studies, part of Interdisciplinary Programs at Western Washington University, is hosting visiting instructor Erdene-Ochir Tumen-Ochir of the National University of Mongolia this spring.
Tumen-Ochir was selected as the Henry G. Schwarz Distinguished Instructor of Mongolian…
International students studying at Western Washington University share about themselves and where they're from at a free international culture night event May 5.
Attendees will have the opportunity to meet people from around the world and to learn about different cultures…
Curious what international events are happening at Western Washington University in the next couple of weeks? The Institution for Global Engagement has collected a number of events into its World at Western list for May 1 to 15:
4 to 5:30 p.m. May 2, Center for…Western Washington University has developed several ties with Mongolian universities, organizations and not-for-profit organizations, and those ties are leading to increased opportunities for student study and faculty collaboration in Mongolia.
This past summer, a group of WWU “…
Heather Nicol, professor at Trent University and Victor Clark Alfaro, director of the Binational Center for Human Rights and adjunct professor at San Diego State University, will discuss their experience in border security on Wednesday, May 11 and Wednesday, May 18, on the WWU campus.
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