16-17: Innovation and Research

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SEA Discovery Center to get research emphasis, educational expansion

The interactive science facility will be led by its newly appointed director, Dr. Sylvia Yang, who comes to Poulsbo from WWU’s Shannon Point Marine Center in Anacortes, where she worked as a marine scientist. Just a few weeks into her time at her new post, she…

2017-01-19
Does energy efficiency help home prices? WWU faculty to find out

Western Washington University faculty members Sharon Shewmake, Reid Dorsey-Palmateer and Phil Thompson have secured a two-year, $309,304 grant from the 

2017-01-17
Western Researchers Awarded $309,000 Grant from Alfred P. Sloan Foundation to Study the Impact of Energy Efficiency on Housing Prices 2017-01-13
WWU’s Michael Slouber Publishes ‘Early Tantric Medicine: Snakebite, Mantras, and Healing in the Garuda Tantras’ with Oxford University Press 2017-01-12
WWU Student Audrey Cheung Wins Research Award from American Chemical Society 2017-01-04
Optimism, but also many ‘what-ifs’ in latest economic outlook

Hart Hodges expects between 2 and 2.5 percent job growth in Whatcom and Skagit counties next year. That’s good, but it won’t feel as good compared to the early 2000s because Seattle’s job and wage growth is expected to be even bigger.

One trend that is expected to…

2016-12-08
WWU professor has personal reason for securing millions in grants to cure Huntington's Disease

A professor at Western Washington University in Bellingham spends every day working on a cure for Huntington's Disease-- and has secured millions in grants to make that happen.

Watch the story: http://www.…

2016-12-01
Western’s Jeff Carroll Awarded New $800k Grant to Research Huntington’s Disease 2016-11-29
The transgender body in art: finding visibility 'in difficult times like these'

“What’s missing in the conversation about the ‘trans tipping point’ is the fact that the experience is being told, but the means of production are still in the same hands,” says Chris Vargas, the executive director of the Museum of Trans Hirstory & Art (…

2016-11-28
Clinton wins popular vote, loses presidency: Time to change Electoral College?

The totals at 4:30 p.m. Wednesday were 59,814,010 votes for Clinton, and 59,611,679 for Trump.  The lead is expected to grow with late ballot counting in Washington and California.

Both Republican presidents chosen to serve in this century have won the White House by coming in…

2016-11-10
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