Fairhaven College of Interdisciplinary Studies Assistant Professor Mark Miyake found his first radio in a dumpster when he was 10 years old; his family, first-generation Japanese immigrants, had moved to Queens, New York eight years earlier.
While his parents were uninterested in American popular music, that was not the case for Miyake, so the new radio started as a way to feed another Miyake family obsession: baseball.
Faculty and Staff Opening Convocation was held this morning in the PAC. The annual event included employee awards, the employee breakfast (this year in two shifts because of the ongoing work at the VU) as well as President Sabah Randhawa's address to campus, which focused on the work in the year ahead to meet measurable goals set forth by the Strategic Plan, approved by the Board of Trustees in April, in three key areas: Advancing Inclusive Success, Enhancing Academic Excellence, and Increasing Washington Impact.
Western Washington University, in partnership with the City of Bellingham, will host the Third Annual Paint B’ham Blue for WWU on Wednesday, Sept. 26.
This year, the Western Washington University Alumni Association has donated an additional $40,000 in energy-efficient LED lights, bringing the total to more than 250 illuminated trees donated for downtown (more than 2600 strands of lights.)
The Western Gallery at Western Washington University has received a $132,000 grant to restore the Donald Judd sculpture ‘Untitled 1982,” part of the university’s acclaimed sculpture collection.
The grant is from the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS), which is the primary source of federal support for the nation's libraries and museums.
About 4,100 students will move into Western Washington University’s residence halls and apartments, beginning Sunday, Sept. 16, with the majority arriving Friday, Sept. 21 through Sunday, Sept. 23.
The first day of classes at Western is Wednesday, Sept. 26.
More than 50 teachers and scholars from Whatcom and Skagit counties gathered at Western over the summer with peers from Taiwan and Mongolia to learn more about English language teaching programs in their respective schools and countries.
The Bellingham Regional TESOL Conference in late July in the Viking Union was the first of what planners envision as an annual event to welcome new teachers into the local TESOL (Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages) and ESL (English as a Second Language) communities.
Can species thrive together? Can we learn from nature to remediate environmental problems? Is hope possible in the Anthropocene?
Western Gallery’s fall exhibition, “Modest Forms of Biocultural Hope,” which runs Sept. 26 through Dec. 8, focuses on these questions as well as creative efforts to address ecological concerns. Four art installations explore the complex relationships between biology and culture.
Biodiversity plays a significant role in forest carbon storage, but surprisingly less than previously thought, according to research in Ecology Letters that was led in part by Western Washington University Biology Professor David Hooper.
About 445 undergraduate and 35 master’s students graduated from Western Saturday in summer quarter commencement ceremonies in Carver Gymnasium.
Western Washington University alumnus Brett Jordan, manager of Internal Audit at Russell Investments in Seattle, addressed graduates and their families. The student speaker was Rebekah Way, who earned a Bachelor of Arts degree with a major in journalism with a news editorial emphasis, and a minor in music.
Genocide is nothing new.
The atrocities of murdering and displacing entire groups of people based on their ethnicity, nationality or religion has been a festering scar on humanity for thousands of years. It wasn’t until after the Holocaust that the international community, as a group, began to seek trials and punish those involved in committing such abhorrent crimes against humanity.
