In the Media
Lake Whatcom water quality took a turn for the worse in 2010, adding new urgency to the ongoing effort to head off new sources of pollution while taking steps to cut back on existing ones.
The bad news came in the latest Lake Whatcom Monitoring Program annual report that lists data compiled by Robin Matthews and her team. Matthews is director of the Institute for Watershed Studies at Huxley College of the Environment, Western Washington University.
Western Washington University men's pole vaulter Ryan Brown has been named the 2011 United States Track & Field and Cross Country Coaches Association Division II National Indoor Male Field Athlete of the Year.
Western Washington University moved up 11 spots to No. 7 in the latest National Fastpitch Coaches Association Division II Top 25 Poll released today. It is the first time in school history that the Vikings have been ranked among the top 10.
Setter Carmen Vasilatos, a senior at Woodinville High School, has accepted admission to Western Washington University and will play volleyball for the Vikings this fall. Making that announcement was WWU coach Diane Flick.
What would you think if someone told you that in Greenland, about 9,100 years of the last 10,500 years were warmer than now? Or that the coldest years during this time span were in the late 19th century, at the close of the "Little Ice Age"?
Further, what would you think of the fact that there is nothing unusual about the mild, cyclic warming of our planet over the past century, comparable to the Roman Warm Period or the Medieval Warm Period? The latter enabled the Viking settlement of Greenland, which was later abandoned due to the return of severe cold during that same Little Ice Age.
Ruth Medsker, who has served as interim Principal at West Seattle High School since last summer has been named to the position on a permanent basis by interim Superintendent Susan Enfield, Seattle Public Schools. Enfield shared her thoughts in a letter to the staff, students and families for the school.
Western Washington University’s Richard Vawter, an associate professor of physics and astronomy, is retiring after decades of teaching.
Success is really getting in the way of Urban Waite’s life plan.
After his debut novel, “The Terror of Living,” was published in February, Waite planned on returning to working odd jobs, scraping together enough time to write a handful of books and earn himself a position at a university.
That was before Stephen King praised “The Terror of Living” as “a hell of a good novel” and “an auspicious debut,” and author Tom Franklin compared it favorably to Cormac McCarthy’s classic “No Country for Old Men.”
Social media is playing a large role in allowing people to communicate in the aftermath of the earthquake and tsunami in Japan.
Seattle Pacific University student Jenni Husby has used Facebook to check in with friends. She was raised in Japan and spent time on the coast where the Tsunami hit, she said.
Mastataka Sugasawa, a Western Washington University exchange student who went back to Japan, was able to touch base with worried friends who had lost touch with him after the tsunami.
Two Western Washington University faculty members have been awarded a five-year, $590,000 National Science Foundation grant to help promote the recruitment, retention and graduation of gifted female students into the computer science and mathematics programs at WWU.