In the Media
A National Science Foundation grant worth $590,000 has been awarded to two Western Washington University professors to help encourage more female students to major in computer science and mathematics.
Spring semester is an exciting time of year for the Community Liaison Program at the city of Fort Collins and CSU. As the new community liaison, I have been focusing energy not only on settling into the new position but also on maintaining programs geared toward promoting positive relationships between students and non-student residents living in the neighborhoods of Fort Collins.
Western Washington University's Christa Goldie shot a 4-over par 76 - the second-best round of the tournament - and the Vikings women's golf team posted the best collective round of golf at the UC Riverside Braveheart Classic on Tuesday, March 1, at the Oak Valley Golf Club.
Have fun; will travel. Will travel far, if necessary.
Whatcom County cross-country skiers know the mantra. Some winters, such as last year's spring like meltdown, push them toward other parts of the state or southern British Columbia to find snow.
It's not that they uniformly avoid the trails at Salmon Ridge Sno-Park, the county's only regularly groomed site. Located east of Glacier just off Mount Baker Highway, Salmon Ridge serves up 15 miles of cross-country bliss, but at 2,200 feet, snowfall there tends to be unpredictable, at times scarce.
Former Western Washington University and Bellingham Slam forward Tyler Amaya has signed a contract to play professional basketball in Syria, the Slam announced in a press release.
In my mind, and in the minds of most of my peers, Edmonds is a small town. I can rarely walk into a grocery store without seeing someone I know. When I was looking at colleges, I wanted to experience the big city and my dream school at one point was the University of Washington. I wanted the fast-paced life. It wasn’t until I sat down and thought about what leaving Edmonds would be like, that I realized how much I love living here.
Ann Anderst of Snohomish reminds us that today is the 50th anniversary of President John F. Kennedy's signing of the executive order that created the Peace Corps.
Since then, more than 200,000 Americans have served as Peace Corps volunteers in 139 host countries, she says.
Students are promising you'll see quite a commotion around the state's universities and colleges this week.
The Washington Student Associations says there will be walkouts and rallies at every major Washington university and college on Tuesday.
ConocoPhillips’ refinery near Ferndale has been repeatedly fined by regional air-pollution inspectors and last year drew two citations from state workplace-safety regulators who said a fire there was caused by faulty maintenance.
Refinery workers’ failure to lubricate a motor sparked the June 2010 fire, state records show. The motor, installed in 2008, required regular greasing, while the equipment it replaced had required only occasional maintenance, said Hector Castro, spokesman for the state Department of Labor and Industries. State officials levied a fine of $6,300.
As the son of a domestic violence survivor, David Marshall is hoping to chip away some of the attitudes that perpetuate violence against women at his college. The senior at City University of New York’s John Jay College of Criminal Justice participates in the group Men Creating Change, consisting of a handful of students who organize domestic violence awareness events and gather to discuss traditional notions of masculinity. It took two years to get the group up and running, but now the chapter, which is part of the national organization Men Can Stop Rape, serves as a resource to prevent dating violence at the college.