In the Media
Bellingham Technical College will be receiving a $200,000 grant from the Paul G. Allen Family Foundation to create a new degree program that helps low income people enter the aquatic conservation industry.
The project is a collaboration among BTC, Northwest Indian College and Western Washington University's Huxley College.
The grant will allow BTC to expand its current fisheries degree program as well as create a new transfer degree program.
The transfer program at BTC will be aligned with degree programs at Huxley and the NWIC native environmental science degree program, giving students several options for continuing their education or finding a career.
Western Washington University is offering a variety of educational travel programs this spring and summer.
The following destinations are scheduled for 2011; most programs are open to the public.
COGNITIVE psychologists say accidents involving 'multitasking' pedestrians occur because humans - like the gadgets they are addicted to - have only that much processing power.
If they devote too much of this limited brain power to their gadgets, then something else has to give.
A 2009 study by the Western Washington University demonstrates just how bad 'inattentional blindness' can get.
As Washington's colleges struggle to stave off the effects of deep cuts in state funding, one university president is forging ahead with a bold bid for expansion.
Into Everett.
What is Elson Floyd thinking?
Students in Shameem Sherwin’s class at Evergreen Elementary School are trying a new way to learn science. They don’t take notes or sit through a lecture. The first thing the teacher does is make them talk to each other.
George “Pinky” Nelson, a Western Washington University professor, is helping teachers like Sherwin learn how to teach science. He said his approach is the answer to low test scores in Washington.
People with library cards from Whatcom Community College, Western Washington University, Bellingham Technical College and Lummi Library at Northwest Indian College also should be able to use it under the Library One Card program launched last year.
Seattle native and longtime Bellingham vocalist and keyboardist Dana Little, a member of the acoustic trio Late Tuesday, which formed in 2000 and is now on semi-hiatus, celebrates the release of her solo CD, "Patterns," at 7 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 5, at the American Museum of Radio and Electricity.
For more on her and her music, go to danalittlemusic.com.
I've been perusing an intriguing exhibition catalogue published in conjunction with a Northwest exhibit funded by the National Endowment for the Arts. "Critical Messages" focuses on eight environmental themes and features the work of 26 contemporary Northwest artists.
The catalogue features essays by Pulitzer Prize-winning science writer William Dietrich and Sarah Clark-Langager, director of the Western Gallery at Western Washington University.
Former Bellingham resident Shannon Morris, who taught sailing and physics at Western Washington University in the 1970s, will show a slide presentation, "An Architect with Asperger's and a Bicycle Travels Through Europe," on Thursday, Feb. 3.
Forward Megan Pinske had a game-high 18 points and guard Amanda Dunbar added 17 as Western Washington University need a strong finish to claim its 11th straight victory, a 64-59 triumph over pesky Northwest Nazarene University in a Great Northwest Athletic Conference women's basketball game Thursday, Jan. 27, at Sam Carver Gymnasium.