In the Media
Pam Kuntz's latest performance work tells the compelling stories of 15 community members who have been challenged to make public those things we don't normally talk about, including health care issues, stress, patient advocacy and the connections within Bellingham neighborhoods.
There's a moment in "Stories from Jim and Jo" in which Jim Lortz sits in a chair, slowly and wearily stands, raises his arms over his head and bellows.
It is a sound of rage, of fear, of loss.
And it came during a recent rehearsal for the show, which will hit the Mainstage Theatre of the Performing Arts Center at Western Washington University on Sunday, Sept. 26.
Students are back on Western Washington University's campus, but a residence hall expansion that was supposed to be completed over the summer remains unfinished.
Crews are still working on an addition to the Buchanan Towers residence hall at the south end of campus. The $14.3 million project was supposed to have "substantial completion" by Aug. 16, according to the contract between the university and the general contractor, Ebenal General, Inc. The project was started in July 2009.
The College of Marin has chosen the president of a San Jose community college to be its new superintendent and president.
David Wain Coon, president of Evergreen Valley College, will succeed Frances L. White, who retired in June. The college Board of Trustees approved Coon's selection Tuesday by a 6-0 vote.
Others claim that women think that they want to focus on their career, but in reality choose family over career.
Recent research by Western Washington University revealed that women who become the chief breadwinners in their domestic partnerships are more likely to pay the price with divorce.
Could this be one of the key reasons why women tend not to climb the corporate ladder to the dizzy heights that men reach?
Peninsula College also offers Bachelor of Arts degrees in human services and planning and environmental policy, as well as a Bachelor of Science in environmental studies, all in partnership with Western Washington University. This spring it will add yet another baccalaureate program through Western.
Starting spring quarter 2011, a Bachelor of Arts in interdisciplinary general studies will be offered through Western, Keegan said. Most of the courses will be offered face-to-face at the Peninsula College campus, he said.
WASHINGTON state is losing the American dream that its citizens, regardless of their financial level, can go to college. I was raised in a single-parent family on welfare yet I graduated from the University of California, Berkeley.
I have attended, worked for, administered or built universities for more than 50 years. The hardworking, average family no longer has access to or can afford to attend our best public colleges.
Long before it was a mainstream thing, Doris Goodman taught this community about massage.
And while she was at it, she threw in another fresh concept: organic eating.
Goodman, founder of the House of Health massage center and cafe in Port Angeles, circa 1979, will turn 100 on Thursday.
Western Washington University's Sophie Elstrott shot a final-round, 1-under par 71, to place sixth in the medalist standings at the Sonoma State University Invitational Women's Golf Tournament, which ended Tuesday, Sept. 21 at the Santa Rosa Golf and Country Club in Santa Rosa, Calif.
They may not have had pinto ponies like they did on the Great Plains, but the Coast Salish had a pinto of their own: the pinto abalone. Salish people ate them and valued their iridescent shells for jewelry; they were a valuable trade item for centuries.
Unfortunately, pinto abalone (a.k.a. Northern abalone) are in big trouble. Commercial harvest in British Columbia and recreational fishing in Washington caused the abalone numbers to decline precipitously, forcing the closure of most fisheries by the 1990s. Even with protection, populations of these important herbivores have continued to decline and the species is now in danger of extinction.