In the Media
"Judy Petersen, 69, would definitely call herself a fighter.
"I'm very, very sick, very often, and I always come through," she said.
It's kind of an understatement. Petersen has battled multiple sclerosis since she was a teenager.
She wasn't supposed to make it past 28, she said. She's dealt with weighing more than 400 pounds, and confined to a wheelchair, for much of her life. Most recently, her kidneys started giving out on her."
"Barney Mann of San Diego has come to Bellingham four times seeking the soul of Catherine Montgomery.
He has learned much about her, and has come across some writings and comments suggesting what made her tick before she died more than 50 years ago. He wants to know more.
Lean and tan, Mann is an attorney who loves to hike, so much so that he's on the board of the Pacific Crest Trail Association. The group protects and promotes the trail that runs 2,650 miles from Canada to Mexico."
"National and international experts including scientists and academics said at a climate change conference opened yesterday that climate change adaptation challenges were exacerbated by several other problems facing Delta farmers today.
The two-day conference in Can Tho City has drawn the participation of more than 30 experts from several universities and agencies including the American Western Washington University, German United Nations University, Asian Disaster Preparedness Centre, and the delta-based universities of Can Tho and An Giang."
"Dana C. Jack, EdD is Professor at Fairhaven College of Interdisciplinary Studies/ Western Washington University. Her research examines women’s depression and anger in the U.S. and internationally, and qualitative research methods."
"Allison Gregg has pinned a picture above her desk of the place that she hopes will be her next workplace: The White House.
Gregg, 36, is a regional finalist to be a White House Fellow. She and other finalists from the Southeast will be interviewed in Miami in April, and if she makes that cut, she'll go through another round of interviews in May. Fellows will be notified in June and would begin work at the White House in August."
"Florence Winsor Helliesen of Seattle is on the hunt for information about stained-glass windows that once graced the reading nooks at Western Washington University's Campus School.
The Campus School operated at Western from 1899 to 1967. Student teachers at the public school, which began as the Model School and was later known as the Training School, first educated neighborhood students and later served mostly children of Western faculty and staff."
"The first in a series of conversations on topics related to racism will be 7 to 8:30 p.m. Thursday, April 1, at the YWCA, 1026 N. Forest St. ...
At the Thursday talk, Western Washington University faculty member Carmen Werder will lead a discussion on how to have productive dialogue about difficult issues such as racism."
"In 1994, Carolyn Nielsen was a graduate student at Northwestern University's Medill School of Journalism when she wrote stories that questioned the trial and subsequent murder conviction of a 14-year-old Chicago boy.
Nothing came of it then. The boy, Thaddeus Jimenez, was sent to prison and Nielsen went on to become an assistant professor of journalism at Western Washington University."
"Five-time defending NCAA Division II national champion and preseason No.1-ranked Western Washington University opened its season with a solid performance, winning four of the five women's races it competed in Saturday at the Daffodil Regatta on American Lake in Tacoma."
"Two Western Washington University distance runners, Jordan Welling and Lauren Breihof, had NCAA Division II national provisional qualifying performances Friday, March 26, at two different sites in northern California."