The submission deadline for applications for the Faculty Development Award is 5 p.m. Monday, March 1.
The Center for Instructional Innovation & Assessment at Western Washington University has available a limited number of summer grants for WWU faculty members who wish to use online tools such as tutorials, simulations and discussions to enhance their existing courses.
Jennifer Karchmer, an instructor in the Department of Communication at Western Washington University, has just returned from Vancouver, B.C., where she was covering the 2010 Winter Olympics as an independent journalist.
To read Karchmer's coverage of the Olympics, check out her Web site at http://jenniferkarchmer.com/.
Fred Ellis passed peacefully at his home on Shaw Island on Friday, Feb. 5, He was 93 years old.
He was a founding member of the Friends of the San Juans and the San Juan Preservation Trust.
Professor Ellis made his first visit to Shaw in 1936, and purchased his first piece of land in 1937, making it his permanent home in 1946.
Did you miss the Michael Pollan lecture? An archival copy of Michael Pollan’s visit to campus on January 14th is now available for individual viewing in Special Collections at Wilson Library.
Western Today will not be published next Monday-Wednesday, Feb. 22-24. It will resume on Thursday, Feb. 25.
Western Washington University and the Center for Service-Learning are offering a course on rural Kenya this summer. The class, "Kenya: Field Studies and Collaborative International Service-Learning," will be held during the nine-week Summer Session, with five weeks on the ground in Kenya, from July 5 to Aug. 12.
An information session will be held at noon Feb. 22 in College Hall Room 131 to present details of the program.
Betty Young, 59, was born December 15, 1950 in Walla Walla and died Feb. 16 in Bellingham of metastatic liver cancer diagnosed in late October.
She was with her loving and much loved partner of 31 years, Terri McMahan, and dear friend Meg Miller at the time of her death. Betty was raised on the family's centennial wheat farm where she loved to ride horses through the rolling hills.
Teresa J. LaFreniere, age 66 of Bellingham, passed away February 13, 2010 after a courageous two year battle with brain cancer. She was born June 3, 1943 in Chehalis, WA to Norman and Dorothy (Hogan) Hocking.
Today is the last day for Western Washington University student employee supervisors to nominate an outstanding student employee for the 2010 Student Employee of the Year award.
The award winner will be announced during National Student Employment Week, which is scheduled for April 11 to 17.
The winner has an opportunity to win cash and prizes at the campus, state, regional and national level. All award nominees will be honored at a recognition teception scheduled during National Student Employment Week.
