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Cristin Lindsay, vice president of Prize Operations at the X Prize Foundation, just posted a handful of awesome photos online of the Western Washington University team at the Progressive Insurance Automotive X Prize competition in Detroit.

The team from WWU's Vehicle Research Institute is racing the Viking 45 in the competition. For more information, visit http://auto.xprize.org/.

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More than 100 hundred Western Washington University student-athletes worked alongside supervisors from the Bellingham Parks and Recreation Department on Saturday, June 5, to prepare an area just off the Fairhaven Parkway for salmon habitat.

The volunteer project was the brainchild of Western’s Student-Athlete Advisory Committee, which organized the community service work party. The idea was developed from student-athlete focus groups and SAAC meetings.

Western Washington University celebrated its third annual “It’s Your Arboretum Day” on Saturday, June 5, at the Outdoor Learning Center, located on the Huntoon Trail in the western part of the Sehome Arboretum adjoining WWU’s campus.

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Congratulations to Ashley Hollender, Quinn Wilson and Jeff Emtman, photographers whose images were selected to represent "The Student Perspective" as part of the recent Essence of Bellingham photo competition. These three photos were awarded first, second and third place, respectively, by a jury of WWU students and staff members from among the 139 entries submitted in the College, University, Vocational/Technical Schools category of the city's annual competition.

A handful of Western Washington University students gathered in the Communications Facility Thursday, June 3, for a robot competition sponsored by the WWU Computer Science Department and the College of Sciences and Technology.

For more information on the competition, visit http://merlin.cs.wwu.edu/robots or contact Jianna Zhang, associate professor of Computer Science, at (360) 650-3845 or jianna.zhang@wwu.edu.

Western Washington University will host its third annual "It's Your Arboretum Day" from 1 to 4 p.m., Saturday, June 5, at the Outdoor Learning Center, located on the Huntoon Trail in the western part of the Sehome Arboretum adjoining WWU's campus. The event is free and open to the public.

Three photography classes at Western Washington University have joined forces to create the "Questioning the Archives" photo exhibit, which is on display in the windows of Wilson Library through Monday, June 7. An additional component to the project is on display on the second floor of the Fine Arts Building.

Today is the annual Bike to Work and School Day, and the two celebration stations set up on the Western Washington University campus received scores of visitors while they were open in the morning, said Wendy Crandall, who works in Transportation Services at WWU and who helped man the station set up near Bond Hall.

On the other end of campus, near the Wade King Student Recreation Center, a handful of communication and journalism students volunteered at another celebration station as part of a service-learning project.