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The Academic Instructional Center at Western Washington University opened for classes on Jan. 6, 2009. The 120,000-square-foot, $60.4-million building was awarded Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design certification from the U.S. Green Building Council. The building comprises two wings, a departmental building wing and an academic wing, connected by a skybridge, and accommodates the consolidation and growth of the departments of Psychology and Communication Sciences and Disorders.
Randy Godfrey, the head gardener at Western Washington University, recently placed a couple of temporary protective guards on two trees in front of the Science, Mathematics and Technology Education Building just south of Carver Gymnasium on campus.
The wooden guards are a temporary experiment, Godfrey said. When spring quarter is over, he'll remove the guards to determine how much damage the trees have sustained throughout the quarter.
Hundreds of graduating students, their family members and friends crowded into Sam Carver Gymnasium on the campus of Western Washington University Saturday for winter commencement.
Hoyt Gier, a vice president with Goldman Sachs & Co. in Seattle, was the ceremony's main speaker. He is also immediate past president of the Western Washington University Foundation and a member of the WWU Athletics Hall of Fame.
Approximately 556 undergraduates and 40 master’s candidates received degrees in winter quarter.
William S. Ayer, chairman and chief executive officer of Alaska Airlines and the Alaska Air Group, was the keynote speaker at the ninth Annual Western Washington University Bellingham Business Forum on Thursday, March 18, at the Hotel Bellwether ballroom.
At Alaska Airlines, Ayer, 55, leads the nation’s ninth-largest airline, with more than 10,000 employees, 59 destinations served and more than 110 aircraft.
Read a history of the Western Washington University Library from Marian Alexander, head of WWU's Special Collections, at http://www.library.wwu.edu/specialcollections/libraryhistory.htm. Follow along with what's new in the Western Libraries at http://lib207.lib.wwu.edu/.
Center Dwayne Fells scored on a post-up with 0.6 seconds left in overtime, lifting Cal Poly Pomona to a 76-75 victory over Western Washington University in a NCAA Division II Men's Basketball West Regional semifinal game Saturday on Haggen Court at Sam Carver Gymnasium.
Cal Poly Pomona, the defending regional champion, improved to 25-6 with its 17th victory in the last 18 games. The Broncos will face Brigham Young University-Hawaii at 7 p.m. today in a rematch of the 2009 West Region championship game.
The NCAA Division II men's regional tournament at Western Washington University is under way, with BYU-Hawaii knocking off Seattle Pacific University 76-72 in the opening game.
Humboldt State University is playing CSU San Bernardino in the 2:30 p.m. game, and Dixie State University will take on Cal Poly Pomona at 5:30.
Top-seeded Western Washington University takes the court at 7:30 against arch-rival Central Washington University.
The Ross Engineering Technology building, named for former Western Washington University President G. Robert Ross (1983-1987), was completed in 1987. The building houses most of the offices, classrooms and labs for the Engineering Technology department.
A few weeks of late-winter sun have spurred trees and plants throughout campus to begin bursting into bloom earlier than normal. Weather forecasters expect a return to cloudy, cooler weather this week, however, with temperatures staying in the high 40s and low 50s.
