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After a three-year hiatus, the Industrial Design program at Western Washington University, in partnership with local design shop Ideal, invite the public to attend the opening night of "ReMade: Tools for Living" on Friday March 10 at 6 p.m. at Ideal,1227 Cornwall Ave. in downtown Bellingham.…
Fifteen Western students just completed three weeks in Senegal, where they were immersed in the study of West African literature and culture.
The Faculty-led Global Learning Program was led by WWU English Professor Christopher Wise and Program Coordinator Ablaye Diakite, who works with…
Spy balloon triggers fascination, amazement, and one recurring question: What's going on with China?
Who knew that a single balloon could trigger a nation? But this month's Chinese Spy Balloon hysteria certainly did just that, as the country - and the whole world - watched with fascination as the balloon slowly drifted its way eastward until it was finally downed off of Myrtle Beach, South…
Bellingham, Washington, February 13, 2023 — Western Washington University has just been named a Fulbright Top Producing Institution for U.S. Students by the U.S. Department of State’s Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs. Five WWU students were selected for Fulbright U.S. awards for…
Rayson Alex, Fulbright Scholar in residence at Fairhaven College of Interdisciplinary Studies during the fall quarter and the first part of winter quarter, says that the common denominator of his experience at Western has been “community.”
Alex, whose teaches courses in the…
In this week's Research Recap, we have have three graduate students from three different colleges at Western, each sharing their important work. For in-depth stories on research at Western, go to Gaia, the university's online journal of research and scholarship, at https://medium.com/gaia-wwu,…
ChatGPT is incredibly advanced software that uses artificial intelligence to formulate answers and participate in discussions in a fully realistic, conversational way. The problem? It’s so startlingly good at its job that it is often indistinguishable from what a human would type or say, which…
Caity Scott (they/them), a recent graduate of Western’s MFA in Creative Writing program, was recently announced as the Western Association of Graduate Schools (WAGS) and ProQuest winner for Distinguished Master’s Thesis and/or Final Master’s Capstone Project Award in the Creative, Visual, and…
Computer science: It’s a vast field with endless areas for specialization, an enormous range of career options, and an abundance of well-paying, varied jobs. With a computer science degree, doors open on a diversity of opportunities.
But the diversity of opportunities for computer…
Olympic College and Western Washington University are strengthening their partnership to increase enrollment in the community college and encourage more Olympic Peninsula residents to continue on to earn their four-year degrees at WWU. Washington’s rapid growth and development as a global hub of…