11-12: Excellence of Faculty and Staff

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Faculty member's short film to be screened at Seattle International Film Festival 2013-05-17
Western's Rebekah Green Receives Grant to Study Tsunami's Impact on Coastline Debris

Approximately 6,700 miles away from Misawa, Japan, one of the Port of Misawa's 65-foot long docks is battering the Washington coast.

Rebekah Green, associate director of the Resilience Institute at Western's Huxley College of the Environment, and two of her students are trying…

2013-02-21
Songs you love likely to stick with you

It may seem that only annoying songs get stuck in our head but a new study reveals the opposite is actually true.

Researchers at Western Washington University found songs people know and love are more likely to repeat in the brain and environmental cues triggered this phenomenon.

2013-02-20
How to instill false memories

Studies have shown that it's easy to make people falsely recall small details about events, but as the fake memories grow in complexity and specificity, implantation grows progressively harder, though not impossible. After three interviews, researchers at Western Washington University…

2013-02-19
Can you help with a writing study at WWU? 2013-02-19
WWU planetarium director to relay Mars rover updates on social media

Lifelong "space geek" Brad Snowder was born the year the Soviet satellite Sputnik launched the Space Race, but he was too young to celebrate the ensuing first U.S. satellite success.

Fifty-five years later, the Bellingham resident finds himself with an unexpected opportunity to…

2012-08-03
WWU's Joe Garcia facilitates SACNAS summer institute in Washington, D.C. 2012-08-03
Dana Jack honored by APA for latest book 2012-07-26
Five faculty selected for university awards 2012-06-21
Event June 5 showcases innovative faculty 2012-06-05
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