College of Humanities and Social Sciences

People moving to Whatcom County tend to be younger and poorer than the overall county population, according to the latest compilation of data from the U.S. Census Bureau.

In a comparison of Washington counties, other states and foreign locations, released by the Census Bureau on Feb. 6,…

Andy Buckman's new business is his way of bringing some of the exceptional parts of China to Bellingham.

Buckman recently opened Great Horse Teas on the first floor of the Sycamore Square building at 1200 Harris Ave. Buckman regularly visits farms in several different provinces of…

Western alumnus Jake Merrill, 23, was killed in an avalanche Tuesday, Feb. 11, while guiding a backcountry skiing expedition in Northeastern Oregon’s Wallowa Mountains.
Merrill was one of two guides leading the six-skier and two-guide expedition.

A Bellingham climber and skier is one of two people who died in an avalanche Tuesday, Feb. 11, on Wallowa Mountain in northeast Oregon, according to the Baker County Sheriff's Office.

On Thursday the local sheriff's office identified 23-year-old Jake…

To Andriy Semenyuk, Ukraine is home.
The Western Washington University alumnus has been among the thousands of people uniting in the main square of Kiev, known as the Maidan, at all hours in the sub-zero temperatures of the Ukrainian winter.
Semenyuk graduated from Western in 2008…

I hate to sound all hard-core, fundamentalist, evangelical religious, but it just may be true that music is the instrument of the devil.

And if that’s the case, the music website Pandora.com is the devil’s stomping grounds, and the earworm — aka the song stuck in your head — is his…