College of Humanities and Social Sciences

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GMO ballot battle replays in Washington state	Monsanto and Dr. Bronner's Magic Soaps, the largest donors so far in Washington's upcoming ballot contest over labeling genetically engineered foods, know this fight well. They squared off over the same issue in California last year.	2013-09-27
WWU professor's family donates treasured reminder of 1963 church bombing	Rand Jimerson's father picked up some pieces of stained-glass window from the dynamited church. The date was Sept. 15, 1963. The place was Birmingham, Ala. Jimerson's father, Norman J. "Jim" Jimerson, a white Baptist minister, had moved his family to Birmingham two…	2013-09-23
Initiative 522: Familiar groups lead fight on GMO labeling	Monsanto and Dr. Bronner’s Magic Soaps, the largest donors so far in Washington’s upcoming ballot contest over labeling genetically engineered foods, know this fight well. They squared off over the same issue in California last year.	2013-09-23
Shards Of Stained Glass From Sixteenth Street Baptist Church Bombing Donated To Smithsonian	They were among the youngest martyrs of the civil rights movement, four young black girls — three 14-year-olds and one 11-year-old — whose deaths in a church basement horrified a nation already torn apart by segregation. This week, 50 years after the Ku Klux Klan bombing at Sixteenth…	2013-09-16
Birmingham church bombing recalled with donation, medal	“This was just a little over two weeks after the March on Washington, which had generated so much optimism for progress of civil rights,” recalled (WWU History Professor) Randall Jimerson, who was 14 when his white minister father scooped up the shards of glass from outside the bombed Birmingham…	2013-09-11
Piece of 16th Street Baptist Church being donated to Smithsonian	Randall Jimerson, an archivist and history professor at Western Washington University who lives in Bellingham, was 14 at the time of the bombing. The family, he says, was inspired to donate after hearing President Obama talk at the museum groundbreaking about how it would house artifacts that…	2013-09-10
From Window Magazine: Journeymen		2013-08-23
Birmingham-Southern eco-leader says Magic City could be "Portland of the South"	Birmingham can be the next coming of Portland, Ore., if it follows a path of sustainability, according to Roald Hazelhoff, director of the Southern Environmental Center (SEC) at Birmingham-Southern College (BSC). As the SEC looks forward to its 20th anniversary in 2014, Hazelhoff remains…	2013-08-14
Romance, gender, and the measure of a 'real book'	"Why would you waste your talent on writing … that?" Most romance authors have gotten a similar question. (This one came many years ago from a dear friend who has since taken it back, and not because there were threats involved. I swear.) University professors Joanna Gregson and Jen…	2013-08-12
Trimble presents at APA convention in Hawaii		2013-08-06

GMO ballot battle replays in Washington state

Monsanto and Dr. Bronner's Magic Soaps, the largest donors so far in Washington's upcoming ballot contest over labeling genetically engineered foods, know this fight well.

They squared off over the same issue in California last year.

2013-09-27

WWU professor's family donates treasured reminder of 1963 church bombing

Rand Jimerson's father picked up some pieces of stained-glass window from the dynamited church. The date was Sept. 15, 1963. The place was Birmingham, Ala.

Jimerson's father, Norman J. "Jim" Jimerson, a white Baptist minister, had moved his family to Birmingham two…

2013-09-23

Initiative 522: Familiar groups lead fight on GMO labeling

Monsanto and Dr. Bronner’s Magic Soaps, the largest donors so far in Washington’s upcoming ballot contest over labeling genetically engineered foods, know this fight well.

They squared off over the same issue in California last year.

2013-09-23

Shards Of Stained Glass From Sixteenth Street Baptist Church Bombing Donated To Smithsonian

They were among the youngest martyrs of the civil rights movement, four young black girls — three 14-year-olds and one 11-year-old — whose deaths in a church basement horrified a nation already torn apart by segregation.

This week, 50 years after the Ku Klux Klan bombing at Sixteenth…

2013-09-16

Birmingham church bombing recalled with donation, medal

“This was just a little over two weeks after the March on Washington, which had generated so much optimism for progress of civil rights,” recalled (WWU History Professor) Randall Jimerson, who was 14 when his white minister father scooped up the shards of glass from outside the bombed Birmingham…

2013-09-11

Piece of 16th Street Baptist Church being donated to Smithsonian

Randall Jimerson, an archivist and history professor at Western Washington University who lives in Bellingham, was 14 at the time of the bombing. The family, he says, was inspired to donate after hearing President Obama talk at the museum groundbreaking about how it would house artifacts that…

2013-09-10

From Window Magazine: Journeymen

2013-08-23

Birmingham-Southern eco-leader says Magic City could be "Portland of the South"

Birmingham can be the next coming of Portland, Ore., if it follows a path of sustainability, according to Roald Hazelhoff, director of the Southern Environmental Center (SEC) at Birmingham-Southern College (BSC).

As the SEC looks forward to its 20th anniversary in 2014, Hazelhoff remains…

2013-08-14

Romance, gender, and the measure of a 'real book'

"Why would you waste your talent on writing … that?" Most romance authors have gotten a similar question. (This one came many years ago from a dear friend who has since taken it back, and not because there were threats involved. I swear.) University professors Joanna Gregson and Jen…

2013-08-12

Trimble presents at APA convention in Hawaii

2013-08-06