College of Humanities and Social Sciences

Virtually everyone experiences them, and rarely are they thought of fondly. They are earworms, the tunes that burrow into our consciousness and play on repeat.

In a recent study involving hundreds of people, Ira Hyman Jr. of Western Washington University and colleagues looked at what made…

By day she teaches and trains students in the WorkFirst program at Peninsula College.

And by night, Angie Huckstep is fierce and playful, a lioness with dark brown curls highlighted in purple.

Those plum-hued tendrils gleamed one recent night on the Allé Stage when Huckstep…

It sounds shocking, but earworms are an epidemic that affect at least 90 percent of people as often as once a week. That’s according to a Goldsmiths University study. But before you go logging onto WebMD, fear not! These earworms are more commonly referred to as songs, regular old songs — often…

Western Washington University plans to host a series of information sessions for its new program that will allow registered nurses to earn a bachelor’s degree in nursing.

The Downtown Bellingham Partnership is hosting a free Twitter seminar at 9 a.m. on Friday, Feb. 22, at the offices of DIS Corp. at 1315 Cornwall Ave.

The seminar is meant for registered members of the partnership. It will feature Jennifer Keller, an assistant professor of journalism at…

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.

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…