College of Humanities and Social Sciences

Cori Pflug-Tilton likes to be prepared for whatever may come, and she has to be, as principal of Snoqualmie Elementary School.

“It’s a very dynamic place,” she said one morning during the last week of school. Students and staff were eagerly anticipating Friday, and…

Brian Baird is talking, in paragraphs, about marine snails the size of lentils that are in danger of dying out from the increasing acidity of oceans.

He's speaking with authority about how the loss of those pteropods would disrupt up the food chain, and, for a moment, it's as if…

The beginning of the end of Ethan Remmel's life began just over a year ago with an ache in his abdomen.

He didn't think much of it at the time. After all, he was fit, he ate well and he was only 40 years old. But the pain worsened, so he went to a doctor. Later, after a…

Christopher Wise, an English professor at Western Washington University, has been one of the organizers for the Bellingham community's recognition and numerous events about the forced removal of the Chinese from the Puget Sound region around 1885.

"Emerald Bay," a ballet…

While our nation may be moving quickly to become a true rainbow of racial diversity, America’s newsrooms aren’t keeping pace.

"Minorities make up 35 percent of the nation's population," said Sanjay Bhatt, a Seattle Times business reporter speaking at Tuesday's (June 7…

Jennifer Karchmer, current editor of Whatcom Watch, received three Communicator of Excellence awards recognizing her reporting from Vancouver, B.C. of the 2010 Winter Olympics. She won First Place for Social Issues & Minority Affairs (Non-Daily Publication) with her story “Not All Fun and…