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New WWU report cites these key threats to the Salish Sea ecosystem

Urban sprawl and climate change remain a major threat to the Salish Sea, according to a new report from Western Washington University.

Lead author Kathryn Sobocinski and others examined the region’s diverse creatures and habitat as a single ecosystem in the 275-page report, …

2021-05-27
The man who taught millions of Americans to read before being forgotten

Story on William Holmes McGuffey quotes Johann Neem, chair of Western's History Department.

2021-05-24
WWU's NSSLHA Club to host screening of 'My Beautiful Stutter' on May 21 2021-05-18
Smallpox and urban nature in 1860s San Francisco

Features the research of Associate Professor of Jennifer Seltz via the Organization of American Historians.

2021-05-13
Grief, fear, helplessness fill Indians overseas. It’s a wake-up call too

India’s Covid surge and the accompanying humanitarian calamity has left the nearly 4.8 million people strong Indian-American community reeling. Few, if any, from this community have been left untouched, and feelings of grief, fear, and helplessness are widespread, as people …

2021-05-10
WWU to host Susan Burch May 18 for 'Committed: Remembering Native Kinship in and beyond Institutions' 2021-05-10
WWU's Sheryl Bernardo-Hinesley to discuss the Philippines' vanishing Cavite Chabacano language May 13 2021-05-03
WWU’s Ray Wolpow Institute to Stream Critically Acclaimed Film ‘Transit’ May 7-14  2021-05-03
University of Minnesota's Jillian Fish to present 'The Ecology of Storytelling in Native America' May 10 2021-05-03
Research Recap for April 30 2021-04-30
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