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Rep. Nancy Mace warns her party to adopt a more ‘centrist’ abortion agenda or lose women voters

“I think that Mace is right that the Republican Party right now as it stands, their anti-abortion stances, are not in line with Republican women and Republican-leaning independent women,” said Catherine Wineinger, an expert on gender and politics at Western Washington University.…

2023-01-31
Recent MFA Grad Caity Scott Wins Distinguished Thesis Award for Their Game, 'Bitter Roots' 2023-01-30
Whatcom County students participating in linguistics event on campus today 2023-01-26
Fossil teeth reveal how brains developed in utero over millions of years of human evolution

Fossilized bones help tell the story of what human beings and our predecessors were doing hundreds of thousands of years ago. But how can you learn about important parts of our ancestors’ life cycle – like pregnancy or gestation – that leave no obvious trace in the fossil record?

The…

2023-01-26
Professors Turn to ChatGPT to Teach Students a Lesson

Last month a professor at Weber State University in Utah asked a new artificial-intelligence chatbot to write a tweet in his voice.

Within a few minutes the application, called ChatGPT, had spit out a dozen messages that captured Alex Lawrence’s tone and personality. His first reaction…

2023-01-25
Acclaimed poet Paul Ceballos coming to campus Feb. 2 2023-01-24
ChatGPT Advice Academics Can Use Now

Remind Students to Think.

Johann N. Neem, professor of history, Western Washington University

With ChatGPT, a student can turn in a passable assignment without reading a book, writing a word or having a thought. But …

2023-01-12
Upcoming Internal Grant Application Deadlines for Faculty 2023-01-09
Upcoming Grant Application Deadlines for Students 2023-01-09
Boston takes rare step of apologizing for its role in slavery and its lasting harm

About a quarter of all white Bostonians who had estate inventory taken between 1700 and 1775 owned enslaved people, according to Western Washington University history professor Jared Ross Hardesty, who is quoted in the resolution. At the peak of slavery in…

2023-01-04
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