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Western’s Fall 2022 First-Year Cohort is the Largest in WWU History 2022-10-07
Our ancestors’ prenatal growth sped up after we split from chimps

High prenatal growth rates found in modern people may have first evolved in ancient hominids less than a million years ago, according to estimates based on fossil teeth.

Human fetuses grow by around 11.6 grams per day on average – considerably faster than the fetuses of gorillas, the…

2022-10-05
Upcoming Internal Grant Application Deadlines for Students 2022-09-28
Fairhaven's Regina Jefferies to moderate Q&A after screening of 'Hostile' Oct. 10 at the Pickford Cinema downtown  2022-09-27
Bremerton native accomplishes her dream of working in foreign affairs

"This is my favorite position," Luong said. "The work is challenging but very rewarding."

Luong received her master of arts certificates in international relations and Mandarin from Brigham Young University and John's Hopkins Nanjing Center in 2005 and earned her bachelor's degree in…

2022-09-21
U.S. News Ranks WWU as Top Public Master’s-Granting School in Pacific Northwest for the 23rd Straight Year 2022-09-12
Journalism's Carolyn Nielsen wins AEJMC award for latest paper 2022-08-18
In Memoriam: Karen Bradley 2022-08-08
WWU Professor Edward Vajda co-authors new Yeniseian dictionary 2022-07-29
A Malian Writer Finds a Postmortem Revival: How a French literary event in 2021 brought author Yambo Ouologuem back to life

In November 2021, a major event occurred in the French literary world: A 31-year-old Senegalese writer, Mohamed Mbougar Sarr, won the country’s most prestigious literary award, the Prix Goncourt, for his novel “La plus secrète mémoire des hommes” (“The Most Secret Memory of Men”). It was the…

2022-07-27
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