College of Science and Engineering

Western Washington University Professor of Geology Scott Linneman has been named the state’s Higher Education Science Teacher of the Year by the Washington Science Teachers Association.
Linneman, who has taught at Western since 2000, received the award at the National Science Teachers…

Peter Haug has certainly traveled to more dangerous places, such as Iraq and Afghanistan, but perhaps none as ominously quirky as North Korea, where he spent eight days as a tourist in early September.
An oppressive communist dynasty, North Korea is at the bottom of Americans' list of…

Until now, most seismic research on landslides has focused on how to identify individual slides among the general seismic din of the Earth. But in comparison with earthquakes, rockslides produce "kinda ugly signals", so they are difficult to detect, says Jackie Caplan-Auerbach, a…

Scientists should communicate with the public about their research. We've been hearing variations on that for years, but a recent decision by a group of scientists to use crowdfunding to ask for research dollars directly from the public has revisited this notion in a new way. I'm…