College of Science and Engineering

Whatcom County is well served in the training of computer-security practitioners. The established, accredited two-year Cybersecurity program at Whatcom Community College has now been joined by a second two-year program at Western Washington University, together culminating in a bachelor's…

A team from Western Washington University won the Pacific Rim Collegiate Cyber Defense Competition regional at Highline Community College in March and was to attend the National Collegiate Cyber Defense Competition this past weekend in San Antonio, Texas.

Western Washington University students are competing, for the first time, in a national competition that pits computer-science students against each other in a three-day exercise in cyber defense.

Winners of the National Collegiate Cyber Defense Competition get a…

Kenmore resident Sarah O’Sell helped a team of six Western Washington University students win $10,000 for their NOVA Solar Window plan during the Sixth Annual Environmental Innovation Challenge on April 3 at the Seattle Center’s Exhibition Hall.

Geologist Don Easterbrook scoffed when he heard news reports that called the Oso slide on the Stillaguamish River the biggest in the United States.

The Stillaguamish slide on March 22, 2014, killed more than 30 people, dammed the river and shut down a state highway. Its estimated volume…