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These Chinese Christians Were Branded A Criminal ‘Cult.’ Now They Have to Flee

Holly Folk, a professor at Western Washington University, is sympathetic. “Once you examine the track record,” she says, “you realize none of the accusations are true.” Analyzing the campaign against the CAG, “You see the exact same move by the Chinese government against the Falun Gong.”

2020-02-19
Curiosity rover overcomes temporary freeze after ‘attitude adjustment’

"In the images from orbit, it looks like someone drew a thick straight line with a dark felt marker on the southeastern side of the butte," wrote Melissa Rice, planetary geologist at Western Washington University in a mission blog post. "From the ground, it looks like a shallow ditch filled with…

2020-01-24
New Book by Western’s Jared Ross Hardesty Shines a Fresh Light on Slavery in New England 2020-01-24
The Past and the Future of the Earth’s Oldest Trees

"Hope you’ve read up on the curse of the bristlecone,” Andy Bunn told me, with mock concern, over breakfast at a diner in Bishop, California. We were joined by Matt Salzer, a veteran researcher from the Laboratory of Tree-Ring Research. Bunn, who teaches environmental…

2020-01-14
How 30 years of research built a language bridge between Siberia and the native peoples of North America 2020-01-09
Huxley's Gigi Berardi pens 'FoodWISE,' new book about making healthy, sustainable food choices 2020-01-08
Here’s how warming in the Cascades impacts the Nooksack River in Whatcom County

As the temperature of the region increases because of climate change, the snowpack is reduced to higher and higher elevations causing changes in the creeks and rivers that flow from the mountains, according to Robert Mitchell, who is a professor at Western Washington…

2019-12-24
A deep-sea magma monster, Axial Seamount, gets a body scan

“A significant fraction of Earth’s volcanism happens at places like Axial,” said Rubin, referring to the mid-oceanic ridges, which collectively represent a spine of volcanism stretching about 40,000 miles around the world.

But it won’t be a breeze to finish this work. Years of processing…

2019-12-03
Western’s Wayne Landis Receives NSF Grant to Better Understand the Impacts of Microplastics on Aquatic Life 2019-12-02
WWU Research Team Trying to Unlock the Recycling Potential of Ocean Plastic

Western Washington University associate professor of Engineering and Design John Misasi and a team of his undergraduate students are working to understand how the world could best use these discarded plastics in the hope that proving their commercial viability could create a robust market for…

2019-11-22
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