Faculty Research
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| Old North Church, a beacon of freedom, grapples with its own ties to slavery | Nearly a decade ago, Boston’s Old North Church opened a Colonial-themed chocolate shop named for Captain Newark Jackson, a prominent early member of the historic church and a pillar of Boston’s lucrative chocolate trade with the British in the 1700s. For years, Colonial… |
2022-12-01 | |
| Hawaii’s Mauna Loa erupts for the first time in 38 years. What happens next? | After a 38-year period of calm—the longest in its recorded history—Hawaii’s Mauna Loa has reawakened. At approximately 11:30 p.m. local time on Sunday, Mauna Loa, the largest active volcano in the world, began… |
2022-11-29 | |
| WWU’s Emily Roland and Six Undergrads Spend Week at Sea Gathering Data from the Queen Charlotte Fault off SE Alaska | 2022-10-31 | ||
| The Clean Water Act turns 50: A Q&A with WWU's Jean Melious and Angela Strecker | 2022-10-25 | ||
| Molecular Biosciences Symposium returns to campus Oct. 21 | 2022-10-13 | ||
| 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 | |
| Researchers find potentially harmful level of pollutants in edible seaweed | The plentiful seaweed off the shores of Fidalgo and other surrounding islands has concentrated contaminants, according to a study published recently by a team at Western Washington University. It's the same seaweed that is often eaten by area tribal members and kayakers looking for a… |
2022-10-05 | |
| Skagit County sites included in Salish Sea seaweed toxicity study | The toxicity levels of seaweed at two Skagit County sites were included in a Salish Sea study done by Western Washington University researchers. The study, published in the scientific journal PLoS One on Sept. 23, looked at three species of edible seaweed at 43 Salish… |
2022-10-03 | |
| Upcoming Internal Grant Application Deadlines for Faculty | 2022-09-29 | ||
| Study raises concerns about contaminants in edible seaweeds | A new study just published by researchers at Western Washington University (WWU) reports concentrations of up to 162 chemical contaminants in three species of edible seaweeds gathered in the Salish Sea. |
2022-09-28 |