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WWU's EVERYbody Project: Challenging Our Beliefs About Body Image  2021-08-18
Should Seattle use ranked-choice voting?

“There was slightly less reported high levels of understanding in [ranked-choice voting] communities, but they were really high across the board,” says Todd Donovan, a political science professor at Western Washington University and a co-author of the study.

2021-08-04
Western's Meg Warren publishes new article in The Conversation 2021-07-21
Connecting to Cabo Verde: A Q&A with WWU's Karen McLean Dade  2021-07-19
Voices of a New Democracy: Journalism faculty reflect on Tunisia trip, research   2021-07-14
This is what the heat wave did at Mount Baker and what that means for Whatcom County

Bob Mitchell, a professor of hydrogeology at Western Washington University, said that if the planet’s warming trend continues, Mount Baker’s glaciers will keep retreating and the Nooksack could become fed by rainfall, rather than by glacial melt.

“We’re predicting that the snowline will…

2021-07-12
Oregon's comprehensive & contentious wildfire response bill left for the last week in session

“I challenge anyone to talk about a solution at that scale,” said Michael Medler, a professor at Western Washington University whose research focuses on mapping and analyzing natural disturbances such as wildfires. “If money is going to be spent and thinning is going to be done, most of those…

2021-06-18
The Salish Sea: An imperiled wonder of the Northwest

The Salish Sea stretches almost 400 miles from the southern end of Puget Sound near Olympia, to the northern boundary of the Strait of Georgia in British Columbia. It's easy to take for granted, and a new study suggests we do so at our peril.

2021-06-09
WWU's Richard Simon named a finalist for the PEN/Bellwether Prize for Socially Engaged Fiction 2021-06-09
For Western’s Jeanine Amacher, ‘Good Things Come in Threes’ 2021-05-13
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