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Don’t cut Pell Grants, college leaders urge Congress

University of Missouri-Kansas City Chancellor Leo Morton today joined college leaders on Capitol Hill and pleaded for lawmakers to spare funding for Pell Grants for the nation’s poor students.

Pell Grants, which unlike loans don’t have to be paid back, each year aid some 10 million lower-…

2011-07-20
Amid federal debt reduction talks, Pell grants still at risk

College students from low-income families have long relied on federal Pell grants to help pay for tuition. Earlier this year, $4 billion was slashed from the Pell budget. Republicans in the House, under a budget proposed by Rep. Paul Ryan (R-Wis.), but rejected by the Senate, would have slashed…

2011-07-15
Washington Campus Compact awarded $100,000 grant for degree-completion efforts 2011-06-08
Grant to Create DB of Potential Earthquake Scenarios

Western Washington University assistant professor of Environmental Studies Scott Miles and Research Associate Rebekah Green of Western Washington University's Resilience Institute have received a $45,000 grant from the Washington Emergency Management Division (WAEMD) to create and populate…

2011-05-26
State university receives grant to create database of disaster scenarios

There are few things in life as frightening as being in the midst of a major earthquake. They often begin as a low vibration, a feel and a sound as though a large truck is rumbling by outside a house or office.

Quickly they escalate into a fierce, deadly freight train of a roar with…

2011-05-04
Biology’s Craig Moyer awarded Consortium for Ocean Leadership grant 2011-04-14
Huxley’s John Rybczyk awarded Nature Conservancy grant; students to assist in research 2011-04-13
Jeffrey Grimm gets grant to involve undergrads in biomedical research 2011-04-11
Funding available for undergrad research and creative activities; apps due April 7 2011-04-04
WWU theater, dance departments get National Endowment for the Arts grant

Western Washington University's departments of theater and dance has been honored for a fourth time with a National Endowment for the Arts grant to restage a Masterpiece of American Modern Dance.

Dance faculty member Susan Haines was awarded a grant for WWU Dance students to learn…

2011-04-04
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