grants

Western Washington University announced Tuesday it had received a grant for nearly $450,000, which will be used to study specialized science and math teaching in three Skagit County school districts.
The grant, awarded by the National Science Foundation, will fund a three-year project…

Washington state's Joint Center for Aerospace Technology Innovation or JCATI has invested more than $1.36 million in some 18 aerospace research projects at the University of Washington, Washington State University and Western Washington University.

Western Washington University's Compass 2 Campus youth mentoring program won $25,000 in the State Farm Neighborhood Assist program, according to a university press release.

More than 3,000 programs competed in the program, a youth-led philanthropy that helps communities improve…

The very public death of the Washington Dream Act has left those in Olympia who killed the legislation grasping for a way of explaining why they wouldn’t permit the state Senate even to vote on it.

The latest line, peddled on a conservative radio talk show: Democrats’ purpose in…

Three graduate students have been selected to receive grants in support of their geologic research on Mount Baker, according to Dave Tucker of the Mount Baker Volcano Research Center. Dave writes:

The grants, awarded by Bellingham-based Mount Baker Volcano Research Center, will go to Mai…

THE state Senate higher-education chairwoman has squandered a golden opportunity to help some of Washington’s most promising high-school graduates continue their education.

House Bill 1817, known as the Washington Dream Act, would allow low-income, high-school…

Two Western Washington University graduate student wildlife researchers who received some of their funding from Seattle City Light’s Wildlife Research Program won awards from the Washington and Oregon chapters of The Wildlife Society during the organization’s 2013 annual meeting.

Leslie…