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WWU's Melissa Rice celebrates one-year anniversary of rover Mars landing with speaking events at Museum of Flight 2022-02-18
How a Washington geologist is helping with the search for life on Mars

NASA celebrated the successful landing of its Perseverance rover on the surfaces of Mars on Thursday. Now, the real work begins, as the rover begins its search for signs of life on the planet’s surface, with the aid of Western Washington University planetary geologist …

2021-02-22
How a Washington geologist is helping with the search for life on Mars

NASA celebrated the successful landing of its Perseverance rover on the surfaces of Mars on Thursday. Now, the real work begins, as the rover begins its search for signs of life on the planet’s surface, with the aid of Western Washington University planetary geologist …

2021-02-22
NASA picks Researchers to take part in Curiosity Mars Rover mission

NASA has selected 28 researchers as participating scientists for the Curiosity Mars rover mission, including six newcomers to the rover’s science team.
The six new additions work in Alabama, Colorado, Indiana, Pennsylvania, Michigan and Tennessee. Eighty-nine scientists around the world…

2016-03-14
WCC workshops point boys, girls toward nontraditional careers

A “Guys & Guts” workshop aims to steer middle-school boys toward the careers in the medical profession that are more frequently held by women with presentations and activities from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday, March 5, at Whatcom Community College.

Participants will visit a biology lab…

2016-03-03
What’s happening in Whatcom County for Oct. 19

The International Society for Optics and Photonics (SPIE) and Western Washington University’s Compass 2 Campus Program will host “An Evening of Light” from 6:30-7:30 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 20, at the Western Performing Arts Center.

The free event open to everyone features Melissa Rice, a…

2015-10-20
OU research team creates new molecule

An OU physicist is leading a research team that has created a new molecule, resulting in an article in Science magazine and a possible pathway to quantum computers.

James Shaffer, a professor of atomic, molecular and optical physics, led a team that included Hossein Sadeghpour of Harvard…

2015-04-20
Western professor elected to Washington State Academy of Sciences

George "Pinky" Nelson, a former NASA astronaut and current professor of physics and astronomy at Western Washington University, has been elected to the Washington State Academy of Sciences.

2012-08-13
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