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This Bellingham company's equipment just might save your life someday

“His stuff is everywhere,” said Bill Boyd, recently retired chief of Bellingham Fire Department. “I was in Hawaii on the beach with my wife and the lifeguard was driving around, there were Conterra kits in that.”

Boyd and Lipke were friends at Western Washington…

2017-03-20
Is there such a thing as good eugenics?

Some of the biggest supporters of human-embryo editing today are people who carry genes for serious disorders like beta thalassemia, the disease the Chinese scientists were working on. Jeff Carroll, a Western Washington University neuroscientist who…

2017-03-17
How to Respond to an Offensive Comment at Work

Even if you think you would say something in the situation, you may find the reality is different. Research by Alexander Czopp, the director of the Center for Cross-Cultural Research at Western Washington University, and his colleagues show…

2017-02-10
Free counseling at Western Washington University

You can take advantage of free counseling at Western Washington University.

Grad students in Western’s Psychology Department are the counselors.

2017-01-18
WWU Offering Free Counseling Services 2017-01-05
'Airings' coming to the PAC Jan. 25 2016-12-12
WWU professor is searching for a cure for Huntington’s Disease

A Western Washington University professor is getting millions-of-dollars in grants to fight a disease he knows well.

Jeff Carroll is hoping to find a cure for Huntington’s Disease.

“Everyone with the disease so far has died from it,” says…

2016-12-05
WWU professor has personal reason for securing millions in grants to cure Huntington's Disease

A professor at Western Washington University in Bellingham spends every day working on a cure for Huntington's Disease-- and has secured millions in grants to make that happen.

Watch the story: http://www.…

2016-12-01
Western’s Jeff Carroll Awarded New $800k Grant to Research Huntington’s Disease 2016-11-29
How to be the guy who stops offensive speech (instead of 'egging it on')

So how could Bush have handled it differently? Western Washington University psychology professor Alex Czopp has studied this, and he says there are strategies you can use to push back against people who say something offensive.

"Depending on the…

2016-10-19
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