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COVID-19 map project at Western Washington University aims to show what’s happening with case numbers and deaths — and why

While state policies to curb the spread of COVID-19 have created hardships, a data analysis conducted at Western Washington University shows they make a difference.

Patrick Buckley, a professor of environmental studies, has created maps that compare cases and death rates throughout the…

2020-11-30
WWU’s Gigi Berardi Wins Living Now Book Award for ‘FoodWISE’  2020-10-15
WWU’s Gigi Berardi Wins Living Now Book Award for ‘FoodWISE’  2020-10-15
WWU’s Patrick Buckley Analyzing Spread and Regional Patterns of Coronavirus Using Unique Set of Maps Called Cartograms 2020-09-28
Western Washington University sustainability studies take root in valley

A new Methow-based Community Learning Program has just concluded its pilot summer initiative. Nine Western Washington University undergraduate fellows lived and worked in the Methow Valley while researching and implementing various sustainability initiatives.

Community organizations that…

2020-09-22
In South Seattle, teens collect moss to help ID air quality

Residents of Seattle’s Duwamish River Valley have long known they suffer from high levels of air pollution. Air pollution that comes from nearby heavy industry, highways and air traffic has plagued South Seattle neighborhoods.

To the point that we have 13 years of life…

2020-07-06
Planning continues for future of downtown Arlington

The city of Arlington continues to work with Western Washington University to formulate a plan for the future of the city's downtown corridor.

Planning began this fall and continued with an April 23 teleconference Zoom meeting with presentations for the plans for  Olympic Avenue.…

2020-04-30
Concrete students get immersed in mountain science at Snow School

Snow School instructors Olivia Finley (center) and Vivien Zoller, both students at Western Washington University’s Huxley College of the Environment, taught Concrete eighth-graders Feb. 14 about algae that live in the snow and how to collect samples for research.

2020-02-24
How Academic Science Gave Its Soul to the Publishing Industry

America’s globally preeminent university research enterprise is constructed on two bedrock principles of self-governance. The first is autonomy: academic scientists should be left free to determine their own research agendas. The second is internal accountability: the quality of academic science…

2020-02-10
Trump Might Do Something Genuinely Good for Science

In December, in the midst of the political wrangling associated with President Trump’s impeachment, a news report gave me hope. According to it, Trump’s administration was working on an executive order that would require…

2020-02-10
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