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WWU Research Team Trying to Unlock the Recycling Potential of Ocean Plastic

Western Washington University associate professor of Engineering and Design John Misasi and a team of his undergraduate students are working to understand how the world could best use these discarded plastics in the hope that proving their commercial viability could create a robust market for…

2019-11-22
Rising Northwest waters bring tough choice: fight or flight

While the treatment plant on the Skagit is standing its ground, that approach won’t work everywhere.

One river to the south, Katrina Poppe and John Rybczyk sledge-hammered a white, meter-long tube of plastic into the mud.

Rybczyk sported mud boots and shorts;…

2019-10-28
Old North Church, a cherished symbol, opens up about its link to slavery

That past includes a pact by Jackson and fellow parishioners George Ledain and Edward Tothill to smuggle slaves illegally from Barbados to Suriname, according to Jared Ross Hardesty, the former BC doctoral student who now teaches history at Western Washington University…

2019-10-28
WWU's Ed Vajda to Discuss the Ancient Language Link Between Siberia and North America Nov. 8 at City Hall 2019-10-23
WWU’s Stefania Heim publishes new book on Italian artist Giorgio de Chirico 2019-10-21
WWU's Deb Donovan and her students fight to save the Salish Sea's pinto abalone 2019-10-09
WWU wins NASA contract to build new instrument to help Mars rover scientists 2019-10-07
‘Rafters,’ the Northwest Passage, and the Future of the Unspoiled Arctic 2019-10-01
New novel by WWU's Kate Trueblood shines light on the at-times harsh realities of modern family life 2019-09-24
Gaia’s findings on travelling stars

WWU's Marina Kounkel used data from Gaia’s second release to trace the structure and star formation activity of a large patch of space surrounding the solar system, and to explore how this changed over time. This data release, provided in April 2018, lists the motions and positions of over…

2019-09-19
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