Faculty Research
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| 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 | |
| Study: Restoring Washington wetlands can fight climate change | A new study out of Western Washington University found restored wetlands stored a significant amount of carbon from the atmosphere, showing promise in the efforts to mitigate climate change. Dr. John Rybczyk and his research assistant Katrina Poppe compared the rate of carbon being… |
2019-09-05 | |
| Psychology's Jeff Carroll co-authors new paper | 2019-08-12 | ||
| WWU’s Tim Kowalczyk Wins Prestigious Early Career Award from the National Science Foundation | 2019-07-15 | ||
| Goat Moving 2.0 | It’s that time of year again! Goats are swinging from helicopters from the Olympics to the North Cascades. David Wallin is a mountain goat researcher at Western Washington University. |
2019-07-10 | |
| Officials moved nearly 100 mountain goats from the Olympics last summer. How are they doing now? | Four undergraduate students at Western Washington University will visit the translocated goats, now dispersed throughout the mountain range, over a seven-week stretch this summer. The students will take four-day trips, traveling several miles toward the goats’ GPS… |
2019-07-03 | |
| Biology's Alejandro Acevedo-Gutierrez: Seals, salmon and the Salish Sea | 2019-06-20 | ||
| CRISPR babies: When will the world be ready? | Jeff Carroll had been married for six months when he and his wife decided not to have children. Carroll, 25 years old and a former corporal in the US Army, had just found out that he had the mutation that causes Huntington’s disease, a genetic disorder that ravages the brain and… |
2019-06-20 | |
| Inside the World of Computer Vision: A Q&A with Scott Wehrwein | 2019-05-13 | ||
| WWU Scholars Week set for May 13-17; to Feature the Research of More Than 110 Undergraduates and 58 Graduate Students | 2019-05-09 |