Honors Program

The University Honors College invites proposals for not fewer than 18 seminars to be offered during the 2022-2023 academic year. Honors Seminars are junior/senior-level courses and may be on any subject; interdisciplinary proposals are strongly encouraged.

Seminars are small, highly…

Richard Simon, a senior instructor in WWU's Honors Program and Fairhaven College of Interdisciplinary Studies, was recently named a finalist in the Pen America Literary Awards' Pen/Bellwether Prize for Socially Engaged Fiction for his unpublished book, "The Dolphin Ambassador's Daughter."

Western Freshman Abigayle Peterson has developed “Magnify Wellness,” a free mental wellness app available on the iOS app store.  

The app, which will also be available on the Android store this winter, includes eight features meant to develop and…

Western Freshman Abigayle Peterson has developed “Magnify Wellness,” a free mental wellness app available on the iOS app store.  

The app, which will also be available on the Android store this winter, includes eight features meant to develop and…

The University Honors Program invites proposals for not fewer than 18 seminars to be offered during the 2021-2022 academic year. Honors Seminars are junior/senior-level courses and may be on any subject; interdisciplinary proposals are strongly encouraged. Seminars are small,…

The University Honors Program invites proposals for not fewer than 18 seminars to be offered during the 2021-2022 academic year. Honors Seminars are junior/senior-level courses and may be on any subject; interdisciplinary proposals are strongly encouraged. Seminars are small,…

Western's Honors Program is hosting its first virtual Social Justice Community Engagement Group for students at 2 p.m. this Thursday, Aug. 6, with professors Anika Tilland-Stafford and Katie Brian. The SJCE group will meet bi-weekly to share resources, discuss current issues concerning…

More than 50 Western Washington University students and graduates received Outstanding Graduate honors for the 2019-20 academic year.

Faculty members from dozens of academic departments and programs select one graduate to honor as the Outstanding Graduate of the year. Selection is a…

Alaskan author, 1995 Western alumna and Pulitzer Prize finalist Eowyn Ivey will visit campus March 6 as part of Whatcom READS 2020.

Ivey’s latest novel, “To the Bright Edge of the World,” is this year's Whatcom READS book. The book is set in the first decades after the United States…

The WWU Honors Program invites proposals for not fewer than 20 seminars (3 credit-hour courses) to be offered during the 2020-2021 academic year. Honors Seminars are junior/senior-level courses and may be on any subject; interdisciplinary proposals are strongly encouraged. Seminars are small,…

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