Physical Education, Health and Recreation Department
Jill Heckathorn, a senior instructor in Physical Education, Health and Recreation at Western Washington University, has been honored for her work with Camp TEAM, a summer camp she created almost a decade ago for community members with disabilities.
The 2011 Peace Builder…
Kristen Pettet, a senior community health major at Western Washington University, is in Uganda this summer completing her full-time internship with the VOLSET Foundation. Pettet, working in Uganda's Mukono district, is involved in health education at the Future Diplomats Education Centre, a not-…
Ralph Vernacchia, a professor in Western Washington University's department of physical education, health and recreation, discusses the sport of track and field, the Olympic Games and his coming retirement from the university.
Vernacchia, director of Western's Center for Performance…
Ralph Vernacchia, a professor in the department of Physical Education, Health and Recreation at Western Washington University and director of the university's Center for Performance Excellence, is retiring.
A party will be throw on his behalf on May 7 at the Bellingham Golf and…
Western Washington University’s Center for Instructional Innovation and Assessment has announced the nominees who will be featured in the next Innovative Teaching Showcase, to be published in June:
Nicole Brown, English Jill Heckathorn, Physical Education…Western Washington University’s Center for Performance Excellence will offer its annual Peak Performance class, a five-session course from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m., Tuesday nights from Jan. 11 through Feb. 8 in Academic Instructional Center West 210 on the WWU campus.
The…
The annual Peak Performance class, from Western Washington University's Center for Performance Excellence starts Tuesday, Jan. 11.
Keith Russell, an associate professor in Physical Education, Health and Recreation, has been selected as the 2010 Distinguished Researcher by the International Association for Experiential Education. Russell will receive the award Nov. 6 at the international conference in Las Vegas.
The…
Fourteen national handball titles and six world four-wall championships could not prevent LeaAnn Martin from feeling some unexpected butterflies.
But, like a quarterback whose pre-game nervousness vanishes with that first pass, her butterflies began to disappear with her first words…
Western Washington University’s Center for Performance Excellence will offer its annual Peak Performance class, a five-session course from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m., Tuesday nights from April 13 through May 11 in Academic Instructional Center West Room 210 on the WWU campus.
The course is…