Videos
John Miles, a professor in the Department of Environmental Studies at Western Washington University, talks about his book "Koma Kulshan" on the television show "ENW with Deb Slater," aired on KVOS TV-12 in Bellingham.
Western Washington University freshman John Place demonstrates what it's like giving blood during the recent blood drive held on campus April 20 to 22. During the drive, the Puget Sound Blood Center registered 453 donors and collected 354 units of blood. This will benefit up to 1,062 patients.
Each weekday, according to the blood center, 900 people must donate blood to meet the needs of patients in Western Washington hospitals.
Students from Western Washington University's Vehicle Research Institute took Viking 45 to the test track this week, cruising the roads at Pacific Raceways in Kent. WWU is one of just two universities still in the running for the Progressive Automotive X-Prize, the first stage of which begins Monday, April 26, in Detroit, and runs through May 7.
The purpose of this first stage, the "shakedown competition," is to conduct safety inspections and on-track dynamic safety evaluations of competition vehicles, according the Progressive Automotive X-Prize website. Teams must submit their cars to on-the-ground challenges for the purpose of shaking out problem areas and preparing their vehicles for the knockout qualifying stage that follows, all without risk of elimination by the judges. Vehicles will be tested on braking speed, lane change ability, acceleration and refueling/recharging time, among other elements.
The WWU X-Prize team will be blogging and tweeting from the event, too. Check out the team's blog at http://wwuxprize.blogspot.com/, and follow them on Twitter at http://twitter.com/WWUXPRIZETEAM. Also, check out the team's Facebook page at http://www.facebook.com/pages/WWU-X-Prize-Team/193528425235.
Western Washington University faculty member Arunas Oslapas, a professor of engineering technology, made this video of the ReMade project in Lithuania during his sabbatical fall quarter. Oslapas' 28 Lithuanian students made products from trash in the capital city of Vilnius and sold them in a design boutique called The Hotel of Things. More than 200 people went to the opening night, and it was picked up by national television.
Western Washington University Web developer and graphic designer Rochelle Parry, an avid riverboarder, aims to get faculty, staff and students involved in riverboarding through the WWU Outdoor Center. Riverboarding is a sport in which participants cruise through river rapids on a small body board.
A weekend excursion has been set up through the Outdoor Center for the first weekend in June. The weekend trip will include rafting as well. For specific information, contact the WWU Outdoor Center at http://outdoor.as.wwu.edu/.
Most of the video depicts a class IV section of river. The Outdoor Center class will be held on a class II-III run, with an opportunity at the put-in for some training and demonstration. Which river is chosen for any OC excursions will be determined by what is flowing the best on the given date.
Two short films by Western Washington University Associate Professor of Industrial Design Jason Morris will be shown at the Northwest Projections Film Festival occurring Friday through Sunday, April 16-18, at the Pickford Cinema in Bellingham.
One of Morris’ films, “Form Function,” shows how the industrial design creative process starts with an abstract sculpture and ends with a functional object. The film features the Western Washington University Industrial Design class of 2010.
The second film, made by Morris and Fairhaven student Ryan Christoffersen, is titled “The Tree Was Here,” and is about tree-ring science. It features the work of graduate student Chris Robertson of WWU's Environmental Studies Dendrochronology lab.
“To have my films selected is an honor among the local filmmaking community,” Morris said. “I have been concentrating on improving my skills and craft in making films so that I can continue to make movies about industrial design.”
Some past works from Jason Morris are available on the Western Industrial Design YouTube page at https://www.youtube.com/user/WesternID.
For more information, contact Morris at (360) 650-2514 or jason.morris@wwu.edu. Information about the Northwest Projections Film Festival is available at http://www.pickfordfilmcenter.org/page/NW-Projections.aspx.
Western Washington University President Bruce Shepard appeared on TVW Thursday evening on the show "Inside Olympia." Shepard recently was interviewed by host Austin Jenkins for the show.
In addition, Bill Lyne, a professor of English at WWU, also was interviewed for another segment in the same program for his role as a faculty member and as the president of the United Faculty of Washington State. A third guest on the show is Mike Bogatay, from the Washington Student Association.
The TVW interviews focus on the state of Washington's cuts to higher education and on the impacts to the state. To view the TVW program online, visit http://www.tvw.org/index.cfm?bhcp=1. The show will be re-aired on television at 11 a.m. on Saturday and at 11 a.m. and 6 p.m. on Sunday.
Western Washington University students involved in the Progressive Automotive X Prize competition have been furiously preparing for the kickoff of the competition, which is set to take place in late April. The first stage of the competition, the Shakedown Stage, is set for April 26 to May 7 at Michigan International Speedway in Brooklyn, Mich.
The purpose of this first stage, according to information from the competition, is to conduct safety inspections and on-track dynamic safety evaluations of competition vehicles. Teams must submit their cars to on-the-ground challenges for the purpose of shaking out problem areas and preparing their vehicles for the Knockout Qualifying Stage that follows, all without risk of elimination by the judges. Vehicles will be tested on braking speed, lane change ability, acceleration and refueling/recharging time, among other elements.
To meet the requirements to date, students and faculty members from WWU's Vehicle Research Institute put more than 100 miles on their car this past weekend, conducting numerous vehicle tests in the process. This is raw video from that event.
In the X Prize competition, $10 million in prizes will be awarded in September to the teams that win a rigorous stage competition for clean, production-capable vehicles that exceed 100 MPG energy equivalent (MPGe). More information on the competition is available at http://auto.xprize.org/.
The video was shot and produced by University Communications intern Jon Bergman. Be sure to check out part 1 of this video, available here.
Western Washington University students involved in the Progressive Automotive X Prize competition have been furiously preparing for the kickoff of the competition, which is set to take place in late April. The first stage of the competition, the Shakedown Stage, is set for April 26 to May 7 at Michigan International Speedway in Brooklyn, Mich.
The purpose of this first stage, according to information from the competition, is to conduct safety inspections and on-track dynamic safety evaluations of competition vehicles. Teams must submit their cars to on-the-ground challenges for the purpose of shaking out problem areas and preparing their vehicles for the Knockout Qualifying Stage that follows, all without risk of elimination by the judges. Vehicles will be tested on braking speed, lane change ability, acceleration and refueling/recharging time, among other elements.
To meet the requirements to date, students and faculty members from WWU's Vehicle Research Institute put more than 100 miles on their car this past weekend, conducting numerous vehicle tests in the process. This is raw video from that event.
In the X Prize competition, $10 million in prizes will be awarded in September to the teams that win a rigorous stage competition for clean, production-capable vehicles that exceed 100 MPG energy equivalent (MPGe). More information on the competition is available at http://auto.xprize.org/.
The video was shot and produced by University Communications intern Jon Bergman. Be sure to check out part 2 of this video, available here.
This video was made for the City of Bellingham by 2009 Fairhaven alumnus Chris Koser, who works as a director of photography for Hand Crank Films in town. The video was created as an invitation to Google Fiber for Communities.
The video features lots of community members, and the main actress (the little girl) is Meixing Rain, daughter of another Fairhaven graduate, Jordan Rain (2009), also known as Yogoman.
For more information on Google Fiber for Communities, visit http://www.cob.org/issues/google.aspx.