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Bruce Shepard, president of Western Washington University, testified before the state Senate Higher Education & Workforce Development Committee on Wednesday, Jan. 20, regarding state funding for higher education.
The presidents of the state's other instututions of higher learning, along with a number of students, also testified. Testimony from Jamie Marine, the WWU Associated Students legislative liason, is available here. To view the full video, click here to watch it on the TVW Web site.
Jamie Marine, the Associated Students legislative liason at Western Washington University, testified on Wednesday, Jan. 20, before the state Senate Higher Education & Workforce Development Committee in Oympia regarding state funding for higher education.
A number of other students, along with the presidents of the state's other instututions of higher learning, also testified. To view the full video, click here.
Evan Tucker, a production manager from Northwest Playwrights Alliance, which co-sponsors the WWU Theatre Ambassador's tour, appeared on Q13 Fox recently just before the tour opened with three full-house shows at the New City Theatre in Seattle.
Tucker briefly talks about the WWU program toward the end of the video.
A drive test of the Viking 40, Jan. 16, 2010.
A test of the front crash structure support box, Jan. 16, 2010.
Western is looking for hard-working students who are focused on building successful lives and careers for themselves and strong futures for their families and communities. This competition is a creative way for incoming students to help pay for college and is not just available to those with outstanding grades and test scores, but to any student willing to think outside the box.
The Why Western? Video Scholarship Contest allows freshman applicants to introduce themselves to the scholarship committee and showcase their talents beyond the traditional scholarship applications, transcripts, and essays.
To view videos submitted so far, visit http://www.youtube.com/whywestern. More information on the contest is available at http://admissions.wwu.edu/whywestern/.
Scientists funded by the National Science Foundation and NOAA have recorded the deepest erupting volcano yet discovered -- West Mata Volcano -- describing high-definition video of the undersea eruption as "spectacular."
"For the first time we have been able to examine, up close, the way ocean islands and submarine volcanoes are born," said Barbara Ransom, program director in NSF's Division of Ocean Sciences. "The unusual primitive compositions of the West Mata eruption lavas have much to tell us."
The volcanic eruption, discovered in May, is nearly 4,000 feet below the surface of the Pacific Ocean, in an area bounded by Fiji, Tonga and Samoa.
Western Washington University is a participant in this research. For more information, visit https://www.nsf.gov/news/news_summ.jsp?org=NSF&cntn_id=116098.
Margaret Stock is an attorney admitted in Alaska; a lieutenant colonel in the Military Police Corps, U.S. Army Reserve; and an associate professor assigned to the Department of Social Sciences, U.S. Military Academy, West Point, N.Y. Stock spoke at Fairhaven College of Interdisciplinary Studies at WWU on Wednesday, Nov. 18, 2009, as part of the World Issues Forum.
After Sept. 11, 2001, the United States implemented sweeping changes in its immigration policies in an effort to prevent future terrorist attacks on U.S. soil. Some of these immigration policy changes have enhanced U.S. national security, while others, ironically, have undermined it. What key post-9/11 changes in immigration policy have been effective, and which ones have not? How should we gauge the effectiveness of national-security related immigration policies? What future changes to U.S. immigration policies will best serve U.S. national security?
Marjorie Faulstich Orellana, professor and director of faculty for the Teacher Education Program at UCLA, presents "Immigrant Youth's Contributions to Families and Society as Language and Culture Brokers" from noon to 1:20 p.m. Nov. 4 in the Fairhaven College Auditorium as part of the World Issues Forum.
Orellana's description of her talk:
When we consider the relative costs and contributions of immigrants to U.S. society, the general assumption is that adults make contributions, while children are only a drain: they "take" from the educational and health systems without giving anything back. This is an assumption that bears reconsideration. In this talk I show how society benefits from the largely invisible work and unremun- erated that the children of immigrants do as language and culture brokers. I argue that this is part of the labor cost equation that should be contemplated in this era of global economic restructuring. Using illustrations from ethnographic data in three immigrant communities over a decade, I show children at work in a variety of contexts and discuss how children experience their work.
Did you miss this event in November? Check out the video online, courtesy of Fairhaven College of Interdisciplinary Studies and WWU Video Services.
Malalai Joya, Afghan woman activist and suspended parliamentarian, spoke at Western Washington University on Nov. 12, 2009.
Joya, who was the youngest member of the Afghan Parliament elected in the 2005 elections, was subsequently suspended from parliament for labeling it full of warlords. Her memoir,"A Woman Among Warlords," provides a true picture of young Afghans going through the occupation, the troubles of refugee camps and the feelings of these people towards those warlords who are once again ruling and not giving chance to the new generation to come forward and control their destiny.
Video and sound by Western Washington University Video Services staff.