Cristin Lindsay, vice president of Prize Operations at the X Prize Foundation, just posted a handful of awesome photos online of the Western Washington University team at the Progressive Insurance Automotive X Prize competition in Detroit.

The team from WWU's Vehicle Research Institute is racing the Viking 45 in the competition. For more information, visit http://www.progressiveautoxprize.org/.

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The Faculty & Staff Wellness Program at Western Washington University provides water aerobics as a way for WWU faculty and staff to exercise in a low-resistance environment. For more information on the program, visit http://www.acadweb.wwu.edu/hr/wellness/.

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Former Washington Secretary of State Ralph Munro ('66) was the keynote speaker at the second ceremony of three Spring Commencement ceremonies at Western Washington University on June 12, 2010.

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Kevin Raymond, a former member of the Board of Trustees at Western Washington University, speaks at the third WWU commencement ceremony on June 12, 2010, in Carver Gymnasium.

Raymond, director of external affairs for two green technology companies, is a graduate of WWU's Huxley College of the Environment.

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Washington state Gov. Chris Gregoire speaks during the first ceremony of Western Washington University's commencement on June 12, 2010, in Carver Gymnasium on campus.

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Yong-Taek Kim, a visiting assistant professor of Japanese at Western Washington University, presents “Linguistic Descriptions of the Same Event in Japanese, Korean, Chinese and English.”

As a part of Japan Week, Kim compares grammar constructions in Japanese, Korean, Chinese and English to provide a conceptual framework in understanding how speakers of different languages perceive the same situation and how they encode it linguistically.

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Students in the Industrial Design program at Western Washington University have created a number of design concepts using Pranav Mistry's SixthSense technology.

The concept shown here is designed specifically for search and rescue operations by Dieter Amick and is one of 13 projects done in the Junior ID studio. For more designs, visit Industrial Design's channel on YouTube.

 

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More than 100 hundred Western Washington University student-athletes worked alongside supervisors from the Bellingham Parks and Recreation Department on Saturday, June 5, to prepare an area just off the Fairhaven Parkway for salmon habitat.

The volunteer project was the brainchild of Western’s Student-Athlete Advisory Committee, which organized the community service work party. The idea was developed from student-athlete focus groups and SAAC meetings.

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Western Washington University celebrated its third annual “It’s Your Arboretum Day” on Saturday, June 5, at the Outdoor Learning Center, located on the Huntoon Trail in the western part of the Sehome Arboretum adjoining WWU’s campus.

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