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Festivities planned for Martin Luther King Jr. Day | The Bellingham Herald
1.14.10
In the media
CSL | holidays | students | students
Bellingham honors the Georgia-born clergyman and civil rights leader, born Jan. 15, 1929, with several events. • The Martin Luther King Jr. Community Gospel Choir presents a concert and slide show at 12:30 p.m. Thursday, Jan. 14, at Whatcom Museum's Old City Hall Building, 121 Prospect St. Admission is $3 general, free for museum members. For details, call 778-8939 or visit whatcommuseum.org. • Western Washington University's Center for Service Learning and Western's Associated Students Bookstore sponsor a Read-In and Book Drive for children of all ages on Monday, Jan.
Liz Mogford (Sociology) gets $5,000 to examine the cross-cultural conceptions of health and well being in rural Kenya
1.13.10
Faculty publication
Center for Service-Learning | Critical Junctures Institute | CSL | faculty | funding | grants | Liz Mogford | research | sociology

Liz Mogford (Sociology) recently was awarded a $5,000 Summer Research Grant from Research and Sponsored Programs to examine the cross-cultural conceptions of health and well being by extending the qualitative health mapping tool developed by WWU's Critical Junctures Institute to a rural Maasai village site in Kenya. Mogford is a fellow with the Center for Service-Learning's International Faculty Fellows Program and will be traveling to Kenya with other WWU faculty members and students this summer.
WWU students will read to children in honor of Martin Luther King Jr. Day of Service
1.11.10
Feature
CSL | holidays | service | students

Every year in honor of Martin Luther King Jr. Day, local children gather at Village Books to hear stories about tolerance, the civil rights movement and cultures from around the world. The annual Martin Luther King Jr. Day Read-In and Book Drive will take place on Monday, Jan. 18.
Tim Costello (Center for Service-Learning) presents paper at conference in Ottawa
10.22.09
Faculty publication
CSL | presentation | Tim Costello

Tim Costello (Center for Service-Learning) presented a paper titled "Rural Kenya: A Model for International Service-learning through Rich Reciprocal Partnerships" at the 9th International Research Conference on Service-learning and Community Engagement held in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, from Oct. 9 to 12.
Western, Shuksan students work and learn together through CSL program
7.22.09
Feature
CSL | map | students | woodring

The students are scattered throughout the library, sitting in groups of two or three and concentrating hard on the work before them.

At a long bank of computers, Shuksan Middle School students David Trejo and Sumeet Panwar, both 13, squint at their computer screens at a pair of flyers they’re creating to advertise Operation Change, an effort to increase awareness in the community of issues related to homelessness and violence. Western Washington University student Kaelee Berg leans in on occasion to offer advice.