Western Washington University students Daniel Moser (will graduate with a degree in Chemistry in spring 2010) and Geoff Melly (Biology/Anthropology, fall 2010) and faculty member Gregory O'Neil (Chemistry) attended the American Chemical Society Puget Sound Section Undergraduate Research Symposium at Central Washington University.

The Department of Anthropology at Western Washington University welcomed a delegation from Brunei Darussalam to campus on Saturday, May 1.

Pahin Dato Seri Setia Lim Jock Seng, Brunei minister of foreign affairs, and Dato Yusoff Abd Hamid, ambassador to the United States, made a special trip to WWU with their delegation while passing through Seattle on their way to Washington, D.C. The purpose of the trip was to visit Linda Kimball, professor emerita of anthropology at WWU. Kimball is a noted scholar on Brunei Malay language and culture.

Faculty members from the anthropology, sociology and environmental studies departments are getting together from 5 to 7 p.m. Tuesday, Feb. 16, in Academic Instructional Center West Room 204 to discuss the recent earthquake and ongoing humanitarian situation in Haiti, says Scott Miles, an assistant professor in the Department of Environmental Studies at Western Washington University.