The Puget Sound Blood Center is on the Western Washington University to conduct a blood drive from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. through today, April 22.

The donation locations are at the Viking Union 565 and at the Mini Mobile on Red Square near the Humanities Building.

According to Catherine Vader from WWU's Prevention & Wellness Services, 131 donations were given on campus Tuesday, April 20, and 157 donations were recorded April 21.

Every 20 days, more regular than clockwork because her life depends on it, Gail Wilder slips through the doors of PeaceHealth Medical Group’s Center for Oncology and Infusion Services in Bellingham.

She’s been doing it for eight years. For two and a half hours every three weeks, Wilder, 59, watches and waits as life-giving gamma globulins enter her bloodstream, giving her immune system a temporary but oh-so-important boost. It could be the difference between life and death for Wilder, who has been told that her next bout with pneumonia will probably be her last.

The Puget Sound Blood Center will return to Western Washington University to conduct a blood drive from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. through April 22.

The donation locations will be at the Viking Union 565 and at the Mini Mobile on Red Square near the Humanities Building.

Volunteer donors can aid as many as three patients with only one pint of blood, and it takes 900 donors a day to fill the needed supply in the Puget Sound region alone. The success of the WWU Quarterly Blood Drive ranks Western as one of the largest donor groups in the Puget Sound region.

A total of 197 blood donors were registered during the first day of the Puget Sound Blood Center's quarterly blood drive on the Western Washington University campus Jan. 26. The drive continues today and tomorrow, Jan. 27 and 28, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. The donation locations will be in Viking Union Room 565 and also at the mobile bus in Red Square near the Humanities Building.

The Puget Sound Blood Center will be returning to Western Washington University to conduct a blood drive from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Jan 26, 27 and 28.

The donation location will be in Viking Union Room 565 and also at the Mini Mobile bus in Red Square near the Humanities Building.

Volunteer donors can aid as many as three patients with only one pint of blood, and it takes 900 donors a day to fill the needed supply in the Puget Sound region alone. The success of the campus quarterly blood drive ranks Western as one of the largest donor groups in the Puget Sound region.

The Puget Sound Blood Center will be on campus from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. today in Red Square.

For more information, visit the Puget Sound Blood Center's Web site at http://www.psbc.org/home/index.htm.

The Puget Sound Blood Center's quarterly blood drive at Western Washington University Oct. 22 to 24 was  a huge success, the center's Carol Rondello announced last week. During the drive, the center registered 480 donors and collected 370 units of blood., enough to benefit up to 1,110 patients.

Each weekday, Rondello said, 900 people must donate blood to meet the needs of patients in hospitals in the western Washington region. The blood drive at provided more than 17 percent of all the blood needed the following day in hospitals throughout western Washington.

Western Washington University students describe why they give blood during the regular blood drives on the WWU campus.

The fall quarter blood drive is going on through Thursday on the WWU campus.

Filmed and produced by Adam Cochran | WWU intern

The Puget Sound Blood Center will return to Western Washington University to conduct a blood drive from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Tuesday through Thursday, Oct. 20-22.

The donation location will be at the Viking Union 565, and also at the Mini Mobile at Red Square, near the Humanities Building.