Bike to Work and School Day is Friday, May 18.
Tomorrow, pedestrians and cyclists may stop by a local celebration station for a treat and prizes. Station attendants also will applause bikers and walkers as they pass.
Two celebration stations will be set up on the Western Washington Unviersity campus from 6:30 to 10:30 a.m.; one will be in front of the Wade King Student...
Western Washington University’s Department of Theatre and Dance is looking for local dancers and actors to appear in its summer dance performance, “Conventicle of Curiosities.” The department is holding an open audition from 4 to 6 p.m. Friday, May 18, Performing Arts Center Room 16.
The audition is open to students and community members of all levels of ability...
Weightless and untethered in the vastness of outer space, astronaut George “Pinky” Nelson maneuvered toward the errant satellite for the world’s first in-orbit satellite repair.
The date was April 11, 1984, but Nelson’s trip into space had really begun back in 1957 when the Soviets’ Sputnik 1 soared over him and his Illinois farm town. The 7-year-old boy...
It was intended to be the Christmas toy giveaway in the church. Christmas. Church. Cité Soleil. Boy. The nearly naked boy.
In Cité Soleil [site so-lay, Sun City] the poorest slum in Port-au-Prince, the chaotic capital of Haiti, Analiesse Isherwood (’11, Behavioral Neuroscience) came bearing gifts for the Christmas toy giveaway in the church. Boy. She saw the boy on...
"Sherlock Holmes 2: Game of Shadows" will play outdoors Thursday, May 17, in an Associated Students Films event scheduled for 9 p.m. on the Communications Facility lawn.
This event is free for the WWU community.
Cable Griffith, a Seattle-based artist and curator, will present his work in a public lecture at 4 p.m. on Wednesday, May 16, in Communications Facility Room 105 at Western Washington University.
The lecture is sponsored by Western’s Department of Art and is free and open to the public.
Griffith’s paintings, drawings and sculptures are constructed through the...
Western Washington University Associate Professor of Theatre and Dance Rich Brown received the 2012 award for Outstanding Lead Deviser/Director of a Devised Work at the national awards at the Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival on April 21 at the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, D.C.
Brown was honored for directing the devised production, “Us,...
The NCAA Division II national champion Washington University men's basketball team traveled to Olympia on Friday, may 4, to receive congratulations from Washington state Gov. Christine Gregoire.
WWU head coach Brad Jackson presented Gov. Gregoire with a basketball signed by the entire team.
The Vikings became just the second collegiate men's hoop team in state...
Applications for Western Washington University faculty and staff parking permits for the 2012-13 school year will be considered late after 4:30 p.m. Friday, May 11.
Western employees may apply for regular permits (quarterly, academic year or annual), commuter packs and carpool permits...
At 9:45 a.m. Wednesday, May 9, Western will conduct an emergency notification drill of its Western Alert system. Western Alert is a group of ways to reach students, faculty and staff with important information for your safety. Multiple ways to provide information is considered a best practice.
What to Expect. Western Alert elements that will be active on May 9...
