A team of students from Western Washington University is among the dozen remaining entrants in the Progressive Insurance Automotive X Prize competition, which is taking place through August in Detroit.
The team, from WWU's Vehicle Research Institute, has successfully completed the rigorous set of efficiency, safety, technical and range tests set before it in the past two weeks and will...
The Western Washington University X Prize team has officially passed all of the tests in the knockout round of the Progressive Insurance Automotive X Prize competition, WWU faculty team leader Eric Leonhardt announced this morning. The team will advance to the finals round of the competition, which begins July 19 at Michigan International Speedway in Detroit.
"I do not know how...
When the ancestors of today’s Native Americans first crossed the Bering Sea land bridge to North America thousands of years ago, they brought a root dialect that formed the basis of more than 45 languages to follow in the years to come, according to a new book by Western Washington University researcher Edward Vajda, director of WWU's Center for East Asian Studies.
Moreover, the...
Paced by a sixth straight national title in women's rowing and fourth and eighth place national finishes, respectively, by the men's and women's cross country teams, Western Washington University placed sixth nationally among 310 NCAA Division II schools in the final 2009-10 Learfield Sports Directors' Cup standings released Wednesday.
It is the Vikings' highest placing in school...
Singer/songwriter Vicci Martinez will kick off the summer 2010 series of free concerts on the Western Washington University campus. The Summer Noon Concert series, put on by WWU's Associated Students, brings various acts to Western for free noon concerts on the Performing Arts Center plaza.
In the event of rain, the concerts will take place indoors in the Viking Union Multipurpose Room...
A bright copper roof has been going up atop Miller Hall at Western Washington University this week. The building, originally built in the 1940s and then added on to in the 1960s, is undergoing a complete renovation.
The two-phase project is scheduled to take approximately two years and began with the 1960s wing last summer. Occupants from the 1960s wing were moved into the 1940s wing...
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...
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...
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.
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...
