The evolution through the years of a widely respected textbook by Western Washington University’s Brad Smith, dean of WWU’s Huxley College of the Environment, mirrors changes in environmental education from an exciting new field to acceptance of its importance throughout the world.

Smith has for many years been at the forefront of environmental education, which was most recently highlighted by the 13th edition of “Environmental Science: A Study of Interrelationships.”

Tim Costello, director of the Center for Service-Learning at Western Washington University, was awarded a full scholarship to attend the fourth national Equity Summit in Detroit from Nov. 8 to 11. The Equity Summit is a policy summit that brings together leaders from diverse sectors of society to share a vision for strong, sustainable and equitable communities. A delegation of 16 Whatcom County members will be attending with support from the Whatcom Community Foundation.

John Rybczyk, an associate professor in Huxley College of the Environment at Western Washington University, is among the founding members of the Climate Science Consortium, a group of research scientists from federal, state, municipal, tribal, university and non-governmental organizations working in the Skagit basin.

Bertil van Boer (Department of Music) presented an invited paper “Undermining Independence: The English Political and Cultural Views of America during Haydn’s London Sojourns” at the International Haydn Symposium in Eisenstadt, Austria, on Sept. 13, 2011.