Latest news releases from the WWU Office of University Communications
Contact: Andy Bunn, Western Washington University associate professor of Environmental Science at (360) 650-4252 or andy.bunn@wwu.edu
BELLINGHAM – Western Washington University Associate Professor of Environmental Science Andy Bunn will take two students to the Siberian Arctic this summer as part of The Polaris Project, an international research project that started in 2008 to look at how global climate change is affecting the Arctic.
Dusk on the Siberian tundra's Kolmya...Contact: Rachel Severson, Western Washington University Department of Psychology, at (360) 650-3539 or Rachel.Severson@wwu.edu
BELLINGHAM – Rachel Severson, a developmental psychologist at Western Washington University, will present “Growing Up Green: What Does Time in Nature Do for Your Child?” as part of Western’s Department of Psychology Family Academy outreach lecture series at 6 p.m. on May 30 at Brandywine Kitchen at 1317 Commercial St. in downtown Bellingham.
This...
Contact: Keith Russell, Western Washington University professor of Physical Education, Health and Recreation, (360) 650-3529, keith.russell@wwu.edu
BELLINGHAM – A motivational speaker, Xerxes Whitney will present “Busting Through Your Challenges: Don’t Fight it. Embrace It” at 7 p.m. on Monday, May 20 in Miller Hall room 138 on Western Washington University’s campus.
The presentation is free and open to the public, and is sponsored by Western’s Physical Education, Health and...
Contact: Keith Russell, Western Washington University professor of Physical Education, Health and Recreation, (360) 650-3529, keith.russell@wwu.edu
BELLINGHAM – A motivational speaker, Xerxes Whitney will present “Busting Through Your Challenges: Don’t Fight it. Embrace It” at 7 p.m. on Monday, May 20 in Miller Hall room 138 on Western Washington University’s campus.
The presentation is free and open to the public, and is sponsored by Western’s Physical Education, Health and...
Contact: Seth Vidana, WWU Office of Sustainability, (360) 650-2491; seth.vidana@wwu.edu
BELLINGHAM – Western Washington University is again on the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s list of the nation’s top 20 green energy purchasers in higher education.
Western, which is 19th on the EPA list, annually offsets 100 percent of its electrical consumption from green sources...
Contact: Paul Madison, Sports Information Office, 360-650-3108, paul.madison@wwu.edu; or Paul Cocke, Office of Communications and Marketing, 360-650-3350, paul.cocke@wwu.edu
BELLINGHAM -- After more than four decades as a ground-breaking director of athletics and women’s basketball coach at Western Washington University, Lynda Goodrich announced her retirement Mon., May 6.
“Under Lynda Goodrich’s guidance, WWU Athletics has enjoyed tremendous...
Contact: Bertil van Boer, Western Washington University professor of Music, at (360) 650-2282 or Bertil.VanBoer@wwu.edu
BELLINGHAM – Western Washington University’s Department of Music will present a concert by the instrument group “Collegium Musicum” at 8 p.m. on May 11 in Western’s Performing Arts Center Concert Hall.
The concert is free and open to the public.
The Collegium Musicum plays music from the Medieval period through...
Contact: Stella Hua, Western Washington University associate professor of Manufacturing and Supply Chain Management, stella.hua@wwu.edu
BELLINGHAM – Western Washington University students won first place in the Milgard Invitational Case Competition on Social Responsibility at University of Washington (Tacoma) on Friday, April 19.
Each team had 72 hours to research and analyze the Nordstrom Corporate Social Responsibility case before presenting their recommendations to a panel...
Contacts: Cyndie Shepard, Compass 2 Campus director, (360) 650-3093 or cyndie.shepard@wwu.edu; or Brad Hilliard, State Farm Neighborhood Assist, (503) 463-3893
BELLINGHAM – Three thousand programs across the country competed, 200 were chosen and the public determined the top 40. And Western Washington University’s Compass 2 Campus (C2C) youth mentoring program was declared a $25,000 winner in State Farm Neighborhood Assist™.
State Farm’s Neighborhood Assist is a youth-...
Contact: Jennifer Seltz, Western Washington University assistant professor of History, Jennifer.seltz@wwu.edu, (360) 650-2510
BELLINGHAM – Ari Kelman, an associate professor of History at the University of California (Davis), will present “A Misplaced Massacre: Struggling Over the Memory of Sand Creek” at 4 p.m. on Thursday, May 9 in the Communications Facility room 110 on Western Washington University’s campus.
The presentation is free and open to the public, and is hosted by...
