News releases

Latest news releases from the WWU Office of University Communications

02 22 12

Contact: Sylvia Tag, Western Washington University Libraries, at Sylvia.Tag@wwu.edu

BELLINGHAM – Western Washington University will host award-winning authors and illustrators at the ninth annual Western Children’s Literature Conference at 9 a.m. on Saturday, Feb. 25, in the Performing Arts Center Concert Hall on the Western campus.

This event has become an annual tradition for many, where teachers and librarians, readers and writers gather to celebrate and...

02 22 12

Contact: Lindsay Bureaux, Western Washington University Extended Education, at Lindsay.Bureaux@wwu.edu or (360) 650-7244

BELLINGHAM – Western Washington University’s College of Business and Economics will offer an entrepreneurship methods course to the general public beginning Tuesday, Mar. 27; you don’t need to be enrolled in a degree program at Western to participate.

MGMT 497L: Lean Startup & Entrepreneurship Methods, is the first of its kind at...

02 22 12

Contact: Lindsay Bureaux, Western Washington University Extended Education, at Lindsay.Bureaux@wwu.edu or (360) 650-7244

BELLINGHAM – Western Washington University’s College of Business and Economics will offer an entrepreneurship methods course to the general public beginning Tuesday, Mar. 27; you don’t need to be enrolled in a degree program at Western to participate.

MGMT 497L: Lean Startup...

02 22 12

Contact: Lindsay Bureaux, Western Washington University Extended Education, at Lindsay.Bureaux@wwu.edu or (360) 650-7244

BELLINGHAM – Western Washington University’s College of Business and Economics will offer an entrepreneurship methods course to the general public beginning Tuesday, Mar. 27; you don’t need to be enrolled in a degree program at Western to participate.

MGMT 497L: Lean Startup...

02 22 12

Contact: Western Washington University’s Huxley College of the Environment at (360) 650-3520.

BELLINGHAM – Stoney Bird and Rick Dubrow, the respective chair and vice chair of the No Coal Political Action Committee, will present "Our Right to Decide! Why We Need the Bellingham Community Bill of Rights to Stop the Coal Trains" as part of Western Washington University’s Huxley College of the Environment Speaker Series at noon on Friday, Feb. 24 in Academic...

02 15 12

Contact: Shirley Osterhaus, Western Washington University’s Fairhaven College of Interdisciplinary Studies coordinator, (360) 650-2309 or shirley.osterhaus@wwu.edu.

BELLINGHAM – Canadian author Gary Geddes will present “How Our Way of Life is Killing Africans” as part of Western Washington University’s Fairhaven College World Issues Forum at noon on Wednesday, Feb. 22 in the Fairhaven College Auditorium on the Western campus.

The presentation is free and open to...

02 15 12

Contact: Western Washington University’s Huxley College of the Environment at (360) 650-3520.

BELLINGHAM – John All, associate professor at Western Kentucky University, will present "An Integrated Assessment of Recent Environmental Changes in the Cordillera Blanca Mountains of Peru" as part of Western Washington University’s Huxley College of the Environment Speaker Series at 3 p.m. on Friday, Feb. 17 in Academic West room 304 on the Western campus....

02 15 12

Contact: Western Washington University’s Huxley College of the Environment at (360) 650-3520.

BELLINGHAM – John All, associate professor at Western Kentucky University, will present "An Integrated Assessment of Recent Environmental Changes in the Cordillera Blanca Mountains of Peru" as part of Western Washington University’s Huxley College of the Environment Speaker Series at 3 p.m. on Friday, Feb. 17 in Academic West room 304 on the Western campus....

02 15 12

Contact: Jennifer Shelton, director, Western Washington University’s Small Business Development Center, at jennifer.shelton@wwu.edu or (360) 778-1762.

BELLINGHAM – Western Washington University’s Small Business Development Center will co-host the “Hot100BizBook Club” from 10 a.m.to noon on Wednesday, Feb. 22 in the Fireside Room of the Bellingham Public Library Fairhaven Branch.

This event is free and open to the public.

The purpose of the book club is to  provide...

02 15 12

Contact: Craig Dunn, associate professor and associate dean for Graduate Programs, at craig.dunn@wwu.edu or (360) 650-2593                        

BELLINGHAM – Executive MBA students from Lanzhou University’s School of Management in Lanzhou, China are visiting Western Washington University’s Master of Business Administration program Feb. 16-17 as part of a United States study tour.

The...