News releases

Latest news releases from the WWU Office of University Communications

04 15 13

Contact:  Austin Huang, Western Washington University honorary affiliate music professor and director of the Chinese Culture Festival, Austin.Huang@wwu.edu 

BELLINGHAM – Western Washington University Professor of Music Roger Briggs will conduct “A Colorful Musical Journey” at 7 p.m. Sunday, April 21, at Seattle’s Benaroya Hall.

The multicultural symphonic concert will be presented by the Pacific Northwest Cultural Exchange Council, and will feature the Xin Xing symphony...

04 15 13

Contact:  Janet Braun, Western Washington University’s Society of Manufacturing Engineers adviser, at (360) 650-3447 or janet.braun@wwu.edu

BELLINGHAM – Western Washington University students received second place in the Society of Manufacturing Engineers Manufacturing Challenge on March 19 in Long Beach, Calif.

The team consisted of 15 members, who worked to create a manufacturing process for an item.  This year the team created a composite tackle box for fishing flies that...

04 15 13

Contact:  Janet Braun, Western Washington University’s Society of Manufacturing Engineers adviser, at (360) 650-3447 or janet.braun@wwu.edu

BELLINGHAM – Western Washington University students received second place in the Society of Manufacturing Engineers Manufacturing Challenge on March 19 in Long Beach, Calif.

The team consisted of 15 members, who worked to create a manufacturing process for an item.  This year the team created a composite tackle box for fishing flies that...

04 15 13

Contact:  Janet Braun, Western Washington University’s Society of Manufacturing Engineers adviser, at (360) 650-3447 or janet.braun@wwu.edu

BELLINGHAM – Western Washington University students received second place in the Society of Manufacturing Engineers Manufacturing Challenge on March 19 in Long Beach, Calif.

The team consisted of 15 members, who worked to create a manufacturing process for an item.  This year the team created a composite tackle box for fishing flies that...

04 12 13

Contact:  Dawn Dietrich, director, Western Reads, at (360) 650-3225 or Dawn.Dietrich@wwu.edu

BELLINGHAM — Western Reads, a campus-wide reading program at Western Washington University, has chosen “Early Warming:  Crisis and Response in the Climate-Changed North,” by Nancy Lord, as its 2013-14 reading selection.

The book will be given to all incoming Western freshmen and will be available for sale at the Western Associated Students Bookstore.  Programming related to the book...

04 12 13

BELLINGHAM – Ruth Weiner will present “Nuclear Power, Environmental and Health Effects, and Reactor Accidents” as part of Western Washington University’s Huxley College of the Environment Speaker Series at 4 p.m. on Thursday, April 18 in the Biology Building Room 212 on Western’s campus.

The presentation is free and open to the public.

Weiner’s presentation will include a discussion of ionizing radiation, nuclear power generation, and the causes and effects of the best-known...

04 12 13

Contact: Courtney Hiatt, Western Washington University CFPA Marketing, (360) 650-2829, Courtney.Hiatt@wwu.edu

BELLINGHAM ­– Western Washington University’s Department of Theatre and Dance will present its annual dance faculty concert on April 18-21 in Western’s Performing Arts Center (PAC) Mainstage Theater.

The concert will feature three world premieres by Western’s Dance Program faculty members Penny Hutchinson, Pam Kuntz, and Rick Merrill, as well as Liz Gerring Dance...

04 11 13

Contact: Chris Roselli, Western Washington University Alumni Association, (360) 650-6832; Chris.Roselli@wwu.edu

BELLINGHAM – Western Washington University will host its fourth annual Back 2 Bellingham reunion weekend for alumni, families, students, faculty, staff and community, Friday to Sunday, May 17-19.

“I’ve always believed it’s not higher education unless it’s for a higher purpose and this year’s Back 2 Bellingham showcases that by including LivFest, EndFair, Relay for...

04 10 13

Contacts: Mark Bagley, Western Washington University Foundation, at (360) 650-3612 or mark.bagley@wwu.edu; or John Dlouhy, director of Special Events, at (360) 650-3629 or special.events@wwu.edu  

BELLINGHAM – Jim Sinegal, the co-founder, director and retired president and chief executive officer of Costco, will be the keynote speaker at the 16th Annual Western Washington University Business Forum on Friday, April 26, at the Seattle Sheraton.

Prior to co-founding Costco – the...

04 10 13

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

BELLINGHAM – Andy Bunn, an associate professor of Environmental Sciences and the director of Western Washington University’s Institute for Energy Studies, will present  “Could the United States Rely on Renewable Energy Alone?” at 4 p.m. on Thursday, April 11, in the Biology building 212 on Western’s campus.

The event is free, open to the public and is part of Western’s Huxley College of...