Latest news releases from the WWU Office of University Communications
Contact: Paul Cocke, Director, Office of Communications and Marketing, (360) 650-3350; Paul.Cocke@wwu.edu
BELLINGHAM – Western Washington University plans to test its emergency notification system known as Western Alert at 9:45 a.m. on Friday, April 26.
Western Alert is a group of ways to reach students, faculty and staff with important safety information. The following Western Alert elements will be tested on...
Contact: Seth Vidana, WWU Office of Sustainability, (360) 650-2491
BELLINGHAM – Western Washington University was included in the Princeton Review’s guide saluting the most environmentally responsible "green colleges."
Published April 16, a few days before the April 22 celebration of Earth Day, the Princeton Review's Guide to 322 Green Colleges: 2013 Edition profiles 320 schools in the U.S. and two in Canada that demonstrate notable commitments to sustainability in their...
Contact: Julia Sapin, Western Washington University associate professor of Art History, (360) 650-3670, Julia.Sapin@wwu.edu
BELLINGHAM – The Western Washington University Department of Art will host artist Yuken Teruya for a lecture on Thursday, May 2 at 4 p.m. in Room 120 of the Science, Math and Technology Education building on Western’s campus.
The lecture, titled “Art Watering the Seeds of Social Change,” is free and open to the public.
"Notice-Forest: What...Contact: Trish Skillman, Western Washington University’s Woodring College of Education TESOL program director, at Trish.Skillman@wwu.edu or (360) 650-3336.
BELLINGHAM − Western Washington University’s Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages certificate program will hold an information session on Monday, April 22 in Miller Hall room 139 on Western's campus at 4 p.m., and on Monday, April 29 at 5 p.m. online at www.wwu.edu/tesol.
Community members and college students...
Contact: Paul Horne, director of rugby, pshorne@comcast.net
BELLINGHAM – Western Washington University’s Men’s Rugby Club won the Northwest Collegiate Rugby Conference (NCRC) Championship Saturday, April 13 at Magnuson Park in Seattle, sending the team into the national championship tournament's Sweet 16.
The Vikings defeated Eastern Washington University, the NCRC’s East Division champions, 38-14. The team has a perfect 8-0 record and have outscored their...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
