Latest news releases from the WWU Office of University Communications
Contact: Catharine Vader, Prevention and Wellness Services; at (360) 650-7557 or Catharine.Vader@wwu.edu
BELLINGHAM - The Puget Sound Blood Center will return to Western Washington University to conduct a blood drive from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Oct. 19, 20, and 21.
The donation location will be at the Viking Union 565 and also at the Mini Mobile at Red Square near the Humanities Building.
Volunteer donors can aid as many as three patients with...
Contact: Sarah Clark-Langager, Director of the Western Gallery, (360) 650-3963, Sarah.ClarkLangager@wwu.edu
Dogon granary door, from MaliBELLINGHAM – The Western Gallery at Western Washingoton University will present “Spellbinding Beauty: Selections from the Lehmann African Art Collection” from Oct. 4 through Nov. 24.
The exhibition is divided into three areas emphasizing devotional, honorary, and utilitarian objects. Admission is free and open to the public.
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Contact: Sarah Clark-Langager, director of the Western Gallery, (360) 650-3963, Sarah.ClarkLangager@wwu.edu
Digital rendering of Lead Pencil Studio's "Non-Sign II"BELLINGHAM – Annie Han and Daniel Mihalyo from the Seattle-based Lead Pencil Studio will present a lecture entitled “Non-Sign II and other Apertures” at 4 p.m. on Thursday, Oct.28 in the Old Main Theater on Western’s campus.
The lecture is free and open to the public.
Recipients of numerous...
Contact: Bruce Hamilton, associate professor of Music and director of the Western Washington University Electroacoustic Music Studio, (360) 650-3711 or Bruce.Hamilton@wwu.edu
BELLINGHAM – The Western Washington University Department of Music and Sound Culture will present “Minifest,” a celebration of musical miniatures spanning diverse styles and genres, Nov. 6 and 7 on Western’s campus.
The concert will feature music-video presentations from around the globe and live...
Contact: Michael Etnier, Western Washington University Department of Anthropology research associate, at Michael.Etnier@wwu.edu
BELLINGHAM – Michael Etnier, an Anthropology research associate at Western Washington University, has received $126,000 in research funds through a Cooperative Agreement with the National Park Service to study archaeological samples and climate change in southwest Alaska.
Etnier will study archaeofaunas — samples of shells and animal bones — to try...
Contact: WWU Department of Music, (360) 650-3130
BELLINGHAM – Western Washington University’s Sanford Piano Series will begin its 2010-2011 season with a concert featuring Di Wu at 7:30 p.m. on Friday, Oct. 22 in the Performing Arts Center (PAC) Concert Hall.
The evening program will feature works by Debussy, Ravel and Gounod-Liszt.
Praised in “The Wall Street Journal” as a “musically mature and sensitive pianist,” Chinese-born Di Wu has wowed audiences...
Contact: Craig Tyran, WWU College of Business and Economics associate dean and director of WWU’s Center for Excellence in Management Education, (360) 650-2207; craig.tyran@wwu.edu
BELLINGHAM – Western Washington University’s College of Business and Economics will host Debbie Ahl for its Strategic Management Executive Strategy Speaker Series from 3-4 p.m. on Friday, Oct.15 in Communications Building Room 120 (CF120).
The presentation is free and open to the public.
Ahl...
Contact: Jackie Caplan-Auerbach, professor of Geology; at 360-650-4153 or Jackie@geol.wwu.edu
BELLINGHAM – Western Washington University Geology students will give a presentation on their recent research trip to the Lo’ihi seamount, Hawaii’s youngest submarine volcano, at noon on Friday, Oct. 8, in Environmental Sciences Room 100.
Top: Lava from the Kilauea volcano pours into the sea as the research ship makes its way up the Hawaiian island chain to the Lo'ihi seamount....
Contact: Jackie Caplan-Auerbach, professor of Geology; at 360-650-4153 or Jackie@geol.wwu.edu
BELLINGHAM – Western Washington University Geology students will give a presentation on their recent research trip to the Lo’ihi seamount, Hawaii’s youngest submarine volcano, at noon on Friday, Oct. 8, in Environmental Sciences Room 100.
Top: Lava from the Kilauea volcano pours into the sea as the research ship makes its way up the Hawaiian island chain to the Lo'ihi seamount....
The Western Washington University community gathered at Red Square Wednesday evening to grieve together and to provide support to each other after a body found near the Bellingham waterfront was identified by the Bellingham Police Department as missing freshman Dwight Clark, who has been missing since Sept. 26.
A link is available below to remarks at today’s gathering by Western President Bruce Shepard, Associated Students President Colin Watrin and Eileen Coughlin, vice president...
