Bowdoin College Assistant Professor of History and Environmental Studies Connie Chiang will speak on “Nature Behind Barbed Wire: Environment and the Japanese-American Incarceration” as part of Western Washington University’s Huxley College of the Environment speaker series at 3 p.m., Friday, May 28 at WWU’s Communications Facility room 125.
The event is free and open to the public.
In the wake of Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941, the United States government moved more than 110,000 Japanese Americans from the PacificCoast to 10 relocation centers in the inland West and Arkansas. Chiang’s lecture explores how the environment – typically arid and semi-arid landscapes – shaped Japanese Americans' everyday lives and resistance and the federal government's efforts to confine and assimilate them.
Western Washington University’s Leadership Advantage will host former state Supreme Court Justice Charles Smith from 7-9 p.m., Tuesday, May 25 at the Performing Arts Center (PAC) Main Stage on WWU’s campus.
The event is free and open to the public, but tickets are required; and can be obtained through the PAC box office from 11 a.m.-5 p.m.
Smith will speak on leadership, ethics, and social justice.
Prior the event, Smith will participate in an informal talk-session at 2 p.m. in the Viking Union building room 565. Tickets for the informal talk-session are not required.
Western Washington University’s Paul Piper will present "Information and Knowledge as Commons: The Case of Wikipedia", the fourth installment this academic year in WWU’s Turning Points faculty lecture series, at 5:15 p.m. on Wednesday, March 3, in Communications Facility room 110 on the WWU campus.
Officials with the Ershig Assistive Technology Resource Center in Woodring College of Education at Western Washington University plan to hold a brown-bag lunch discussion at noon Friday, Feb. 12, to learn about assistive technology and support for diverse learning needs at the university.
The lunch will take place in Miller Hall Room 162. For more information, contact Linda Schleef at linda.schleef@wwu.edu or (360) 650-2783.
Western Washington University’s Center for Canadian-American Studies, in participation with multiple on-campus offices and departments, has kicked off Canada Week.
Events will run through Feb. 12, involving Canadian culture, politics, economics and history at Western’s campus. I’ll list more events when the information becomes available, but this is what is scheduled for Tuesday, Feb. 9:
Western Washington University’s Center for Canadian-American Studies, in participation with multiple on-campus offices and departments, has kicked off Canada Week.
Events will run through Feb. 12, involving Canadian culture, politics, economics and history at Western’s campus. I’ll list more events when the information becomes available, but this is what is scheduled for Tuesday, Feb. 9:
If you'd like to learn how to turn your lawn into a food source, or learn how to grow tasty plants you never knew existed, Dave Sansone wants to tell you how.
New aspects of "edible forest gardening" are the subject of his free talk Wednesday, Feb. 10, at Western Washington University. Sansone is the director of Perennial Harvest, a nonprofit outfit.
Question: Can people with "brown thumbs" benefit from your talk?
If you'd like to learn how to turn your lawn into a food source, or learn how to grow tasty plants you never knew existed, Dave Sansone wants to tell you how.
New aspects of "edible forest gardening" are the subject of his free talk Wednesday, Feb. 10, at Western Washington University. Sansone is the director of Perennial Harvest, a nonprofit outfit.
Question: Can people with "brown thumbs" benefit from your talk?
Western Washington University has been selected to host the NCAA Division II West Regional Cross Country Championships for 2010.
The meet is scheduled for Saturday, Nov. 20, at Lake Padden.
Job seekers looking for ways to connect directly with employers are invited to attend Western Washington University's Winter Career Fair from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 11, in the Mac Gym of the Wade King Student Recreation Center.
The event, sponsored by the WWU Career Services Center, is a major recruiting event where students and the general public can meet hiring managers from a broad range of private-sector companies, non-profit organizations and government agencies. Admission to the fair is free.
WSU Athletic Director Jim Sterk was among four inducted into the Western Washington University Athletics Hall of Fame on Feb. 6.
Sterk set a WWU Vikings season record for tackles as a linebacker. He received a bachelor’s degree at WWU in 1980, and earned four letters in football and one in basketball. During the 1977 season, Sterk was a first-team NAIA District One football all-star, team captain and MVP in helping the Vikings to the district championship game.
The induction ceremony took place in Bellingham on the WWU campus.
A benefit dance for Northwest Youth Services will take place Saturday, Feb. 20, at Western Washington University.
Proceeds from the event will support programs serving runaway and homeless youth throughout Whatcom and Skagit counties.
The dance will include refreshments as well as a display of artwork from youth that the organization serves. Music will be provided by DJ Fresh Boogie.
For some, playing in the Olympics would be a lifelong dream.
But who says you can only have one lifelong dream?
Saratoga Springs native Kathleen Kauth, 30, said she is fulfilling another lifelong dream by having moved - the plan is temporarily - to California. The 2006 Olympic women's ice hockey player now lives in the Bay area and takes classes at the University of California at Berkley in solar energy and LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) certification. She started taking classes this past fall semester and will be done around Christmas.
When University of Washington junior Janel Brown talks to younger students about college, she tells them that if they do their part in the classroom, the rest will take care of itself.
The same assurances were made to Brown while she attended Franklin High School in inner-city Seattle.
Students from the University of Washington planned a noon rally Friday at the state Capitol to present petitions calling for lawmakers to protect funding for higher education.
If you've ever been stared at, whether it was because of your physical appearance or any other reason, envision walking into an exhibit in which all the photographs are staring at you.
Kevin M. Connolly, 23, was born without legs and grew up in rural Montana and participated in numerous sports, from rock climbing to skiing.
All his life, he encountered stares from people he met in his travels. He decided to photograph the people who were staring at him, and he now has 32,000 photographs.
Jeffrey Gilliam, a piano professor at Western Washington University, will perform at 7 p.m. Friday at St. Stephen's Episcopal Church in Longview.
Gilliam has taught piano and piano accompanying at Western since 1992. Before that, he taught at The Juilliard School and the University of Michigan. Gilliam also worked on the faculty of the International Menuhin Music Academy in Switzerland for fourteen years.
I gave a talk on health care "reform" today at Western Washington University in Bellingham, Washington to an audience of students, faculty, and community members. The topic of private vs.
Four new members, three of whom won school Athlete of the Year honors and one who is now in charge of a major university athletics program, will be inducted into the Western Washington University Athletics Hall of Fame on Saturday.
Former Nooksack Valley High School and Western Washington University standout Jim Sterk, now the athletic director at Washington State University, will be one of the four inductees.
The ceremony will be held in the Concert Hall of the WWU Performing Arts Center on campus.
Ralph Vernacchia, director of Western Washington University's Center for Performance Excellence, will speak on “Vancouver 2010 and Beyond: the Future of the Olympic Games” at the WWU Retirement Association luncheon at 11:30 a.m. Friday, Feb. 5, at Northwood Hall, 3240 Northwest Ave. Tickets are $13 for members and $16 for non-members. Call (360) 650-9724 for reservations.
Bowdoin College Assistant Professor of History and Environmental Studies Connie Chiang will speak on “Nature Behind Barbed Wire: Environment and the Japanese-American Incarceration” as part of Western Washington University’s Huxley College of the Environment speaker series at 3 p.m., Friday, May 28 at WWU’s Communications Facility room 125.
