Western Washington University President Bruce Shepard invites all staff and faculty members to the annual breakfast and opening convocation, set to take place on Friday, Sept. 17.
Reservations are required for the complimentary breakfast, which will be served with staggered seating from 7:30 to 8:25 a.m. in the Viking Commons.
The opening convocation, including the bestowing of awards on several faculty and staff members, will take place from 8:30 to 9:45 a.m. in the Maistage Theater of the Performing Arts Center.
Faculty at Western Washington University’s Advanced Materials Science and Engineering Center have been awarded a three-year $970,000 National Science Foundation grant to continue their research into producing the next generation of solar panels.
Carolyn Nielsen (Journalism) presented her manuscript "From Demography to Demonstrations to Diversity: Three Iconic Events Show Latino/a Newspapers’ Counternarrative to General-Market Newspaper Coverage" on Aug. 16 at the Identity and Media: New Agendas in Communication Conference at the University of Texas at Austin. The working conference featured scholars whose work has been selected for possible inclusion in a book on media and Social Identity Theory.
This 3-day workshop, Aug. 30 to Sept. 1, will include presentations and working sessions on a wide variety of technologies for teaching at Western. The recently released Blackboard 9 will form the core of the presentations. Preparing materials for online delivery, using Blackboard for assessment and implementing collaboration tools within Blackboard will be included. Real-time conferencing via Elluminate and preparing recorded materials using Lecture Capture tools will also be presented.
Just a reminder that today (Tuesday, Aug. 17) is the last day to RSVP for the LGBT Advocacy Council Summer Social.
The quarterly social event for LGBT and Ally faculty and staff will be Friday, Aug. 20 at 5 p.m. at Pepper Sisters, 1055 N State St.
The event is open to all faculty and staff, but an RSVP is requested by today in order to provide accurate numbers to the restaurant.
Please RSVP to lisa.larrabee@wwu.edu or call (360) 650-2993.
By popular demand, Western Washington University’s Department of Theatre and Dance will present a special remount production of “Stories from Jim and Jo” at 7 p.m. Sunday, Sept. 26, in the Performing Arts Center (PAC) Mainstage Theater.
Carolyn Nielsen (Journalism) presented papers Aug. 4 and 6 at the national Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication conference in Denver. Her sole-authored papers included "Community Conversation or 'The New Bathroom Wall?' Anonymous Online Comments and the Journalist's Role" and "Wise Latina: The Framing of Sonia Sotomayor in The New York Times and El Diario-La Prensa."
David Brancaccio, a longtime national business journalist and host and senior editor of NOW on PBS, visited Western’s Vehicle Research Institute Wednesday to videotape a feature on Western’s Vehicle Research Institute (VRI) team that completed a dramatic run all the way to the last days of competition in the finals of the Progressive Automotive X Prize.
By popular demand, Western Washington University’s Department of Theatre and Dance will present a special remount production of “Stories from Jim and Jo” at 7 p.m. Sunday, Sept. 26, in the Performing Arts Center (PAC) Mainstage Theater.
Jeffrey King (Psychology) has been involved in a number of activities this summer. He gave the invited presentation “Integrating Evidence and Practice: Practice-Based Evidence” at the Integrating Evidence and Practice invitational forum sponsored by the Child, Adolescent and Family Branch (CAFB), Center for Mental Health Services (CMHS), Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, held in Washington, DC., May 11 and 12.
