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Drawn to the Ocean
Meet retired teacher Joyce Block, a grad student with a voracious mind and the work ethic of a South Dakota farm kid. She’s set her sights on an invasive crab intent on wrecking the Salish Sea.
Forever coming soon
Chris E. Vargas’ museum dedicated to trans and non-binary art and history will always be under construction.
Decoding the sounds of the rainforest
Neal Digre, ‘16, is using the machine learning and linguistics skills he learned at WWU in the $10 million XPRIZE Rainforest competition.
An internship for a greener future
New environmental communications endowment equips students to tell stories for the Earth.
A life's work
Western’s Center for Pacific Northwest Studies will be home to the personal collection of feminist scholar Catharine R. Stimpson.
Junior Vikings Kids Club
WWU Athletics | Kids aged 12 and under
Alumni Stories
2009: Bill Wright loves this game ... but he had to fight to play it
Fifty years ago, a WWU alum used a putter to demolish one of golf's racial barriers
Leading with 'radical love'
State principal of the year William Jackson on justice-centered education
First Crush, Second Draft
Alum Will Taylor’s book about first love is one of a growing number of LGBTQ+ stories for kids
Research and Creativity
Aperture of Empathy
Does looking into the eyes of an animal make us more likely to act to save its endangered habitat?
Forever coming soon
Chris E. Vargas’ museum dedicated to trans and non-binary art and history will always be under construction.
Artistic Gifts
A brainy timber heiress with a passion for sculpture, Virginia Wright brought some of the nation’s best contemporary artists to Western’s Sculpture Collection
Artistic Legacy
The most recent addition to Western’s Sculpture Collection has a link to the person who helped start it all.
River Views
John Feodorov’s new work for the Seattle Convention Center is a story of the Duwamish River
Window to a Solar Future
An alum who helped develop a new solar window technology in a lab at Western returns to install the finished product at the Western Gallery
Minds of Title IX
Hear from a few faculty at Western who are forging ahead in academic fields previously (or still) dominated by men
The Energy Edition
How we know the energy transition is here
It won’t be easy or simple, but clean energy is accelerating
Lessons in Hope
When Kate Darby teaches about environmental problems, she includes how people are working together to address them
WWU News
A brighter financial future
Alum Paul Merriman shares a lifetime of financial knowledge with WWU students and the community
WWU tops all-time Peace Corps ranking
Western is the nation's top producer of Peace Corps volunteers among schools our size.
A closer look at earthquake resilience at sea level
What happens when an earthquake hits a building already damaged by saltwater?
