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What’s the Catch?
WWU students on cybersecurity outreach teams help middle-schoolers see the cost of free stuff online.
Big Southern Skies
The Vera C. Rubin Observatory in Chile is expected to show us a whole new view when it comes online in 2025. A WWU alum is on the team preparing for ‘first light.’
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.
Making space for 90 million people
If you haven’t spent dozens of hours (or hundreds, we won’t judge) immersed in the work of alum Alison Lührs, you probably know someone who has.
Moving Up
Western’s supply chain program, among the best in the country, prepares grads with acumen in business, science and analytics.
Adventure is for everyone
The WWU alums at Vamos Outdoors Project have helped thousands of youth try out adventure sports.
Kaiser Borsari Hall preview
Alumni Stories
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.
$10 million XPRIZE: Rainforest win goes to Team Limelight
Neal Digre, '16, contributed his expertise in computer science and linguistics
Alison Luhrs, World Builder
Leading with 'radical love'
State principal of the year William Jackson on justice-centered education
'She Was Beautiful, Loyal and Tough'
Marine Sciences graduate Amirah Casey’s impressive list of accomplishments includes embracing her late mother's story as part of her own.
Alumni Award nominations are open
Tell us who's making the WWU community proud
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.
Joyce Block's second act: studying the invasive European green crab
Junior Vikings Kids Club
WWU Athletics | Kids aged 12 and under
WWU News
Window magazine wins regional honors
Window’s print edition was honored among general-interest university magazines.
A life's work
Western’s Center for Pacific Northwest Studies will be home to the personal collection of feminist scholar Catharine R. Stimpson.
Inside the Salish Sea Studio
Consistently Sharpe
Either Phil or Sue Sharpe sat on Western’s Board of Trustees for almost all of the 21st century.
A Look Back
A Look Back to 1450: French book of hours
Western Libraries Special Collections owns 34 hand-written leaves from the 13th, 14th and 15th centuries.
A look back: 1978, Finding a Ride Home
Students who wanted to catch a ride home for the holidays in the 1970’s would check out the Ride Share/Commuter Car Pool Board in the Viking Union to see who was traveling their way.
A look back: The Blue Barnacles
Western's synchronized swimming club practiced and performed from the 1940s to the 1970s
A Look Back: Hanging out on ‘Log Ramps’ in 1991
Western has a long tradition of student involvement in campus art, even if they don’t know it.
