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Tony's Coffee x WWU

The caffeinated collaboration is a blend that's uniquely Western

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.

Adventure is for everyone

The WWU alums at Vamos Outdoors Project have helped thousands of youth try out adventure sports.

Consistently Sharpe

Either Phil or Sue Sharpe sat on Western’s Board of Trustees for almost all of the 21st century.

Moving Up

Western’s supply chain program, among the best in the country, prepares grads with acumen in business, science and analytics.

Window magazine wins regional honors

Window’s print edition was honored among general-interest university magazines.

Zero-energy Kaiser Borsari Hall nearing completion

The building will house energy studies as well as electrical and computer engineering

A new creative space for sound

The Salish Sea Studio is open in Fairhaven College

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

Global Hitchhiker

How far could a guy get in 1960 with two feet, one thumb and 18 bucks?

'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

Behind-the-scenes photo of a person being filmed while standing in a park with the skyline of Bellevue in the background.

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

Two kids stand smiling next to Western basketball players at the sidelines

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

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.

Building a More Inclusive Teacher Workforce

Washington Education Association partners with WWU

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.

1969: A Close Shave in the VU

The barbers in the VU knew what was on our minds

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.