Fall 2023

Marine Sciences graduate Amirah Casey’s impressive list of accomplishments includes embracing her late mother's story as part of her own.
The New York Times, Publisher's Weekly and Kirkus Reviews love 'Meet Me Tonight in Atlantic City.'
Jim Sterk returns to Western to lead Viking Athletics
Does looking into the eyes of an animal make us more likely to act to save its endangered habitat?
WWU grad student Annie Jolliff stalks bumble bees.
How do you bring an overdose-stopping drug to the masses? Make it sleek, stylish and small enough to carry on a keychain.
The Institute for Watershed Studies provides long-term water quality data for Lake Whatcom.
Washington Education Association partners with WWU
One is devoted to the study of earthquakes, and the other focused on bridging Indigenous and “Western” scientific knowledge.
Alum Paul Merriman shares a lifetime of financial knowledge with WWU students and the community
What happens when an earthquake hits a building already damaged by saltwater?
Before world fame, the indie rock band played the Fairhaven Auditorium

Class Notes

Carol V. Davis - 1975

Class Notes (General)

Carol V. Davis, B.A., Fairhaven interdisciplinary concentration, just had her fourth poetry book
published: "Below Zero," Stephen F. Austin State University Press. The book is centered on
poems about Siberia, where Carol taught at a university in January 2018. She was due to be back in
Siberia in 2020 as a Fulbright Specialist. She postponed twice because of COVID-19 and when the war
began, the State Department closed the Fulbright program in Russia. Carol teaches at Santa Monica College and Antioch University, Los Angeles.

Frederick Livingston - 2014

Class Notes (General)

Frederick Livingston, B.S., environmental science, is an ecologist and poet who was just awarded the Prism Prize for Climate Literature for his upcoming book, "Trees are Bridges to the Sky," due from Homebound Press in 2024. His first book of poetry, "The Moon and Other Fruits," was published by Legacy Book Press in April. 

Mindy Pelton - 2004

Class Notes (General)

Mindy Pelton, B.A., anthropology, 2011, M.B.A, has recently been hired as director of the Career Services Center at Western. She has worked at Western for the past 6 years, most recently as the associate director of the Career Services Center and served as the interim director of the center in the 2022-23 academic year.