Loretta Richardson, the widow of Keith Scheid, B.A., English, is paying tribute to her late husband with a road trip to promote and share his adventure book for young readers, "East with the Dragon." Watch for her on the road in her "dragoned-out SUV," covered with artwork from Keith's book.
Fall/Winter 2025
Is wildfire soot accelerating climate change? A WWU research team heads to Greenland to find answers
Trauma had almost broken Australian track star Bec Bennett when she showed up in the office of Western’s Track and Field coach.
Western is a top producer of graduates who earn doctorates. See what a few of those alumni are doing with the highest degrees in their field.
WWU’s Speech-Language, Hearing, and Aural Rehabilitation clinics provide no-cost services to hundreds each year.
Alumnus Lee Whittaker's transformational land gift will help deepen Western's roots in the Methow Valley
Bring a little WWU for the holidays: Our new Hydrascape sticker shows off the beauty of Bellingham.
Classmates who bonded over their love of food have launched a podcast
Class Notes
Keith Scheid - 1984
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Alyssa-Lois Gehman - 2008
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Alyssa-Lois Gehman, M.S., environmental science, is a biologist with British Columbia's Hakai Institute, where she and her research team published a study over the summer pinpointing the pathogen responsible for sea star wasting disease, which has destroyed billions of sea stars on the Pacific Coast for more than a decade. "There are a bunch of things we can do now that we know what causes this disease that might actually change the tide and make it so these animals can survive," Alyssa-Lois told KUOW.
Brett Bachman - 2009
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Brett W. Bachman, B.A., English - creative writing, is an in-demand film editor whose work can be seen this year on six films: "Companion," " Heart Eyes," "Rabbit Trap," "The Toxic Avenger," " Lone Samurai," and "Shelby Oaks."