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A life's work
Western’s Center for Pacific Northwest Studies will be home to the personal collection of feminist scholar Catharine R. Stimpson.
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.
All Things Energy
Western’s Institute for Energy Studies prepares students to tackle the world’s toughest climate and energy problems.
‘Everything is about energy’: The many lives of Olivier Singbo
Olivier Singbo is using what he’s learned about energy to ensure his family’s access to electricity.
Lessons in Hope
When Kate Darby teaches about environmental problems, she includes how people are working together to address them
Higher ed's role in climate change solutions
Interdisciplinary programs are essential to preparing students for a new energy future
How we know the energy transition is here
It won’t be easy or simple, but clean energy is accelerating
Introducing Window guest editor Amy Harder
An ’07 journalism alum, Harder covers clean tech and green energy
A place at the table
Pierce County’s passionate restaurant reviewer Sue Kidd remembered
The Roehl Way
Tom Roehl has spent 25 years encouraging students to stretch beyond boundaries
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
Joining the ‘Major Leagues of voice’
Music's Richard L. Hodges will take the stage in Seattle Opera's 'X: The Life and Times of Malcolm X'
Leading with 'radical love'
State principal of the year William Jackson on justice-centered education
Where the Whales Are
Alum Caitlyn Blair turns her girlhood love of orcas into a career protecting the Salish Sea
Aperture of Empathy
Does looking into the eyes of an animal make us more likely to act to save its endangered habitat?
Enlisting drones to study the world’s most remote glaciers
Alia Khan collects ice from the world's highest places
Plastic Trash Upcycler
Alum Ryan Hackler’s company turns plastic into petrochemical alternatives. His startup is getting funding from the Department of Energy.
River Views
John Feodorov’s new work for the Seattle Convention Center is a story of the Duwamish River
In Her Father’s Memory
Julann Spromberg learned to love nature on her family farm, and learned to be a scientist at Western
Eye on the Water
The Institute for Watershed Studies provides long-term water quality data for Lake Whatcom.
Immersive Future of Language
Virtual reality can help revitalize Indigenous languages, says Fairhaven Dean Caskey Russell
'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.
A Viking Comes Full Circle
Jim Sterk returns to Western to lead Viking Athletics
Jane Wong's 'furious, joyful memoir'
The New York Times, Publisher's Weekly and Kirkus Reviews love 'Meet Me Tonight in Atlantic City.'
Keys, Phone, Lifesaver
How do you bring an overdose-stopping drug to the masses? Make it sleek, stylish and small enough to carry on a keychain.
A brighter financial future
Alum Paul Merriman shares a lifetime of financial knowledge with WWU students and the community
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