Goodwinds Composites, a Mount Vernon company co-owned by Amelia Cook, ’07, MBA, and her brother Leland Holeman, produced lightweight legs for Ingenuity, the tiny helicopter attached to the Perseverance Rover that recently landed on Mars. This photo of Ingenuity was taken April 7, 2021, by the Mastcam-Z imager, which was developed with the help of WWU Associate Professor of Geology Melissa Rice and her students.
Spring 2021
Barn owls yak up “perfect” educational packages for hands-on science sleuths. An alumni couple collects and sells them to educators.
Learning and living on campus may begin to return to normal this fall
We are especially grateful for opportunities to celebrate our extraordinary community
Fairhaven’s Rukhsar Sadat plans to make a career in advocating for immigrant and refugee families like her own
Western’s Jeff Grimm uses sugar to study the neuroscience of cravings, addiction and relapse
Western is naming its newest residence hall after its first Black student, who became an early 20th century advocate for racial equality
The western bumblebee once flourished across the West Coast but sightings have dropped dramatically
The late Irwin Slenick spent 33 years as a biology professor at Western, working to bring more hands-on learning to science education.
Gaia, the Online Journal of Research, Discovery, and Scholarship at Western, is where to find stories about student and faculty research
The Fairhaven grad co-directed a compelling, unvarnished look at Turner’s soaring and turbulent 60-year career
The capital budget includes $51 million for a new building create some much-needed space for engineering, computer science and energy programs
These two women born more than a century apart share something in common: the immense expectations that come with being a trailblazer.
Window magazine recently won two top awards in the 2021 Best of CASE VIII competition
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Amelia Cook - 2007
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Kate Lebo - 2005
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Farrar, Straus and Giroux recently published “The Book of Difficult Fruit: Arguments for the Tart, Tender, and Unruly (with recipes),” an essay collection by Kate Lebo, B.A., English creative writing.
Patrick Caton - 1978
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Patrick Caton, B.A. geography, retired after 41 years at the Department of Natural Resources in the Cartography Unit of the Engineering Division. He made land-use maps, soils maps, recreation maps and ownership maps, digitized land surveys, updated the transportation network on DNR forest land and completed other mapping projects. He and his wife enjoy living in Olympia.