After 42 years in education in Washington and Idaho, Dominic Cvitanich, M.Ed., retired as superintendent of the Olympia School District. He recently wrote “Stardust and the Bitter Moon,” a novel available on Amazon Kindle.
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
Class Notes
Dominic Cvitanich - 1980
Class Notes (General)
Kori Malone - 1999
Class Notes (General)
Port Angeles Police Department Sgt. Kori Malone, B.A., psychology, recently became the leader of the department’s detective division.
Tyson Romanick - 2005
Class Notes (General)
Tyson Romanick, B.A., business administration, is a certified financial analyst and recently became an assistant vice president at Baker Boyer Bank, based in Walla Walla.