Spring-Summer 2024

It won’t be easy or simple, but clean energy is accelerating
Western’s Institute for Energy Studies prepares students to tackle the world’s toughest climate and energy problems.
Olivier Singbo is using what he’s learned about energy to ensure his family’s access to electricity.
When Kate Darby teaches about environmental problems, she includes how people are working together to address them
Western’s Center for Pacific Northwest Studies will be home to the personal collection of feminist scholar Catharine R. Stimpson.
Neal Digre, ‘16, is using the machine learning and linguistics skills he learned at WWU in the $10 million XPRIZE Rainforest competition.
Music's Richard L. Hodges will take the stage in Seattle Opera's 'X: The Life and Times of Malcolm X'
Pierce County’s passionate restaurant reviewer Sue Kidd remembered
Tom Roehl has spent 25 years encouraging students to stretch beyond boundaries
New environmental communications endowment equips students to tell stories for the Earth.
State principal of the year William Jackson on justice-centered education

Class Notes

Timothy David Goon - 1977

Obituaries

Timothy David Goon, 68, retired project manager for the King County Wastewater Division, on Sept. 26, 2023. 

Jerry Goodwin - 1989

Class Notes (General)

Jerry Goodwin, B.S., industrial technology, became the president and CEO of Guerdon Modular Buildings, which specializes in building large projects in sections to be assembled on site.  

Andrea Entz - 2019

Class Notes (General)

Andrea Entz, B.S., psychology, is a voice actor, podcast manager and stand-up comedian who recently moved to Los Angeles after performing in Seattle and Tacoma.