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

Janet Louise Lutz-Smith - 1974

Obituaries

Janet Louise Lutz-Smith, 84, a Lummi Island resident, on Feb. 26, 2024. 

Anne Louise Gregor - 1953

Obituaries

Anne Louise Gregor, 92, retired medical records administrator at Overlake Hospital in Bellevue, on Jan. 3, 2024, in Wenatchee. 

Paul Allen - 1982

Class Notes (General)

Paul Allen, B.S., computer science, recently retired after more than 38 years as a software engineer at IBM in Rochester, Minnesota. He holds several US and international software patents.