Connie Joy Phillips Newcomer, 77, a retired teacher and counselor in Washington and Idaho, on March 29, 2024, in Pullman.
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'
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
Connie Joy Phillips Newcomer - 1967
Obituaries
Robin Modlin - 1974
Class Notes (General)
Robin Modlin, B.A., psychology and Fairhaven interdisciplinary concentration, has a new memoir out, "Love, Courage, and Miracles," about being the mother of a daughter who was born with cystic fibrosis and later received a lung transplant, and the journey it took her on.
Rob McDonald - 1991
Class Notes (General)
Rob McDonald, B.A., journalism, recently became communications director for Energy Keepers, Inc., an independent power producer, owned by the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes. Energy Keepers manages the Se̓liš Ksanka Qĺispe̓ hydropower project on the Flathead Indian Reservation, which has the capacity to generate 208 megawatts of electricity. Previously, Rob worked as the communications director for the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes.