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

Paul Jaromir Vonsovic - 2021

Obituaries

Paul Jaromir Vonsovic, 25, who worked for the Northshore School District, on March 16, 2024. 

Melanie Grimes - 1975

Obituaries

Melanie Joy Grimes, 72, who founded and managed the first chain of stores in the U.S. carrying Birkenstocks then later worked as a writer and medical editor specializing in homeopathy, on Feb. 12, 2024, in Durham, North Carolina. 

Arthur Lim - 2005

Class Notes (General)

Arthur Lim, B.S., P.E., sport psychology, founded Let's All Pickleball, a non-competitive pickleball league with fewer rules, aimed at encouraging broader participation in the sport by people of all abilities.