Western Today for Wednesday, June 3

Hydrogen Road Tour makes WWU pitstop

Alternative fuel vehicles from (left to right) Toyota, Daimler, General Motors, Hyundai and Volkswagen were arrayed in Red Square Tuesday for the Hydrogen Road Tour, which began in Chula Vista, Calif., and ends today in Vancouver, B.C. Other manufacturers with vehicles at Western Tuesday were Honda, Nissan and Kia. Also on display in Red Square were vehicles built by the VRI that run on a variety of fuel sources including biomethane, natural gas and solar power.

See below for a full story in the Bellingham Herald.

Matthew Anderson/WWU

New edition of 'Window' out, new Window Web site unveiled

Have you seen the new edition of Window, WWU's magazine? No need to wait on a paper copy: check out the new Window Web site at www.wwu.edu/window.

Calendar feeds to myWestern portal now available

Western Washington University implemented a new events calendar a few months ago. This calendar contains all major events scheduled by university organizations. To go to directly to the campus Events Calendar in myWestern, click on "WWU Events Calendar" in the WWU News & Publications portlet on the News & Events tab. The Office of University Communications is organizing and maintaining this campus-wide calendar.

For more, see FAST Online.

EOO policies on 30-day review

The Equal Opportunity Office has posted for 30-day campus review the following policies:

POL-U1600.02 Providing Equal Opportunity and Nondiscrimination
POL-U1600.03 Accommodating Persons with Disabilities
POL-U1600.04 Preventing Sexual Harassment
POL-U1600.05 Implementing Affirmative Action Program

The four policies listed above were revised and pulled from one larger document. They have been reformatted to fit the Peabody style of policy writing that Western uses and are much more easily accessible on the university policy website in this new format. For more, see FAST Online.

The Bellingham Herald

Tour of hydrogen-fueled cars makes stop at WWU
The average observer wouldn't notice anything different about the dozen or so cars parked in Western Washington University's Red Square Tuesday, June 2.
On the outside they looked like shiny new models from big-name carmakers - Toyota, Honda and GM, to name a few - but under the hood the real difference was obvious. These were hydrogen fuel cell vehicles, the combustion engine replaced by an electric motor powered by hydrogen fuel cells.
"We're thrilled," said Eric Leonhardt, director of WWU's Vehicle Research Institute. "It's a great opportunity for our students and for the community to see the potential future for vehicles."
McMillan back running a few causes
Elizabeth McMillon once "hated running," but now she finds herself thrilled at the prospect of joining 25,000 others for the first Rock 'n Roll Seattle Marathon. She only wishes she could have raised $25,000 to donate to cancer research. McMillon, a 26-year-old Western Washington University graduate student, is part of the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society's Team in Training. It's a group of volunteers who not only commit to receiving training and coaching for events in running, cycling or triathlons, but also to raising funds for cancer research.

WWU News Releases

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