Western Today for Thursday, Aug. 13

Sanford Piano Series schedule announced

Charlie Albright will play the first concert of the 2009-10 Sanford Piano Series at 7:30 p.m. Friday, Oct. 9, in the Performing Arts Center Concert Hall.
Originally from Centralia, the 20-year-old has performed throughout the United States, France, and Australia to sold-out audiences and critical acclaim. Described as a “poet of the piano” by The New York Times, Albright was just named a 2010 Gilmore Young Artist.

Photo courtesy of Tatsunori Hashimoto

Charlie Albright

Western license plates available for free from Alumni Association

The Western Alumni Association is giving away more than 500 free WWU specialty license plates to Western students. They are going fast! To get your free plate, bring a copy of your vehicle registration to the Western Alumni House on High Street. Plates are available for faculty, staff, alumni, all students, parents and anyone else who wants to show off some Western pride.

Shared leave donations needed

The following WWU employees are in need of shared leave donations: Brenda Armstrong, Paul Cleveland, Robin Koenig, Dawn Magana, Georgie Muska, Ashley Perigo and Catherine Sheard. For more information, visit FAST Online.

Parking Lot 17G Improvements will impact permit holders this summer

Repaving of parking lot 17G will begin Aug. 24. Officials anticipate that the work should take roughly two weeks and that the lot will be re-opened by Sept 11 at the latest.

This project is long overdue.

Officials understand that this much-needed project will inconvenience permit holders and visitors and hope that the improvement to the lot will outweigh the temporary displacement.

During this project, 17G permit holders may park in the portion of the lot that is identified as open as well as in the AIC parking lot, in lot 19G and in lot 12A.

Stay tuned to Western Today for more updates.

On campus today:

WWU Lakewood Jr. Sailing Camp
Western Kids Camp "Everyone's a Star"
Summerstart: New freshmen advising, registration and orientation
Dance Academy for Youth (DAY)

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The Bellingham Herald

Viking Night set for Oct. 1
The 20th annual Viking Night Dinner and Sports Auction, presented by Key Bank, will take place on Thursday, Oct. 1 at Sam Carver Gymnasium on the Western Washington University campus.

Viking Night is recognized as one of the premier social events in Whatcom County, with more than 500 Western boosters attending each year. The evening includes a hosted social hour, dinner, and silent and live auctions.

"Celebrating 20 Years of Viking Night," the theme of this year's event, will give attendees an opportunity to meet male and female Athletes of the Year from 1990 thru 2009 and see the impact this event has made on the lives of so many Western student-athletes.

University of California, Riverside

Philosophy graduate wins second prestigious fellowship
Neal A. Tognazzini, who graduated with a Ph.D. in philosophy from the University of California, Riverside in June, has won a second fellowship from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation/American Council of Learned Societies.

Tognazzini, 28, won an Early Career Fellowship Program Dissertation Completion Fellowship in 2008. His dissertation, “The Conceptual Foundations of Moral Responsibility,” explores the ways in which we respond to those who have done wrong or right, particularly how we praise and blame ourselves and others; how much our lives are subject to luck; and how we may be able to strike a balance between luck with respect to how the world unfolds around us and control with respect to our own actions. ...

Tognazzini was raised in Issaquah, Wash., east of Seattle, and earned a bachelor’s degree in philosophy at Western Washington University. He said he chose UC Riverside for graduate school because of the high regard in which the university’s Department of Philosophy is held nationally in the study of free will and moral responsibility.

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