Poet and artist, professor of English and "Lowery Writer in Residence" at Canisius College in Buffalo, New York.

New York Times deputy foreign editor

Director of the National Center for Photovoltaics at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory

Dalby appeared on campus Jan. 31, 2008, to speak about her book "East Wind Melts the Ice: A Memoir Through the Seasons."

As part of WWU’s “Canada Week,” award-winning Métis poet Marilyn Dumont visited Bellingham on April 17 to give a presentation at Lairmont Manor in Fairhaven that combined performance of her poetry with an introduction to Métis history and her own reflections on where Canada is now in its journey toward a cultural “mosaic.”

Roland Fryer, President's Distinguished Lecture Series speaker

Sarah Vowell, author and National Public Radio personality