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Lizard Field School

Student biologists learn the how-to's of wildlife research by studying the life and death of lizards in Oregon's Alvord desert. For 15 years Dr. Roger Anderson has been leading students on a three-week immersion into lizard ecology and behavior. Students cope with the primitive…

2014-02-24
Star Wars creator answers fan theory: Was Yoda based on a tarsier, an Asian primate?

Myron Shekelle, a researcher at Western Washington University, in an interview, noted how the long ears and bulging eyes of Yoda’s species are very similar to that of those in the tarsier family that dwell in the tropical rainforest in the Southeast Asian islands of the…

2024-04-25
Western Washington University and Washington Research Foundation partner on new Western Innovation Training Fellowship 2024-04-23
Geology’s Asmaa Boujibar gets new $300,000 NASA grant to research the building blocks of planet Mercury 2024-04-23
Crunching Numbers: WWU undergrad Mayla Ward publishes new research on mathematical statistics 2024-04-17
Higher ed has role to play in climate change solutions

Young people, including college and university students, are pelted with bad news about the world they will inherit.

Vitally important fields such as ecology and environmental science paint a picture of the planet’s natural and physical systems under stress, and the negative impacts of…

2024-04-09
2024 Scholars Week celebration is approaching: Registration begins April 22 2024-04-09
Kimberly Lynn named new director of Western's Honors College 2024-04-08
WWU students, faculty attend NSTA conference in Denver 2024-04-05
Nearly 500 visitors take a tour of WWU's Insect Collection 2024-04-03
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