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| Five WWU grads receive nationally recognized River Management Society credentials | |||
| WWU researchers document 93% historical loss of persistent, old-growth grasslands in the San Juan Islands | |||
| Inevitable or preventable? The wild west of AI use at WWU | In one classroom at Western Washington University, a professor is teaching a class of students how to “vibe code” their own artificial intelligence agents. In another, a professor has moved coursework offline and is printing out readings to discourage student use of AI. |
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| Explore, restore and celebrate the Sehome Hill Arboretum at Arboretum Day, May 30 | |||
| Community film screening of “Tainted Gold” explores resistance and environmental justice in the Ecuadorian Amazon | |||
| WWU Environmental Studies grad student models potential habitat for highly endangered local butterfly | |||
| Winter Environmental Speaker Series co-presented by the College of the Environment and the Salish Sea Institute | |||
| The island’s foxes have adapted, and are important to our local ecosystem | These issues are not new, and the island’s foxes were the subject of considerable separate research by Pillow and wildlife ecologist Gregory A. Green. Green, a professor at Western Washington University, collected and analyzed island fox scat samples for DNA tests to determine the island… |
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| Major ‘megafires’ are now primed to ignite across the US. All it needs is a spark | “What we are doing is changing the fire return intervals,” says Michael Medler, a professor of environmental studies at Western Washington University. “If you take a bunch of 500 year fire return interval areas in the West side and turn those into 100 year fire return intervals, you may still… |
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| Students start a mini forest | Other cities in the U.S have used the Miyawaki Method to grow their urban tree canopy cover. In fact, students at Western Washington University in Bellingham planted a mini forest using the method two years ago. Students working in the university’s… |