WWU Stories

Features, research highlights and stories about our people

A Couple in Conversation: Garth Amundson and Pierre Gour exhibit 'Not the Whole Picture' at the Whatcom Museum

Two men in black shirts stand confidently in front of vintage photographs on a wall.

WWU students meet at crossroads of theatre and science with new staging of ‘An Enemy of the People’

Scene from An Enemy of the People

WWU Professor of Theatre Arts Mark Kuntz retires after almost 30 years at Western

A man holding a tall ladder in a theater setting, with empty chairs in the background.

Four WWU grads earn certificates from River Management Society

Collage of four images of the alums who were awarded certificates.

WWU students conduct fish monitoring at Little Squalicum Estuary

A group of people haul in a beach seine at the shoreline.

ONE QUICK QUESTION: The Honeybee Spill

Overturned truck trailer and swarms of bees

Meet WWU's 2025 Outstanding Graduate Students

WWU graduate student Caty Cook stands in front of music standing holding baton

WWU grad student Kelsey Tribble opens up about grief, global catastrophe and her new play, 'The Silent Zoo'

WWU graduate student Kelsey Tribble holding an animal mask at chin level

WWU’s Jay McCarty secures prestigious $676,000 CAREER grant from the NSF

Two people work together at a computer, analyzing a 3D molecular structure on screen.

Strange Cities, New Magics: English’s Stefania Heim translates painter Georgio de Chirico’s novel ‘Mr. Dudron’

A woman in glasses with curly hair in a black shirt stands in front of a white wall

Western’s Greg O’Neil and graduate students invented a bottle adapter that makes researchers safer in the lab

WWU Grad student Kaden Hekker holds a bottle adapter toward the camera

PlasticsToday names WWU a Top 10 school for polymer materials engineering

A hand operates a drill above colorful polymer pieces secured on a workbench.