WWU Stories

Features, research highlights and stories about our people

Senior project takes WWU Computer Science students all the way to Alaska

students strip coho of their eggs in Sitka

WWU Alumna Zoe Ballering Awarded 2025 Oregon Literary Fellowship 

Zoe smiles at the camera, hands on hips.

Ava Wadleigh: Capturing “Pondering Time” for WWU Block Party

Ava Wadleigh holding up artwork she created for WWU Block Party

Journey to 'Ozogoche’: Film Screening and Director Q & A to be held May 16

he backs of a group of people sitting on the edge of the Ozogoche Lake.

Chemistry’s James Vyvyan named an Outstanding Mentor by the Council on Undergraduate Research 

Jim Vyvyan poses for a portrait with a black background

Anthro grad student Jewel Curtis digging into the relationship between bone density and drug use

Jewel Curtis leans over a skull in the osteo lab at WWU

WWU Instructor Elizabeth Ransom explores immigration through her photography series “Homesick”

Abstract image resembling a tree limb on a green background

Scholars Week 2025 highlights Western’s record of academic excellence

A student presents a science project at a poster session. He holds a circuit board, explaining it to onlookers. Other students attentively listen.

Renowned wildlife photographer Tim Flach to visit WWU May 13

Event poster for Tim Flach, May 13 at Western Washington University, featuring a blue stylized bird. Open to the public.

Environmental Sciences Field Camp opens doors for students to conduct, present and publish research

A person walks through a field of yellow wildflowers with green hills in the background.

The curious, compelling, and somewhat addictive case of Modest Bob

A sign featuring SpongeBob SquarePants, dubbed "Modest Bob," asks "Who is this respectable gentleman?" It's taped to a pole on Western's PAC Plaza.

WWU Chemistry students Kayla Fugami and Gabriel Black publish paper on nitrogen coupling

Six students wearing lab coats and chemistry professor John Gilbertson smile for the camera while standing in the middle of a chemistry lab.