WWU Stories

Features, research highlights and stories about our people

Multicultural Student Services welcomes its new assistant director, simone calais-staley

simone smiles at the camera in a head-and shoulders portrait

WWU grad student Wilson Sackett researching Jewish prayer books in Germany

Overhead view of the brick walkways in front of Old Main

June Fraser Thistle set to retire after more than 20 years at WWU

June sits at her desk and smiles at the camera

WWU faculty headed to Washington DC to present Mongolian Studies research

Overhead view of the walkway next to the Biology building, which has yellow brick rivers representing currents in the red brick sea representing Bellingham Bay

Music's Richard L. Hodges to perform in Seattle Opera's 'X: The Life and Times of Malcolm X' in February

Richard Hodges, at a piano, gestures to a student in the foreground who is singing

Research recap: Students working on new research in anthropology and environmental sciences

Jack McBride scans a monkey skull using a 3-d scanner as the image is shown on his laptop

WWU's Jill Davishahl named the Outstanding Teacher in the Pacific Northwest by the ASEE

Jill smiles at the camera; behind her are some woods

WWU team claims the EduHacks hackathon crown in Seattle

Students pose at the Hackathon

WWU faculty, alums collaborate on new display at the Museum of Northwest Art

Art by Sasha Petrenko

Honors College director Scott Linneman to retire in August

Scott holds up a white board to illustrate to students how the caldera of a volcano can fall to make a lake.

WWU Anthropology Faculty Tesla Monson and Marianne Brasil Secure New $550k NSF grant

Tesla and Marianne examine hominid skulls in the Anthro lab

WWU's Kristin Denham inducted into the 2024 class of Fellows of the Linguistics Society of America

Drone shot of the campus at night, looking south from above Edens Hall