WWU Stories

Features, research highlights and stories about our people

SMATE faculty reel in $1.4 million NSF grant to help boost science teaching in local elementary schools

WWU's Shannon Warren, Tracy Coskie and Emily Borda smile for the camera inside the SMATE building on campus.

Seattle Children’s Theatre and WWU team up to prep students for performing arts professions

Rich Brown on stage with others performing in "The Snow Queen"

Farewell to UPD's Ron Carpenter

Ron Carpenter smiles at the camera; behind him is a rock wall

Get to know Keith Russell, the new dean of WWU's College of Humanities and Social Sciences

Keith Russell smiles at the camera while sitting in a snowfield high in the Cascades

WWU's Derek Moscato presents recent research on the shared cultural impact of baseball between U.S. and Japan

Mashi Murakami in his uniform

WWU chemistry students, faculty publish new paper on reducing greenhouse gases

Two students work in a chem lab in a fume hood; their hands are in gloves

WWU student and women's rugby player Sydney Copeland heads to Dubai this week to play on the U.S. Olympic developmental team, the Falcons

Sydney practicing with teammates at Harrington Field

Water Watchdogs: Inside the Work of WWU’s Institute for Watershed Studies

Two students in a boat on Lake Whatcom

Inside Emily Lampert's journey from WWU undergrad to doctoral candidate

Emily Lampert poses in front of Old Main in her commencement regalia

Meet Mitchell Gibbs, WWU's visiting Fulbright scholar from Australia

Mitch Gibbs smiles while holding a live sea urchin

Discover The Global Impact of Online Education: A Conversation with Visiting Professor Alassane Dia of Senegal Nov. 15

A courtyard nested next to a brick building

WWU alumna Rena Priest kicks off campus' Native American Heritage Month activities Nov. 2

Rena Priest smiles as she looks down at the floor