15-16: Innovation and Research
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| Texting while walking isn't funny anymore | Manny Fiori’s job is to make sure your phone doesn’t kill you. He guards the entrance to a garage near my San Francisco office and stops cars from hitting pedestrians so engrossed in screens they don’t notice they’re stepping into traffic. “People are so preoccupied… |
2016-02-19 | |
| Free-range education: Why the unschooling movement is growing | On a late Monday morning in this rural New Hampshire town, Dayna and Joe Martin’s four children are all home. Devin, age 16, is hammering a piece of steel in the blacksmith forge he and his parents built out of a storage shed in the backyard. Tiffany, 14, is twirling on a hoverboard,… |
2016-02-16 | |
| Commitment to environment and philanthropy drives six-figure gift to Institute for Energy Studies | 2016-02-10 | ||
| A new look at racial and ethnic disparities in mental health care | There hasn't been a comprehensive look at whether disparities in mental health services have improved since 2001, when a U.S. surgeon general's report warned that racial and ethnic minority populations were underserved. Now a 2015 APA book called "Foundations of Multicultural… |
2016-01-25 | |
| WWU’s Michael Medler Presents Hypothesis on Lava, Fire and Human Evolution at Annual AGU Conference in San Francisco | 2016-01-25 | ||
| WWU’s Center for Economic and Business Research Releases Snohomish County 2015 Business Optimism Survey | 2016-01-19 | ||
| Food and the Single Girl | On a recent morning, my run took me past our local bagel shop, just early enough that the blooming scent of carby goodness wafted out the front door and chased me down the street. When I got home, I dished out my usual breakfast of plain, full-fat yogurt, topped with fruit (a pear that day) and… |
2016-01-14 | |
| Western's Sebastian Mendes to Speak at Los Angeles Holocaust Museum Jan. 23 | 2016-01-14 | ||
| Creative Capital Awards Nearly $4.4 Million in Arts Grants | Artistic projects that aim to reflect broad cultural conversations about gender, gun violence and race are among those chosen for nearly $4.4 million worth of grants awarded by Creative Capital, the organization announced on Tuesday. The winning projects, 46 in all, each receive $50,000 in… |
2016-01-13 | |
| Volcanoes Sparked an Explosion in Human Intelligence, Researcher Argues | Vast lava flows may have provided humans with access to heat and fire for cooking their food millions of years ago, one researcher has proposed. That, in turn, would have enabled the evolution of human intelligence, Michael Medler, a geographer at Western Washington University, said at the… |
2016-01-04 |