College of Humanities and Social Sciences

Janet Marino is enthusiastic about her new job, but says, "I would love to put myself out of business."
She's the new executive director of Whatcom Peace and Justice Center. A 35-year-old Western Washington University graduate with a degree in political science, Marino took…

Have you ever had to wait for a train at, say, Broad Street in Seattle, right by the SAM Sculpture Park? Or anyplace else along the Burlington Northern Santa Fe tracks that hug the coast of Puget Sound?

Imagine roughly doubling the train traffic on that railroad.…

THE legendary King Canute might well have fought the ‘ungovernable sea’ but it was left to his namesake, international poet, Knute Skinner, to savour the pleasures of peaceful coexistence.
Born in St Louis, Missouri, Knute is the recipient of a Bachelor of Arts (BA) Degree from…

Cori Pflug-Tilton likes to be prepared for whatever may come, and she has to be, as principal of Snoqualmie Elementary School.

“It’s a very dynamic place,” she said one morning during the last week of school. Students and staff were eagerly anticipating Friday, and…

Brian Baird is talking, in paragraphs, about marine snails the size of lentils that are in danger of dying out from the increasing acidity of oceans.

He's speaking with authority about how the loss of those pteropods would disrupt up the food chain, and, for a moment, it's as if…

The beginning of the end of Ethan Remmel's life began just over a year ago with an ache in his abdomen.

He didn't think much of it at the time. After all, he was fit, he ate well and he was only 40 years old. But the pain worsened, so he went to a doctor. Later, after a…