College of Science and Engineering
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| The excitement of 70,000 Swifties can shake the Earth | The well-situated seismometer first came to public attention in January 2011, when it recorded the response of fans of the Seattle Seahawks, an American football team, to a magnificent touchdown by Marshawn Lynch, a running back known as “Beast Mode”. The “Beast Quake” went down in local… |
2023-12-14 | |
| WWU tops out mass timber building, with a focus on carbon net-neutral | Kaiser Borsari Hall has topped out at the Western Washington University campus in Bellingham. When completed, the four-story, approximately 54,000-square-foot building will be the new home for the university's electrical engineering, computer science, and energy science and technology programs.… |
2023-12-14 | |
| 13 reasons for Taylor Swift to celebrate her birthday | A Seattle seismologist found the crowd's dancing mixed with the booming speakers at Lumen Field caused seismic activity on par with a 2.3 magnitude earthquake. Jackie… |
2023-12-14 | |
| WWU chemistry students, faculty publish new paper on reducing greenhouse gases | 2023-12-01 | ||
| Second Call for 2024-2025 Honors Seminar Proposals | 2023-12-01 | ||
| Even Though Tarsiers, One Of The Oldest Nocturnal Primates Alive Today, Were Discovered During The Eighteenth Century, Not Many People Know About The Existence Of This Tiny Creature | According to Myron Shekelle, a biology instructor and researcher at Western Washington University, this absence of the reflective layer in the tarsier’s eyes offers some insight into the evolution of primates. He stated that tarsiers may have once been diurnal primates, which means they… |
2023-11-16 | |
| The Scientist Who Decodes the Songs of Undersea Volcanoes | We often think of volcanoes as skyscraping marvels, but these portals to the geologic underworld also reside underwater. Unfortunately, submarine volcanoes are trickier to study than their terrestrial siblings. But you would be hard-pressed to find anyone more enchanted by them — and more… |
2023-11-16 | |
| WWU’s Robin Kodner Secures $1.9M NSF Grant to Support DEI Initiatives in Scientific Societies | 2023-10-31 | ||
| Western alum creates nasal spray device for opioid overdoses | Like many medications, naloxone — the nasal spray that reverses the effects of an opioid overdose — comes in a flimsy box. The device that administers the medication is shaped like a cartoon spaceship and has to remain sealed in blister pack until use. It’s clunky to carry and can be sprayed… |
2023-10-30 | |
| Washington's Volcanoes Are Experiencing Seismic Tremors from an Unlikely Source: Glaciers | Most people think of seismic activity as the result of movement along faults or of violent volcanic eruptions. But seismic events can have other causes, including floods and even large… |
2023-10-26 |