College of Science and Engineering
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| Wild About Nature: Flora of the Pacific Rim | Eric DeChaine is the curator of the Pacific Northwest Herbarium and a professor of biology at Western Washington University, but he says that at heart he is a naturalist. DeChaine was one of two presenters at the April 21 Wild About Nature presentation held at the White Salmon Grange.… |
2023-05-03 | |
| Western to break ground on its first zero-energy building on May 20 | 2023-05-03 | ||
| WWU clubs to host Science Communications Symposium on May 4 | 2023-05-02 | ||
| Study: New boating distance rule no cure-all for Southern Residents | New legislation, passed by the state Legislature earlier this month, requires boats and vessels in Puget Sound to maintain a 1,000-yard buffer between them and endangered Southern… |
2023-05-01 | |
| WWU students envision new life for ocean plastics | Each year, hundreds of tons of plastics wash up along Alaska’s remote shorelines — from buoys to nets to plastic bottles. At Western Washington University, students are reimagining the future of those plastics. In 2019, Western’s polymer materials engineering program… |
2023-05-01 | |
| The Carnegie Institution's Robert Hazen to Present 'Earth’s Time Capsules: Minerals and the Informatics Revolution' on May 2 at 4 p.m. | 2023-04-28 | ||
| Western Student Aimee Long Receives Prestigious Undergraduate Research Fellowship | 2023-04-27 | ||
| Looking into Augustine's past to better understand its future | WWU's Kristina Walowski discusses her recent research on Alaska's Augustine volcano. Click the link at right to listen. |
2023-04-25 | |
| Research aims to better understand the threat of Augustine Volcano | Researchers are looking to the past of Alaska’s Augustine volcano to find answers about its future. An ongoing research collaboration between the Alaska Volcano Observatory and scientists at Western Washington University seeks to broaden existing knowledge about the volcano to… |
2023-04-24 | |
| Western geology professor taking part in volcanic expedition | Scientists are collecting samples from the ocean floor off the coast of Greece in hopes of predicting future volcanic activity. Among the team will be volcanologist Susan DeBari, a geology professor at Western Washington University. “I feel really lucky to be here,” DeBari said in a Zoom… |
2023-04-19 |