The Biology Department at Western Washington University has announced its schedule of seminars for spring quarter. All are welcome to attend these free events, which take place at 4 p.m. in Biology Building Room 234.
Western Washington University’s College of Sciences and Technology will continue its “Wizards @ Western” youth lecture series with “The Secret Lives of Dinosaurs” at 10 a.m. on Saturday, March 6, in Science Lecture Hall 110 on the WWU campus.
Western Washington University Associate Professor of Biology Anu Singh-Cundy will present “In Defense of Scientific Eating: A Tale of Two Grandmas” tonight at 7 p.m. at Bellingham City Hall's council chambers.
As I grew up, I dreamt of being many things, including an astronaut. I was fortunate to attend schools (in Minnesota) that encouraged, challenged and prepared me for success in college, work and beyond, and in 1978 realized my childhood dream, eventually flying on three NASA space missions.
When I retired from NASA, I chose to dedicate myself to improving the education system. Schools should help each student obtain the knowledge, skills, and confidence to stay in school and pursue whatever path they might choose after high school graduation, be it an astronaut or auto technician.
Walk in Arroyo Park with Bellingham resident Dave Tucker and you get more than pleasant conversation in a pretty, wooded setting.
You'll get to hear the geologist talk about time stretching back millions, maybe hundreds of millions, of years. You'll learn about hot, flowing rock that eventually cooled and pushed through the Earth's crust.
Western Washington University Associate Professor of Biology Anu Singh-Cundy will present “In Defense of Scientific Eating: A Tale of Two Grandmas” from 7 to 8:30 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 17, at the Bellingham City Council chambers, second floor, Bellingham City Hall, 210 Lottie St.
George Parker, an industry expert in the analytical technology for mass spectrometry, has applied his skills in innovative ways to improve the process of polymer fabrication. That puts him on the cutting edge of technology advance, in a company shaking up the world of commercial aviation with designs such as the composite-built 787 Dreamliner, and it would be praiseworthy in itself.
But look closer, and it becomes apparent that Dr.
Western Washington University was mentioned in a recent video on degrees in plastics engineering technology. The video was produced by Pennsylvania College of Technology and WVIA public television.
John Gilbertson (Chemistry) recently received a Single Investigator Cottrell College Science Award for $44,965 from the Research Corporation to continue his work on developing environmentally friendly small molecules that mimic the biologically important enzyme nitrogenase. These target molecules are important in studying the production of ammonia (a necessary nutrient in growing crops that is responsible for feeding more than 40 percent of the world's population).
Beth Phillips knows how to catch a seabird in the dark and make it regurgitate.
But more importantly, she understands why anyone would want to do such a thing.
Phillips, 33, is a marine biologist working with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Point Adams Lab in Hammond.
In the spring and summer, when weather permits, she boards a boat with fellow researchers, heads out to sea as the sun is setting and often doesn't return until 3 a.m. It's too hard to catch the birds in the daylight, she said, because "they see you coming.
Western Washington University Professor Brad Johnson, chair of the Department of Physics and Astronomy, will present “The Solace of Quantum: The Amazing Science Behind Nanotechnology and Supercolliders” from 7 to 8:30 p.m. Wednesday, Dec. 2, at the Bellingham City Council chambers, second floor, Bellingham City Hall, 210 Lottie St.
Three-time choice Danielle Slaughter headed eight Western Washington University student-athletes named to the Great Northwest Athletic Conference Cross Country Academic All-Star Team announced Thursday, Nov. 12.
Slaughter is a bio-chemistry major with a 3.69 (4.0 scale) grade point average.
Two Vikings selected for the second straight year were Jordan Welling, a manufacturing and supply chain management major with a 3.60 GPA, and Maeve Sayres, a biology major with a 3.26 GPA.
Julie Larson-Green is relieved. As corporate vice president of "Windows Experience" at Microsoft, she has just overseen the successful launch of Microsoft's new operating system, Windows 7.
Foliage on trees lining traffic routes could serve as low-tech pollution sensors, a new analysis suggests.
The exhaust of many vehicles, particularly those that burn diesel, includes copious quantities of microscopic particles of many sizes. Although particles larger than 10 micrometers in diameter are efficiently filtered by the upper respiratory system, those smaller than 2.5 micrometers across can reach areas deep within the human lung to trigger disease and inflammation, says Bernard Housen, a geophysicist at Western Washington University in Bellingham.
The Ferraris, Lamborghinis, Porsches and other conventional sports cars were bumped from the showroom of the Manhattan Classic Car Club today in favor of a motley array of alternative vehiclesmany of which could likely out-accelerate the world-renowned sports cars. From high-schoolers modifying a Ford Focus hybrid to run on biofuel to would-be manufacturers of three-wheeled electric vehicles, the X PRIZE's seven automotive expert judges have winnowed a field of 135 vehicles down to 53, powered by six different fuel sources and coming from 18 states and 10 countries.
Footage of the opening will air on Bellingham's BTV10 at 6:30 p.m. Mondays and Thursdays and 3:30 p.m. Tuesdays and Sundays throughout the month of October.
In Bellingham, the focus is on marine industries, starting with southside boatbuilder All-American Marine. Western Washington University faculty will lend their expertise in composite materials to help the company develop lighter-weight, lower-wake vessels.
Governor Christine Gregoire was in Bellingham Monday for the dedication of the Waterfront Innovation Zone Technology Development Center in the former Georgia-Pacific tissue warehouse on Bellingham’s waterfront.
Gov. Chris Gregoire spoke Monday at the grand opening and dedication of the new 1,000-square-foot Waterfront Innovation Zone: Technology Development Center located on the Port of Bellingham’s 220-acre Waterfront District.
art of the former Georgia-Pacific tissue warehouse on Bellingham’s waterfront is now the “Waterfront Innovation Zone: Technology Development Center.”
Governor Christine Gregoire is helping dedicate the center Monday at 2 p.m.
Stodden said he moved to Fairbanks in 1975 from Washington state, where he was raised on a dairy farm and didn’t have a day off until college. He holds a bachelor’s degree in English and a minor in mathematics from Western Washington University, earned in 1970.
Has Earth's fever broken?
Official government measurements show that the world's temperature has cooled a bit since reaching its most recent peak in 1998.
In a warming world, scientists have told us to expect more rain and less snow in the Northwest -- but not less overall precipitation.
New evidence, however, suggests that dry years are becoming more severely dry across the region.
Even in the rain-drenched Northwest, the trend could escalate water conflicts if it continues. Farmers, conservationists and city water managers would face severe challenges trying to balance human needs with the survival requirements of endangered salmon that need cold, clean, rushing water.
Barry Hutchinson was home on the rainy afternoon of Jan. 7 when he heard a roar that grew louder and louder, until he thought Mount Baker was blowing its top.
"It sounded like a 747 tethered to the bridge," he said, referring to the span over Racehorse Creek that is about a half-mile from his home near North Fork Road.
Come next spring, Whatcom County residents could be riding a bus powered by cow manure, thanks to a $500,000 grant for Western Washington University's Vehicle Research Institute.
The U.S. Department of Energy grant will expand the VRI's Biomethane for Transportation Project, which works with Vander Haak dairy in Lynden to turn cow waste into clean-burning biomethane. That biomethane could then be used to power a revamped Bellair Charters bus.
