Jan. 25 is the registration deadline for the "General Education and Assessment: Maintaining Momentum, Achieving New Priorities" conference, to be held Feb. 18 to 20 in Seattle.
Since early this morning, a limited number of users (telephones) are not able to dial off-campus, either local or long distance.
Telecommunication Services is working on the problem and will notify the campus community when a solution is completed. Those whose telephones are affected should call the Telecommunications Help Desk at (360) 650-3600 and report the numbers they are calling from. This will help Telecommunicaitons Services identify and isolate the problem.
Jan. 25 is the due date for submitting coursepacks requiring copyright permission to the Copyright Office. March 1 is the due date for submitting coursepacks that do not require copyright permission.
Sandwiched between mountains and water, this college town is blessed with a heck of a front and back yard, one of the state's top cities for outdoor enthusiasts.
The city itself? Well, a lot of outsiders tend to treat it more as a rest stop after swishing down Mount Baker or riding the mountain-biking mecca Galbraith Mountain.
But Bellingham has been working to revitalize its downtown and draw more tourists, especially now that the 2010 Winter Olympics will start soon in Vancouver, B.C.
Winter quarter 2010 officially has begun at Western Washington University. Here, on a soggy Bellingham morning, students walk between classes in front of Carver Gymnasium. Forecasters expect the weather to remain gray throughout the week, with highs reaching the upper 40s. Photo by Carolyn Copstead | WWU intern
The 2010 Winter Olympics are coming to Vancouver and Whistler, B.C., in February, followed by the Paralympics in March.
Western Washington University's contracted vendor for bus transportation, Bellair Charters, has indicated that availability for bus transportation during these two months is already very tight. Departments planning to use bus transportation for field trips during February and March should make their reservations immediately.
Those who need help with bus transportation should contact Barbara Lewis at (360) 650-3068.
Soon after Allen Matsumoto moved to Bellingham five years ago he attended a meeting of Sehome Neighborhood Association. A good way to meet people and learn about his hometown, he figured.
That night, a professor from Western Washington University gave a presentation on his students' ideas for an "urban village" along Samish Way. People at the meeting liked the idea.
Not too surprising. The commercial strip from Bill McDonald Parkway to Edwards Street has seen better days.
On a very chilly and wet start to the fourth day of the conference, the growing swarm of attendees waiting to gain entrance to the Bella Center was greeted by about 20 college-age students from the U.S. clad merely in their skivvies. The students -- holding signs with such messages as "Don't Leave Us Out In The Cold!" -- are from all across the U.S. as part of a youth effort organized by SustainUS to help argue for a strong climate treaty. One of the skimpily clad student protesters -- the ironically named Chelsea Thaw -- said they did not mind braving the elements to prove their point.
Dozens of Whatcom County officers and firefighters joined thousands of their brothers and sisters in service at the Tuesday, Dec. 8, memorial for four Lakewood police officers slain last month.
Local agencies also had several vehicles participate in the miles-long procession that preceded the memorial, which was held in the Tacoma Dome and attracted nearly 20,000 officers from around the state, country and Canada.
All were gathered to pay their respects to Lakewood police Sgt.
After a task force's 18 months of work and more than 100 meetings, City Council members heard how limited energy resources globally could have an impact locally.
Members of the Bellingham/Whatcom County Energy Resources Scarcity/Peak Oil Taskforce recommended tying their work to how the county manages emergencies, especially if there is a shortage of oil and other energy resources, as well as things that need fuel to get here, like food.
No recommendations were approved or adopted by the council Monday night, Dec. 7, after the presentation.
Jere Hawn, the manager of the Manufacturing and Supply Chain Management program in the Department of Decision Sciences at WWU, was spotted on the "Today Show" this morning holding a Western Washington University sign, shouting, "Go Vikings!" and saying hello to his students and family back home in Bellingham.
They range from former County Council members to mechanics. Farmers, former planning commissioners and retirees are all in there, too.
But they all have one thing in common: Each one of them would like to fill the vacant Whatcom County Council District 1 seat after Councilman Bob Kelly resigned Nov. 26.
The Monday, Dec. 7, deadline for new applications to the council has passed, and 24 people have applied for the seat.
Protesters gathered in Red Square on the Western Washington University campus on Tuesday, Dec. 1, to protest U.S. President Barack Obama's planned troop surge to Afghanistan. After rallying on campus for an hour, the group marched into downtown Bellingham to Rep. Rick Larsen's office.
The rally was initiated by Socialist Alternative and co-sponsored by Whatcom Peace and Justice Center and Food Not Bombs.
It was the day that President Obama announced he was sending 30,000 more American soldiers into Afghanistan, and a little bit more than a week before he accepted his Nobel Peace Prize.
But to Sirantos Fotopoulos, Tuesday, Dec. 1, was the day he and more than 100 others decided to remind Obama supporters that he isn't necessarily a peaceful president.
The cold evening was warmed with candles Tuesday, Dec. 1, as nearly 50 people gathered for a World AIDS Day vigil at the corners of Holly Street and Railroad Avenue.
People in Bellingham have been gathering to show support since World AIDS Day began in 1988.
"For 21 years Bellingham people, affected and infected, have been standing on these corners and doing this march," said Evergreen AIDS Foundation Executive Director Ed Wilhoite. "It's a tribute to Bellingham's extraordinariness as a community and its generosity."
Wondering whether Western Washington University will be open on a particularly stormy day? Read the 2009-2010 Storm Line card to discover how to find out what the university's schedule is going to be when nasty weather strikes.
The Storm Line card is produced by the Office of University Communications at WWU.
Police need the public’s help to find who shot and killed a 43-year-old man in the middle of a busy Bellingham intersection.
A memorial is at the scene of Garden and Ivy streets in Bellingham where the body of Bryan Marriott was found lying Friday night. Police said he may have been the victim of road rage.
Bellingham detectives said they believe Marriott was driving up Ivy Street when he may have gotten into an argument with another driver.
In Bellingham's Sehome neighborhood, only a few blocks from Western Washington University, people are almost oblivious to late night parties and noises.
Just after 11 p.m. Friday, neighbor Glacia Rain did hear some shouting that caught her attention.
As local contractors begin planning for 2010, it's becoming apparent Whatcom County's construction industry will take longer to get back on track than many other sectors of the economy.
The Washington State Employment Security Department recently updated its estimates of how many people are employed in construction in Whatcom County, and it showed a dramatic drop-off during the peak part of the season. The ESD estimates about 7,000 people were employed locally in construction during the spring, but that dropped to 6,400 in June.
On Friday, Western Washington University student Carey Rose wrote an article explaining how Christopher J. Monfort had bought his 1980 Datsun 210 – the car Rose repaired and drove in high school.
Seattle Police say Monfort used the car in the Oct. 31 shooting that killed Officer Timothy Brenton and wounded his partner, Britt Sweeney.
Days after the shooting, police circulated a bulletin telling officers to be on the lookout for early '80s white Datsun and later gave photos to the news media to try to locate the car.
A huge fire heavily damaged Whatcom Middle School early Thursday, Nov. 5, canceling classes and leaving the school’s future in doubt.
A neighbor of the school at F and Girard streets called 911 shortly after 1 a.m., after seeing fire on the roof. By the time firefighters arrived about 1:15 a.m., the flames were racing across the roof. Within 15 minutes, the fire had worked its way across two-thirds of the roof, Bellingham Fire Chief Bill Boyd said.
Washington Gov. Chris Gregoire has directed that flags at all Washington state agency facilities be lowered to half-staff
Wednesday, Nov. 4, in memory of U. S. Army Chief Warrant Officer Three Niall D. Lyons, 40, of Spokane, who died this week in Afghanistan of injuries sustained when his helicopter crashed.
Flags should remain at half-staff until close of business Wednesday, or first thing Thursday morning, Nov. 6.
