Matthew Liao-Troth (Management) wrote the article "Correlates of Faculty Unionization Voting Behavior," which appears in the current issue of "Journal of Collective Negotiations" (formerly "Journal of Collective Negotiations in the Public Sector") 2008, 32 (4): pp. 305-315. The issue was delayed with the journal’s move to a new publisher.
Three scientists at Western Washington University’s Shannon Point Marine Center have received a three-year, $557,000 grant from the National Science Foundation to study the impact on the marine food web of the rising acidity of oceanic waters.
As atmospheric carbon dioxide increases, more CO2 is dissolving in marine waters, affecting the chemistry of the oceans and making them more acidic.
If Barack Obama's intention is to create jobs for Americans by boosting trade, he'll have to start paying more attention to the beleaguered Canada-U.S. border.
Obama's jobs message, outlined in a recent State of the Union address to Congress, suggests Canada may finally have the opening it needs to take its long-standing case for easing border bottlenecks to Washington.
An article by American researcher Kathryn Friedman, appearing in the latest issue of the Canadian political journal Policy Options, urges stakeholders on both sides of the border to begin lobbying D.C.
If Barack Obama's intention is to create jobs for Americans by boosting trade, he'll have to start paying more attention to the beleaguered Canada-U.S. border.
Obama's jobs message, outlined in a recent State of the Union address to Congress, suggests Canada may finally have the opening it needs to take its long-standing case for easing border bottlenecks to Washington.
An article by American researcher Kathryn Friedman, appearing in the latest issue of the Canadian political journal Policy Options, urges stakeholders on both sides of the border to begin lobbying D.C.
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.
There I was, crossing Manhattan’s East 61st Street, casually making my way towards the Pierre Hotel, when a New York taxi cab stopped slap bang in front of me. And the driver wasn’t happy.
As he appeared to be Eastern European I couldn’t make out exactly what he was saying, although I gathered quite quickly that he was somewhat less than impressed with my ability to walk across the street while furiously scrolling through a page on my handheld.
Yup, I’d been BlackBerried.
Students in Western Washington University’s Huxley College of the Environment will be studying real-world environmental problems at a contaminated site in Anacortes.
Faculty from WWU’s Behavioral Neuroscience Program and Biology and Psychology departments will gather for a monthly neighborhood round-table discussion, “Neuroscience on Tap: Bring Your Own Brain (BYOB),” from 7 to 8:30 p.m. Monday, Feb. 1, at Bob’s Burgers & Brew, 202 E. Holly St. in downtown Bellingham.
“Monkey See Monkey Do! The Mirror Neuron Revolution” is this month’s topic, which will be hosted by Kelly Jantzen, an assistant professor in Western’s Psychology Department.
Joseph E. Trimble (Psychology, WCE) recently was selected to serve as a distinguished editorial panelist for behavioral and social science research with the Center for Scientific Review at the National Institutes of Health. Trimble has served on National Institutes of Health scientific research panels for the past 32 years, representing some 14 different centers and offices in NIH.
Though it doesn't reach the same level of self-absorbed and dangerous stupidity as texting while driving, texting while walking presents its own set of serio-comic effects.
According to an Ohio State University study recently reported in The New York Times, slightly more than 1,000 pedestrians visited emergency rooms in 2008 because they got distracted and tripped, fell, or ran into something while using a cellphone to talk or text. That was twice the number from 2007, which had nearly doubled from 2006.
A Canadian film crew shooting for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation was on campus Friday, Jan. 22, to film Western Washington University professor Ira Hyman and to re-stage (with WWU's Joe Myers on unicycle) Hyman's research on cell phone use for a documentary.
An award of $1,000 is presented annually by Western Washington University President Bruce Shepard at the June commencement exercises to a WWU faculty member selected by the Research Advisory Committee and the president as having made an outstanding contribution to research and scholarship.
This annual award, which began in 1983, was made possible through an endowment provided by former WWU president Paul J. Olscamp.
Criteria and procedures for the Paul J. Olscamp Research Award are as follows:
The Project Development Award program was established to encourage and enable faculty members to obtain significant funding from external agencies by providing release time to develop fundable proposals. External proposals developed under the PDA program should seek funding for research and scholarly activities that contribute to the mission of the university.
Whatcom County had the 10th worst job growth rate in the nation during a four-month period in 2009, according to a new report.
CareerBuilder.com reviewed data compiled by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics for 281 metro areas on job growth from July through October 2009 to compile a list of the best and worst regions in the U.S.
In the Bellingham metro area, jobs fell 2.3 percent during those four months. Grand Junction, Colo., had the worst period as jobs declined 5.2 percent, while in Merced, Calif., jobs rose 2.7 percent — the best rate.
Allow me to take you back to high school, to driver’s education, for a pop quiz.
You are driving on the freeway with one car in the lane to your left and one car in the lane to your right. Both drivers are having a cell phone conversation. The driver on your left, however, is holding a phone to his ear. The driver on your right is using a hands-free device.
Knowing that the use of cell phones while driving has been shown to make drivers less attentive and less safe – akin to the effects of drunken driving – which of these drivers should frighten you more?
Texting or talking on a cell phone is so distracting that someone doing either likely won’t notice a unicycling clown passing in front of them, a university professor said.
Ira Hyman, a professor of psychology at Western Washington University, was one of a series of people urging the Legislature to make sending a text message or talking on a cell phone while driving a primary offense which can get a driver a ticket all by itself. Right now in Washington, it’s a secondary offense, meaning driver only gets a ticket if he or she has broken some other traffic law.
A film crew from the German television show "Auto Mobil - Das VOX Automagazin" dropped by the Western Washington University campus today to film for an upcoming episode of the TV show. The show is set to air Jan. 24 in Germany. The crew planned to head up to Vancouver, B.C., to film another competitor for the Progressive Auto X-Prize -- Future Vehicle Technologies -- before heading home. Photos by Matthew Anderson | WWU
Liz Mogford (Sociology) recently was awarded a $5,000 Summer Research Grant from Research and Sponsored Programs to examine the cross-cultural conceptions of health and well being by extending the qualitative health mapping tool developed by WWU's Critical Junctures Institute to a rural Maasai village site in Kenya. Mogford is a fellow with the Center for Service-Learning's International Faculty Fellows Program and will be traveling to Kenya with other WWU faculty members and students this summer.
Faculty development awards of up to $1,500 (individual) and $2,500 (departmental) are available for the improvement of teaching, scholarship or creative activity or service.
Proposals should include a description of the activity, a budget showing contributions to the project from all sources and the amount requested. The total requested must include shipping, handling and tax expenses. Concurrent applications for departmental and individual awards for the same project will not be considered.
Funding is available for research and creative activities projects for undergraduate students. The objective is to provide encouragement for undergraduate students to engage in creative work in their disciplines and to provide some funds which may make it possible for them to do so. The competition is open to any registered undergraduate student in good standing.
Grants will be normally be awarded in the range of $100 to $500 per project. Note: this program is designed to support individual student projects only.
Wind instruments were installed Thursday, Jan. 7, on the Bellingham waterfront to gauge the feasibility of installing power-generating turbines on the site.
The $8,000 project is a partnership of the Port of Bellingham, Bellingham Technical College and Western Washington University. The 160-foot tower that holds the instruments was installed by a crew from Wear Construction of Snohomish. It's in an area off Laurel Street that was formerly home to the Georgia-Pacific Corp.
Western Washington University Professor of Secondary Education Ray Wolpow is the lead author of “The Heart of Teaching and Learning: Compassion, Resiliency, and Academic Success,” a just-published resource for helping K-12 teachers reach out and connect with students whose lives are affected by trauma.
Clint Spiegel (Chemistry) recently was awarded a grant for $44,661 by the Research Corporation to continue his work on the structure and function of the bacterial ribosome. Understanding the molecular basis of ribosome function is important for understanding how genetic information is expressed and has direct implications in the development of novel antibiotic approaches.
