Western Washington University News

Editor's note: Donald W. Whisenhunt is an emeritus professor of history at Western Washington University.

When President Obama attends the United Nations meeting on climate in Copenhagen, you can be sure that the deniers of global warming will go on a romp.

I'm not a climatologist, and probably you aren't one, either. Our job is to choose which experts to believe.

Former Western Washington University linebacker Caleb Jessup received honorable mention recognition on the All-Mid-America Intercollegiate Athletics Association postseason team.

BELLINGHAM, Wash, - In Bellingham's Sehome neighborhood, only a few blocks from Western Washington University, people are almost oblivious to late night parties and noises.

More than four years after Katrina left the deadliest toll for a tropical storm in the United States in nearly a century, most Americans remain convinced that hurricanes pose a greater threat to human life than in the past.

The world's oldest trees are getting fatter at the highest reaches of their habitat.

The latest NCAA report on graduation rates shows Western Washington University student-athletes once again graduating at rates above the national average for NCAA Division II.

Western Washington University's Kelven "Pee Wee" Halsell has been voted the 2009 Great Northwest Athletic Conference Men's Cross Country Coach of the Year.

Is Bella Swan too dependent on the men in her life, even if they are werewolves and vampires? Western Washington University panel members will answer questions like that when they discuss the role of gender, relationships and race in the popular "Twilight" book series from 7 to 9 p.m. Thursday, Nov.

Western Washington University junior Carey Rose, shown here in 2008, sold Christopher J. Monfort his 1980 Datsun 210 hatchback.

Freshman Negheen Kamkar has never visited Palestine before, but last weekend she found herself speaking on the countrya s behalf at the Northwest Model United Nations Conference, finding solutions to world issues with other students from across the country.

On Sept. 28, as reported in this newspaper, Gov. Chris Gregoire and 100 business and civic leaders marked an important milestone: dedication of the 10,000 square-foot Technology Development Center located at the Port of Bellingham's Innovation Partnership Zone.

Bellingham-based Gone Diving has been awarded a contract to teach scuba for Western Washington University students, staff and faculty.

This time, we won't buy ourselves out of the recession. That's the word from Western Washington University economist Hart Hodges, who said Thursday that the recession's recovery will take much longer than usual.

Despite the failure of recent efforts at immigration reform, a new effort should be mounted in the interests of both national security and economic prosperity.

When Paul Wright graduated from Ferndale High School in 2002, he knew he was headed to the Navy instead of college, where many of his fellow graduates were going.

Two hundred years ago, Charles Lyell coined the phrase "The present is the key to the past." In today's highly contentious issues of global climate change, we might well add "The past is the key to the future, i.e., to forecast future geologic events, we must understand past climate changes.

Legacy was the key word at a Vancouver 2010 Olympics seminar at Western Washington University on Tuesday, Nov.

How blind to their surroundings can people be when they're talking on their cell phones? Enough to miss seeing a clown -- wearing bright purple and yellow clothes, with a red nose and big red shoes -- riding a unicycle near them as they walked across Red Square on the Western Washington University campus, according to a study conducted by a WWU ...