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For more than 30 years, the men and horses of the Bellingham Coal Mines toiled beneath the city, using dynamite and muscle power to carve a labyrinth of passageways through a thick coal seam. Over their heads was a ceiling of crumbly slate rock, held up— if all went well— by log timbers and…

Engineering students from Western Washington University in Bellingham, Wash. are working on a recycling project to help earthquake victims in Haiti rebuild homes from plastic waste, according to recent news reports.

Nikki Larson, an associate professor of…

Nikki Larson and six of her Western Washington University students are working on an unusual recycling project they hope will result in helping Haiti residents get new homes while cleaning up their country.
Larson, an associate professor of engineering technology, and her students are…

The world’s largest lithium-ion battery plant, a joint venture between the Chinese lithium battery manufacturer Thunder Sky Group and Russian state run agency RUSNANO, was recently opened in Novosibirsk, Russia. The facility, referred to as Liotech, is expected to produce up to 500,000 lithium…

Western Washington University Professor of Geology Scott Linneman has been named the state’s Higher Education Science Teacher of the Year by the Washington Science Teachers Association.
Linneman, who has taught at Western since 2000, received the award at the National Science Teachers…

Peter Haug has certainly traveled to more dangerous places, such as Iraq and Afghanistan, but perhaps none as ominously quirky as North Korea, where he spent eight days as a tourist in early September.
An oppressive communist dynasty, North Korea is at the bottom of Americans' list of…