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Perhaps nowhere in the nation is that symbiosis more evident than among the broadly distributed, hip-boot-wearing collective alumni of  — a smallish Bellingham institution with an outsized national…

Christy Austin says when her mother, Ervena Yu, gets an idea in her head, “she won’t stop — she’ll work on it day and night until she’s done.”

In this case, it was probably a good thing for her mother — almost cathartic.

How else could she possibly put aside the grief of losing…

“Snow algae have an interesting life cycle, with the ability to modify their pigmentation in order to adapt to changing seasons and environmental conditions,” says Alia Khan, an assistant professor in environmental sciences at Western Washington University. The algae is green during its…