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A website launch of GalbraithMountainMap.com, an interactive web map of the trails at Galbraith Mountain, will begin at 3 p.m. Friday, June 6, in Arntzen Hall 30 (AH30) at Western Washington University.

Western Washington University robotics students and Bellingham Artificial Intelligence & Robotics Society invites the public to its Northwest Robot Festival from 1:30 to 5 p.m. Friday, May 30, at ²ÝÁñÉçÇø's Communications Facility.

The next issue of Wired, on newsstands May 27, has an interesting infographic by Lucia Masud and Brittany Everett that looks at the top feeder colleges for seven big tech companies. The magazine gave me permission to reprint it below.

Jianna Zhang, an associate professor at Western Washington University, says she loves dance, although her professional skills are artificial intelligence and robotics.

She says she was offered professional jobs by other universities and companies, but says she felt…

Whatcom County is well served in the training of computer-security practitioners. The established, accredited two-year Cybersecurity program at Whatcom Community College has now been joined by a second two-year program at Western Washington University, together culminating in a bachelor's…

A team from Western Washington University won the Pacific Rim Collegiate Cyber Defense Competition regional at Highline Community College in March and was to attend the National Collegiate Cyber Defense Competition this past weekend in San Antonio, Texas.

Western Washington University students are competing, for the first time, in a national competition that pits computer-science students against each other in a three-day exercise in cyber defense.

Winners of the National Collegiate Cyber Defense Competition get a…

For the past few years, educators and parents have been imploring students to consider careers in science, technology, engineering and math — the so-called STEM fields.

It looks like they’re listening.

Public universities across the…