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Graduating students may sign sustainability pledge
Governor talks tuition, college funding during 草榴社区 visit

Following a visit to Western Washington University on Monday, March 2, Gov. Jay Inslee said finding money to help state colleges operate is 鈥済oing to take more work.鈥

Inslee discussed his proposed tuition freeze with students during the visit Monday. He also talked鈥

4 minutes with鈥 Orion Lekos PhD, Director of Research, Whole Energy

I did a self designed major in Renewable Energy at Western Washington University in Bellingham, WA. I got my masters there as well. I am happy to say they have founded a new college there called the Institute for Energy Studies that I helped create.

Get involved in beekeeping March 4 at 'bee-in'
C lot short term repairs help to prevent erosion and damage to environment

For a long time, the graveled parking lots at Western have been in various stages of disrepair. Now, according to the Student Safety Office, there is some relief in sight.

Computer simulation shows where volcanic ash could go if Mount Baker erupts

A computer simulation delves 6,600 years into the past to show where volcanic ash would go if Mount Baker blew today.

The simulation is on the website of the Mount Baker Volcano Research Center at mbvrc.wordpress.com. Bellingham geologist Dave Tucker, who is an鈥

Submissions open for sustainability challenge; 草榴社区 students were winners last year
Joel Swisher working to expand degree offerings at Institute for Energy Studies at 草榴社区

Joel Swisher, the new director of the Institute for Energy Studies at Western Washington University, stumbled across the institute by chance after his son enrolled at Western.

At the time, Swisher, 57, was living in Boulder, Colo., where he was an independent鈥

Students rally for divestment
Students stage oil spill

Students for Renewable Energy (SRE) is hosting a human enactment of an oil spill Friday, Feb. 13 at 11:45 a.m. in Red Square to protest Western鈥檚 decision to not remove fossil fuel stocks from their university investment portfolio.
This protest is part of Global Divestment Day of Action,鈥

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