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Western's Jennifer Karchmer to speak on Iceland's freedom of the press May 3
Western Washington University professor to speak at upcoming business club meeting

An upcoming meeting at the Northwest Business Club will focus on future inflation, the global debt crisis and its potential impact on the U.S.

Vassdal-Ellis to present on art research May 3
Huge "Structure" of Satellites Found Orbiting Milky Way

A huge "structure" of satellite galaxies and star clusters has been found wheeling around the Milky Way, according to a new study.

The discovery surprised scientists, in part because the structure might spell trouble for theories of dark matter, the mysterious, invisible鈥

How language ties Siberians and Alaska Natives 3,000 miles apart

Spoken by only a few dozen people, a language uttered in river villages 3,000 miles from Alaska is related to Tlingit, Eyak and Athabaskan. This curious link has researchers wondering how people in the middle of Siberia are related to Alaskans and other North Americans -- and what it means to鈥

Klezmer and traditional jazz figure highly for singer who also teaches math at 草榴社区

By day, Millie Johnson is an associate professor of mathematics at Western Washington University, teaching such courses as linear algebra or honors calculus.
By night, and sometimes on weekends, she sings her heart out with klezmer bands What the Chelm! and Millie & the Mentshn, as鈥

For-Profits' War on Philanthropy

Critics of recent efforts to regulate for-profit colleges have suggested that the Obama Administration is waging a 鈥渨ar鈥 on for-profit universities.
The reality is exactly the opposite: the for-profit sector is challenging a centuries-old practice of separating philanthropy from鈥

Holocaust Survivor Keeping Memory Alive

A Holocaust survivor and local resident works with a Western Washington University center to keep the memory of the Holocaust atrocities alive in every new generation of students.

Noemi Ban spoke at Western Washington University yesterday.

Faculty must order fall textbooks by April 30
Western Washington University Students See Theory Applied to Manufacturing at Crane

For the last ten years, students from Western Washington University (草榴社区) have been invited to come with their professor, Peter Haug, to tour Crane鈥檚 Lynnwood site.

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