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U.S. News & World Report ranked Western Washington University as the top master’s-granting public university in the Pacific Northwest, according to its 2015 college rankings, which came out Sept. 9.

From the minute you meet Katie Brown, you get the feeling she’s an amazing teacher. Her intelligence and passion jump out. You immediately think: I would love for my kids to be in her classroom. It’s no surprise to learn she was named the 2014 Washington State Teacher of the Year.
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Ambitions are often simple dreams, born in shallow pocketbooks, that yearn for accoutrements larger than whatever the Joneses own. Some dreams deviate. They're more elemental, more profound. Consider Walter Dorwin Teague's ambition:

"I will strive to make the name I bear a…

Graduate student Jennifer Novotney won the Chemistry Champions competition at the American Chemical Society's (ACS) national meeting in San Francisco, Aug. 10.

A student in the lab of William Dichtel, associate professor of chemistry and chemical biology, Novotney was voted the 2014…

Western Washington University is on the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s list of the nation’s top 30 green energy purchasers in higher education.
Western, which is 19th on the EPA list, annually offsets 100 percent of its electrical consumption from green sources via purchases of…

The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation on July 30 announced the 20 nurses from across the U.S. who were selected as RWJF Executive Nurse Fellows for 2014, the program’s last cohort. Five of those selected from more than 100 applicants were from Nurse.com’s West region: