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| Caution: Texting, even on foot, is a hazard | In a study of “inattention blindness,’’ researchers at Western Washington University found that only 25 percent of people talking on a cellphone noticed a researcher cycling by — even though he was dressed as a clown, with a purple suit and a red nose, and riding a unicycle. |
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| Creative Challenges | (Page 42) Just up the coast, in Bellingham, Washington, a team of students from Western Washington University's Vehicle Research Institute last summer made it all the way to the second-to-last round of the X PRIZE Foundation's Progressive Automotive X PRIZE competition. |
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| Scholars Week May 16-20 to focus on scholarship of teaching and learning | |||
| Workshop on professional leave to be held May 20 | |||
| State university receives grant to create database of disaster scenarios | There are few things in life as frightening as being in the midst of a major earthquake. They often begin as a low vibration, a feel and a sound as though a large truck is rumbling by outside a house or office. Quickly they escalate into a fierce, deadly freight train of a roar with… |
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| Kimberly Lynn, supported by fellowship, continues research in Venice | |||
| Wallin gives presentation, gets two grants to fund research project | |||
| 'Science Fiction in Black America' presentation on May 5 cancelled | |||
| Parking fee at Washington state parks would discriminate against the poor and elderly | Five years ago, Michael Kirshenbaum researched the impact of public-land fees on lower-income people for his master's thesis at Western Washington University, reporting that the majority of people who no longer used our parks were low-income families and seniors on a fixed income. |
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| History's Peter Diehl to tell of little-known medieval plague during presentation Thursday |