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| Western Youth Programs to Offer Odyssey of Science & Arts Program in Anacortes April 4-8 | |||
| Sea star wasting disease starting to fade as scientists identify factors in mass die-off | The disease that killed millions of the once-ubiquitous sea stars seems to be fading. Marine biologists are zeroing in on the combined factors — including a rise in water temperature — that resulted in the devastation of the sea star population on the Pacific Coast, from Mexico to Alaska… |
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| Funding cut for program working to cultivate diversity in Marine Science | Western’s Shannon Point Marine Center was recently praised in American Scientist magazine for its efforts to diversify the field of marine sciences. However, its chief multicultural program was cut in spring 2015 due to a lack of funding. The Multicultural Initiative in the Marine… |
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| New high-tech buoy key to monitoring health of Bellingham Bay | A new buoy about two miles out in Bellingham Bay is collecting streams of data around the clock that scientists and students will use to monitor the health of north Puget Sound and the Salish Sea. |
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| New Bellingham Bay buoy helps students, scientists gather data in marine waters | |||
| How to Recruit and Retain Underrepresented Minorities | I became interested in science in the 1970s, when African Americans and U.S. Hispanics comprised only 5 percent of the STEM workforce: As a third grader growing up in Oak Cliff, which at the time was a predominately African American community in Dallas, Texas, I was given a class assignment as… |
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| ²ÝÁñÉçÇø Marine Scientist Suzanne Strom Honored With Prestigious ASLO Fellowship | |||
| ²ÝÁñÉçÇø’s Shannon Point Marine Center Commons named after Steve Sulkin | |||
| New summer stipends honor president Flora, support marine biology students | |||
| Starfish Are Still Dying, But Here's Reason for Hope | It's been three years since millions of sea stars from Alaska to Canada and down to Baja, Mexico started wasting away into gooey white mounds. And although the destruction wrought by this disease shows no signs of stopping, the pace of the die-off has slowed. That's partly because so… |