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Western Washington University’s Richard Vawter, an associate professor of physics and astronomy, is retiring after decades of teaching.

Social media is playing a large role in allowing people to communicate in the aftermath of the earthquake and tsunami in Japan.

Seattle Pacific University student Jenni Husby has used Facebook to check in with friends. She was raised in Japan and spent time on the…

Two Western Washington University faculty members have been awarded a five-year, $590,000 National Science Foundation grant to help promote the recruitment, retention and graduation of gifted female students into the computer science and mathematics programs at ��������.

State lawmakers worried that Washington's prepaid tuition program could go broke have proposed changes that the program's director says may hasten its demise.

“What is the problem they are trying to solve?” said Betty Lochner, director of the Guaranteed…

Much has been made recently of Congressional efforts to eliminate as much as $100 billion in federal spending. And while those efforts resulted in the House approving a $61 billion budget cut, and the Senate and President approving a $4 billion budget cut just to keep the government operating,…

Western Washington University students found a friend over the weekend who was missing in Japan after Friday's devastating earthquake and tsunami, but several are still missing.

Mastataka Sugasawa had disappeared after Friday's quake -- his last online…

Three Western Washington University athletes - pole vaulter Ryan Brown, and distance runners Sarah Porter and Jordan Welling - have been named United States Track & Field and Cross Country Coaches Association All-Americans.

It's Porter's third such indoor honor, Brown's…