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WWU's Chemistry Department receives a 2024 Jean Dreyfus Lectureship grant

WWU’s Mariana Smit Vega Garcia awarded new NSF grant to continue her research into partial differential equations, ‘the language of modern physics’

Five people stand in front of a chalkboard, smiling. The man on the left wears overalls and a blue tee shirt. The woman next to him wears a black and white patterned shirt. The man next to her wears a striped shirt. The woman on the right wears a geometric print shirt. The woman in the middle wears a blue and green patterned dress.

Two WWU alums spend their summer researching whales at remote Alaskan lighthouse

Two students smile for the camera; behind them is the ocean and a few small islands.

Kaiser Borsari Hall Nears Completion

A modern building with a glass and metal facade, a walkway connecting to another building, and a parking lot in front.

WWU students, faculty devote chunk of their summer to cleaning up ocean plastics on Alaska's Kayak Island

Three volunteers fill large white bags with debris collected from a beach, including driftwood, buoys, and other trash.

Dungeness are WA’s most lucrative seafood, but we know little about them

WWU student Dori Harcharik wins industry honor for her research

Chemistry's Tim Kowalczyk named a Henry Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar for 2023-24

Tim Kowalczyk sits at his desk; behind him on a computer screen is the diagram of a complex organic molecule.

The Search for What Shook the Earth for Nine Days Straight

Students Share their Experience at the Volcano Conference

Geology student Denali Evers