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Western’s faculty and students are engaged in exciting research and scholarship across a variety of fields. Each week, Western Today will share short summaries of the latest developments in scholarly work at the University.
Western’s faculty and students are engaged in exciting research and scholarship across a variety of fields. Each week, Western Today will share short summaries of the latest developments in scholarly work at the University.
Western Washington University Assistant Professor of Environmental Science Alia Khan has been awarded a five-year, $1.2 million CAREER grant from the National Science Foundation to continue ongoing international collaborations with scientists from the Chilean Antarctic Program to evaluate the role of temperature, light absorbing particles, snow-algae growth, and their impacts on snow and ice melt in the Western Antarctic Peninsula.
Despite the significant impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic, Western Washington University’s fall enrollment numbers held steady with the previous year, while posting record gains for diversity, its Graduate School, and a sizeable increase in its first-year class over Fall 2020.
Western’s faculty and students are engaged in exciting research and scholarship across a variety of fields. Each week, Western Today will share short summaries of the latest developments in scholarly work at the University. Interested in reading in-depth stories about science and research at Western? Want more research news? Follow @WWUResearch on Twitter. Broad-Energy Germanium Detector
Western’s faculty and students are engaged in exciting research and scholarship across a variety of fields, from marine science and climate change to teaching, the humanities, and the arts. Periodically, Western Today will share short summaries of the latest developments in scholarship and research at the University.
Each summer Western Today honors the seven Presidential Scholars chosen to represent their colleges at spring commencement. Each day in Western Today we will add one of the scholars to this story, so check back to see them all!
In this week's Research Recap, we have three award winners from Scholars Week and a new piece of equipment has found its way to the Anthropology Department. For in-depth stories on research at Western, go to Gaia, the university's online journal of research and scholarship, at https://medium.com/gaia-wwu, and follow @WWUResearch on Twitter.
Events
Nathan Roueche, Biology
Topic - Geographic variation of desiccation resistance in Rhagoletis zephyria (Diptera: Tephritidae) in the Pacific Northwest: An adaptive response to local bioclimate
Tuesday, May 3 @ 2 p.m. | via Zoom
Sydne Tursky, Environmental Studies
Topic - Faith in a Changing Climate: Policy Framing and Southern Evangelical Christian Views on Climate Policy
Thursday, May 5 @ 9 a.m. | ES 534
Jameson Goff, Environmental Studies
Topic - Arthropod and Microbial Community Response to Mixed Biochar and Compost Application in a Skagit Silt Loam
Thursday, May 5 @ 10 a.m. | via Zoom
Madeline Downie, Creative Writing
Title - High Gravity Days
Thursday, May 5 @ 3 p.m. | via Zoom & HU 104
Kathleen Byrd, Creative Writing
Title - Hold the Babies
Friday, May 6 @ 10 a.m. | HU 105
Brooklynn Smith, Experimental Psychology
Topic - “Say Her Name”: The Influence of Victim Race, Demeanor, Severity of Force, and Individual Difference Factors on Perceptions of Excessive Force Against a Woman
Tuesday, May 10 @ 2 p.m. | via Zoom
Jeremy Talusig, Chemistry
Topic - Synthesis, Characterization, and Applications of Thiolated Silk Fibroin
Thursday, May 12 @ 10 a.m. | location TBA
Katelyn Damron, History
Topic - Larger than Jelly Alone: Appalachian Reproductive Politics in the Depression Era
Thursday, May 12 @ 12:30 p.m. | location TBA
Caitlin Scott, Creative Writing
Title - Bitter Roots: An Exploration of Autonomy through Branching Narratives
Friday, May 13 @ 1 p.m. | HU 105
Johnathon Lyons, Music
Title - A gospel musician’s journey to orchestral conducting; lessons learned from Anton Filtz, Arcangelo Corelli, and Leonard Bernstein
Friday, May 13 @ 3:30 p.m. | PAC
Paul Sage, Kinesiology
Title - The Current State of Running Economy: A State-of-the-art Review of the Exploration of the Underlying Mechanisms of Running Economy
Thursday, June 16 @ 10 a.m. | TBA
Nicole Masurat, Environmental Science
Title - Off-channel habitat restoration using groundwater infiltration galleries in the Methow River Basin, Washington
Thursday, June 23rd @ 10 a.m. | via Zoom
The Hacherl Research and Writing Studio is where you can get connected with support for research and writing across all subjects. Join us on Zoom on Tuesday, October 26 at 4:00 pm for an intro to Grad Studio resources and an in-depth overview of the helpful research tool, Zotero.
The NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP) recognizes and financially supports outstanding graduate students who are pursuing research-based master’s and doctoral degrees in fields within NSF’s mission.
Join former WWU faculty member and GRFP director Gisèle Muller-Parker in a Zoom workshop On Tuesday, October 5 at 4:00 pm to learn how to apply for this incredible program.
Setting Our Sights on Mars
February 12: The WWU Alumni Association and College of Science and Engineering co-sponsor a webinar hosted by WWU Associate Professor and Mars rover team member Melissa Rice, along with current and former graduate students Jess Mollerup and Darian Dixon. Register here.