Western faculty Meg Warren (College of Business and Economics) and Samit Bordoloi (Woodring College) just published a Special Issue on COVID-19, Wellbeing, and Inequities in the International Journal of Wellbeing. See the abstract here.

Ten undergraduate students from Western Washington University have been awarded prestigious Benjamin A. Gilman International Scholarships to study abroad in 2021, the highest number of awards ever given to Western students in a single term.  

The students receiving Gilman scholarships are Shadia Amir (Kent), Sara Atack (Marysville), Jennifer Scott (Oakville), Kendrick Jackson (Lynden), AdriAnna Rodriguez (Las Vegas, Nevada), Isabella Colbert (Boise, Idaho), Citlalli Ocampo Bernal (Vancouver), Reuben Martinez (Port Angeles) and Rebecca…

As students and teachers around the country have experienced, online education is here to stay. The free “Lessons in Remote Learning” panel on Aug. 12 will provide students, faculty, community members and other learners the opportunity to hear from remote learning experts. 

The panel will be held via Zoom from 10-11 a.m.; registration is free at https://alumni.wwu.edu/event/western-insights-lessons-remote-learning. 

As fall approaches, K-20 educators are looking at different delivery models designed to allow…

Typically, the products we buy fall into two categories; conventional or “green.” Western Washington University Associate Professor Cat Armstrong Soule, along with assistant professor Tejvir Sekhon, are researching a third option for consumers; not buying anything at all.  

Armstrong Soule and Sekhon, both faculty members in Western’s Finance and Marketing Department, recently had their work on “conspicuous anti-consumption” published in the journal Psychology & Marketing. Armstrong Soule says she and Sekhon are among a growing portion of…

More than 50 Western Washington University students and graduates received Outstanding Graduate honors for the 2019-20 academic year.

Faculty members from dozens of academic departments and programs select one graduate to honor as the Outstanding Graduate of the year. Selection is a high honor based on grades, research and writing, service to the campus and community, and promise for the future.

The Outstanding Graduates from the College of Business and Economics include: 

Gabriela Guedea
Decision Sciences

Gabriela Guedea of Lynnwood…

Presidential Scholars are selected by six colleges in recognition for their exceptional scholarship and service to the university and their communities. 

The 2019-20 Presidential Scholars include: 

Ray Garcia

College of Social Science and Humanities
Outstanding Graduate, Journalism

Ray Garcia of Los Angeles graduated in March with a Bachelor of Arts degree with a major in news/editorial journalism and a minor in professional writing, literacies and rhetoric. Garcia is known in the department as a deep thinker whose intelligence is matched by…

While on professional leave in Spring 2020, Jason Kanov (Department of Management, College of Business and Economics) completed and published a paper entitled “Why Suffering Matters!” in the Journal of Management Inquiry. The paper describes how workplaces not only harbor but also cause significant human suffering, yet this suffering tends to be largely overlooked, ignored, or suppressed. Additionally, the paper discusses implications of these observations, which include better surfacing systemic inequities related to who is more or less likely to suffer at work and identifying…