Whatcom Community College students write and produce news for local public radio station KMRE. This story originally aired on KMRE News Wednesday, Oct. 19. The Washington Smoke blogspot indicates fire locations for the state and current AQI levels for Western, Central and Eastern Washington. Dr. Sudhakar Karlapudi is the Network…
Author: Marina Sanders
Pizza Oven Project Cooking Over Summer
Doreen Richmond, who works in transitional learning at Whatcom Community College, saw students struggling to connect. “I noticed this year more than any other time in my past 22 years teaching that there were just so many students that were very anxious coming back to campus,” Richmond said. So she…
Whatcom Youth PRIDE
“When I went into teaching, I was like, is it OK for me to be a lesbian and a teacher?” Katelin Catwell, a Shuksan Middle School teacher and 2022 Whatcom Youth Pride Coalition (WYPC) volunteer once asked herself this question in preparation for her graduate program. “I never knew if…
New Media Center Offers A Lot Of Cool Stuff
The Phyllis and Charles Self Learning Commons at Whatcom Community College finished construction in May 2020 but was unable to open its doors to students due to COVID-19. “We opened the WCC Student Tech & Study POD on the first floor of the LRN in March 2021. This was our…
Martha Coolidge Never Had a Fallback Plan
Doesn’t everyone have a fallback plan? “I was willing to make a fallback plan but I don’t think I ever went there,” said award-winning American film director Martha Coolidge who helmed the influential films Valley Girl and Real Genius. Coolidge recently visited Bellingham to speak at the Cascadia International Women’s…
Club Focus: Grief and Philosophy
University of Edinburgh philosophy professor Michael Cholbi, who has a doctorate in philosophy joined Whatcom Community College’s Philosophy Club to discuss the topic of grief during a public Zoom meeting May 6. “We should adopt an optimistic stance regarding the value of grief, that on the whole it tends to…