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  • Stephan Blanford (left) and Celestina Barbosa-Leiker. (Photos via Children’s Alliance and WSU)
    September 26, 2021
    How disparities for women and minorities widened during the pandemic

    The 2021 WSAS symposium, "COVID-19: Science & Society" was covered.

  • An orca whale leaps out of the water near a whale-watching boat whose passengers happen to be looking the other way near the San Juan Islands in July 2015. The state Fish and Wildlife Commission has adopted stricter rules around whale watching of southern resident orcas.
    December 22, 2020
    New whale-watching restrictions enacted to protect southern resident orcas

    The work of the WSAS Underwater Acoustics and Disturbance Committee was mentioned.

  • October 14, 2020
    New rules would greatly reduce whale watching around endangered southern resident orcas

    The work of the WSAS Underwater Acoustics and Disturbance Committee was mentioned.

  • November 20, 2019
    How the Seattle area became a hotspot for satellite builders – and what comes next

    WSAS President Roger Myers is quoted.

  • October 17, 2018
    WSAS President: Looking back and looking forward

    WSAS President Anjan Bose provides some highlights from the past year.

  • October 4, 2018
    NASEM Report: Public Health Consequences of E-Cigarettes

    WSAS Board member David Eaton served as the Chair of the National Academy of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine’s recent report on “Public Health Consequences of E-Cigarettes”, published earlier this year.  In the report Eaton and a committee of 12 other experts critically evaluated over 800 peer-reviewed papers that addressed one or more of the often-controversial aspects of e-cigarettes.

  • AJAS Students and chaperones
    July 10, 2018
    Washington State’s brightest young scientists inducted to the American Junior Academy of Sciences

    The selected students attended the 2018 AAAS meeting - whose theme was Advancing Science: Discovery to Application - and shared their application-based research proposals with the broader scientific community.

  • June 15, 2018
    The creation of a ‘working’ academy

    Two of WSAS’s founding organizers, Drs. Jim Cook and Gordon Orians discussed the creation of WSAS and the ways in which WSAS mirrors the National Academies at the state level.

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