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HomeMy WebLinkAbout051723 FW_ WWU Window Magazine_ Spring Edition ________________________________ From: alumni@am.vendor.wwu.eduOn Behalf OfWestern Washington University Sent: Wednesday, May 17, 2023 7:01:07 PM (UTC-08:00) Pacific Time (US & Canada) To: Heidi Eisenhour Subject: WWU Window Magazine: Spring Edition ________________________________ ALERT: BE CAUTIOUS This email originated outside the organization. Do not open attachments or click on links if you are not expecting them. ________________________________ Window is Western Washington University's magazine, published three times a year for alumni and friends of the university. <https://alumniqassets.s3.amazonaws.com/images/WWU_prod/2023-Eblasts/headerspringwindow.jpg> Honeypot Cyber Traps If you want to catch a crook, sometimes you have to think like one—just ask Western's cybersecurity students. <https://alumniqassets.s3.amazonaws.com/images/WWU_prod/2023-Eblasts/47d49798-6c46-cd72-b304-0c034d7f6af5.jpg> WWU seniors Robert Crocker and Shaine Metz spend a lot of time thinking about crime. It's a central focus of their degrees: Both majors in computer science and cybersecurity, Crocker and Metz are working with other students to develop "honeypots" that lure cyber criminals into sharing their dirty tricks and teaching students how to prevent future cyberattacks. Like spies who use sexual and romantic subterfuge to manipulate their victims, honey pots present themselves as ripe data targets for hackers. As the bad guys try to break in, programmers are watching their progress and taking note of how to prevent real attacks on more vulnerable assets. Honeypots are a big part of the research work Crocker and Metz are doing in Western's Cybersecurity Program, based at the WWU Center at Olympic College Poulsbo. They're focusing on protecting military-grade devices that are connected to the internet; the Internet-of-Things is coming under increasingly frequent and sophisticated cyberattacks. "Different sectors are being targeted by attacks all the time," says Crocker, of Lynnwood, "and from the perspective of a security analyst, you'd see behaviors in traffic that would indicate some sort of malicious action is happening. But it's happening in real time and real systems are at stake." By design, honeypots only appear to provide access to vulnerable data—they're not connected to protected networks. But the data collected from honeypots enables students to develop and test new defensive strategies and tools to prevent, detect, and respond to attacks. Learn more about how WWU students are learning to fight cyber crime >> <https://alumniq.wwu.edu/link/?ml=67C9F5CF-C459-455C-936CB7FC38A33F4C&mc=2cd3ccd7-f4ff-11ed-b93b-12450e6a9d2d> <https://alumniqassets.s3.amazonaws.com/images/WWU_prod/2023-Eblasts/f10baeb6-9bf7-8036-3b28-e8ffd94ca14a.jpg> Join Us for Back2B'ham <https://alumniq.wwu.edu/link/?ml=C91D8FA6-18D2-4060-B8F870D9682634D4&mc=2cd3ccd7-f4ff-11ed-b93b-12450e6a9d2d> B2B Alumni and Friends Weekend <https://alumniq.wwu.edu/link/?ml=8D2A6189-B556-4B2F-A36E2F700FFE6462&mc=2cd3ccd7-f4ff-11ed-b93b-12450e6a9d2d> is May 19-21 with Ashley Judd, reunions, food, tours, live music and much more! Digging for Answers <https://alumniqassets.s3.amazonaws.com/images/WWU_prod/2023-Eblasts/995a3ee2-35d3-6013-0dc0-911a03701c8f.jpg> This gorgeous peak in southern Alaska could be one of the nation's most dangerous volcanoes. WWU geologists are looking for clues before disaster strikes. Western Washington University Assistant Professor of Geology Kristina Walowski is a bit like an FBI profiler: She arrives on the scene and reads the clues to learn more about the explosive personality of her subject. But unlike the FBI, she doesn't have any hope of stopping the perpetrator from acting again—not when her subject is a 4,000-foot stratovolcano rising from the sea in southern Alaska. In June 2022, Walowski and her two graduate students, Sloane Kennedy and Mahinaokalani Robbins, spent six days on the flanks of the Augustine volcano on the southern end of Cook Inlet, one of the newest and potentially most dangerous volcanoes in the country. <https://alumniqassets.s3.amazonaws.com/images/WWU_prod/2023-Eblasts/78e7cf0a-101f-56ea-5856-0d70db1ffc9d.jpg> "We went to Augustine to look at evidence of past eruptions in the hopes of better understanding what is triggering these eruptions, and how these triggers might either make an eruption very explosive and very hazardous, or less so," she says. Learn more about this humongous "baby volcano" and its risk to neighboring communities. >> <https://alumniq.wwu.edu/link/?ml=32B41AA3-B08C-4606-AD40851984D0F4BC&mc=2cd3ccd7-f4ff-11ed-b93b-12450e6a9d2 d> The 16,400-Mile Shirt <https://alumniqassets.s3.amazonaws.com/images/WWU_prod/2023-Eblasts/23c32bcc-83ae-e8d0-12fb-aafddf497265.jpg> How one alum got to Western after a hitchhike around the globe. Deep in the vaults of the Smithsonian National Museum of American History, you'll find a very worn turban cover, along with a pair of black pants, a striped shirt and a tattered backpack stamped with "India N. Deli, U.S.A Seattle." What story is stitched and patched into that backpack? Whose turban did catalog number 2019.0073.4 protect? These items belonged to educator Hardev Singh Shergill, '62, M.Ed., who hitchhiked from New Delhi, India, to Seattle in 1960 before enrolling at Western. <https://alumniqassets.s3.amazonaws.com/images/WWU_prod/2023-Eblasts/d0a35dd4-e9b9-5d02-d23c-e47892db5d91.jpg> He wrote some letters of introduction to relatives and family friends and gave a trunk full of his belongings to a friend to be shipped upon his arrival. He donned the shirt, pants, and turban cover that now reside in the Smithsonian, shouldered his pack, and began his journey by train from New Delhi in June 1960. Read more about Hardev Shergill's global trek -- and some of the people he met along the way. >> <https://alumniq.wwu.edu/link/?ml=E205C45B-F48C-4967-A4843130A96EB570&mc=2cd3ccd7-f4ff-11ed-b93b-12450 e6a9d2d> Give Day is May 25th <https://alumniqassets.s3.amazonaws.com/images/WWU_prod/2023-Eblasts/05.01.23-wwugiveday2.jpg> Join us in supporting all the ways Western students dream, strive and achieve. Learn more about Give Day. <https://alumniq.wwu.edu/link/?ml=B8DC02D9-0BE1-4CDA-80465D673C35AABB&mc=2cd3ccd7-f4ff-11ed-b93b-12450e6a9d2d> A New Life for Ocean Plastics <https://alumniqassets.s3.amazonaws.com/images/WWU_prod/2023-Eblasts/ad5a707a-7405-cdd9-c51a-202d286c1634.jpg> WWU students and faculty are showing how plastic beach trash can be put to good use somewhere else. Fishing nets and lines. Buoys. Milk jugs. Soda bottles. Flip flops. If it is plastic and it floats, the ocean currents will carry it—often for years—before a storm deposits it behind a beach, joining untold millions of pounds of its kin worldwide. The narrative for decades was that this stuff was all just trash—that it had no use or potential beyond simply being garbage that no one really wanted to deal with," says John Misasi, '11, B.S., and associate professor of Polymer Materials Engineering. "But our team is part of the effort to change that narrative." Misasi and a dedicated crew of his students at Western are part of a growing chorus that is working to prove that ocean plastics aren't just landfill material, and a new public/private partnership between Western and Alaska's Ocean Plastics Recovery Project is focused on not only removing the plastic from remote Alaskan beaches, but keeping them out of the state's landfills as well. <https://alumniqassets.s3.amazonaws.com/images/WWU_prod/2023-Eblasts/walking.jpg> "The point isn't to move the plastic from one place just to put it in the ground at another," Misasi says. "This is all about the circular economy—of using and re-using the same product, not just making it once and then burying it." Read more about Western's Polymer Materials Engineering Program's work with ocean plastics. <https://alumniq.wwu.edu/link/?ml=773B8305-83DE-4CD0-8DA5FC42C2247649&mc=2cd3ccd7-f4ff-11ed-b93b-12450e6a9 d2d> A World of Shells Biology's shell collection has come out of the lab <https://alumniqassets.s3.amazonaws.com/images/WWU_prod/2023-Eblasts/shells1.jpg> Check out the department's recently digitized shell collection. <https://alumniq.wwu.edu/link/?ml=95D56488-1D36-4198-A85B7DB2D1DFE50C&mc=2cd3ccd7-f4ff-11ed-b93b-12450e6a9d2d> It's one beautiful COVID project. Ask the Clams <https://alumniqassets.s3.amazonaws.com/images/WWU_prod/2023-Eblasts/clams.jpg> 500-year-old quahog clams can tell us a few things about our changing oceans. Ocean quahogs have a long story to tell; they hold the record for longest-lived, non-colonial species on the planet, with life spans that can eclipse 500 years, and getting them to divulge their secrets can unleash a trove of data. <https://alumniq.wwu.edu/link/?ml=8A85072D-34CC-4966-BEE3A25DC536B57D&mc=2cd3ccd7-f4ff-11ed-b93b-12450e6a9d2d> WWU Research Licensed by a Sustainable Cosmetics Company <https://alumniqassets.s3.amazonaws.com/images/WWU_prod/2023-Eblasts/43bbceaa-f3a1-1f3c-114c-d22ea3ae5bde.jpg> Wax from marine algae may replace petroleum and animal products in cosmetics <https://alumniq.wwu.edu/link/?ml=B96A9D8B-1B2A-4D07-A379937AF52B1B3A&mc=2cd3ccd7-f4ff-11ed-b93b-12450e6a9d2d> In Previous Editions <https://alumniq.wwu.edu/link/?ml=4F6C560D-E082-4B5B-A407887EC81A4F18&mc=2cd3ccd7-f4ff-11ed-b93b-12450e6a9d2d> <https://alumniqassets.s3.amazonaws.com/images/WWU_prod/2023-Eblasts/514f711a-c7e1-70f9-b9f2-eb551a9c8f6f.png> Coding for Whales Can computer science save the whales? Alum Gracie Ermi is trying—and she wants more young women to follow her into STEM careers. <https://alumniq.wwu.edu/link/?ml=5CAE4C98-7F4E-4C96-B471A8BF83348EEC& mc=2cd3ccd7-f4ff-11ed-b93b-12450e6a9d2d> <https://alumniqassets.s3.amazonaws.com/images/WWU_prod/2023-Eblasts/8dfa6f4c-2d1e-a8bb-d06b-ab72a68ccef7.jpg> Mighty Women of Western Decades before Title IX, women at WWU were laying the groundwork for equality in women's athletics. Don't miss Window's Title IX edition. <https://alumniq.wwu.edu/link/?ml=D92444BA-E9EA-4216-AF2F373 D57B4148D&mc=2cd3ccd7-f4ff-11ed-b93b-12450e6a9d2d> <https://alumniqassets.s3.amazonaws.com/images/WWU_prod/2023-Eblasts/03.01.23-Window-20.jpg> Window to a Solar Future An alum who helped develop a new solar window technology <https://alumniq.wwu.edu/link/?ml=1343F77C-AD1B-406E-81F4C58434D1243A&mc=2cd3ccd7-f4ff-11ed-b93b-12450e6a9d2d> at Western returns to install the finished product. <https://alumniqassets.s3.amazonaws.com/images/WWU_prod/2023-Eblasts/03.01.23-Window-21.jpg> 19 Life-Changing Days in Ecuador Tag along with the Honors College students on a multi-media adventure <https://alumniq.wwu.edu/link/?ml=0EFAC1D4-B984-4962-A40A162E2A0676D5&mc=2cd3ccd7-f4ff-11ed-b93b-12450e6a9d2d> . <https://alumniqassets.s3.amazonaws.com/images/WWU_prod/2023-Eblasts/trees.jpg> The Trees of Our Lives Like the tree shepherds of Tolkien lore, the ents of Western have seen us through 120 years of campus history <https://alumniq.wwu.edu/link/?ml=EA708EAC-F573-4E62-8A31993C5FD9474F&mc=2cd3ccd7-f4ff-11 ed-b93b-12450e6a9d2d> . <https://alumniqassets.s3.amazonaws.com/images/WWU_prod/2023-Eblasts/d0e2817b-e7ba-6224-4b07-aa41acccaeaa.jpg> Aurora Season One alum harnessed the power of logistics to build a one-of-a-kind tourist experience in the Alaskan wilderness <https://alumniq.wwu.edu/link/?ml=B020FF18-6DDE-4D67-AEDC14A89847A270&mc=2cd3ccd7-f4ff- 11ed-b93b-12450e6a9d2d>   This is just a glimpse of what you'll find in Window magazine. 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