Editing Western Washington University (section)

==Main campus==
[[File:Western_Washington_University_Looking_North.jpg|thumb|Campus, Looking North to Downtown Bellingham]][[File:Fisher Fountain.JPG|thumb|Fisher Fountain]]

WWU's main campus is located in [[Bellingham, Washington|Bellingham]], a city of about 95,000 people, overlooking [[Bellingham Bay]] and many of the [[San Juan Islands]]. The university is {{convert|90|mi|km}} north of [[Seattle]], {{convert|55|mi|km}} south of [[Vancouver]], [[British Columbia]], and an hour's drive from {{convert|10778|ft|m|0|adj=on}} [[Mount Baker]]. The university is located close to [[Interstate 5]].

[[File:Wilson Library.JPG|thumb|upright|Wilson Library]]
The Bellingham campus is {{convert|215|acre|ha}}, including the {{convert|38|acre|ha|adj=on}} [[Sehome Hill Arboretum]], operated jointly with the City of Bellingham. Campus facilities include an electronic music studio, an air pollution lab, a motor vehicle research lab, a marine research lab, a wind tunnel, and two [[electron microscope]]s. Western's Vehicle Research Institute has led ''[[Automobile Magazine]]'' to describe Western as "very possibly the best school in the country for total car design."<ref>{{Cite web |title=Notable in the Northwest|last=Tice|first=Carol|date=27 October 2007 |website=Seattle Times |url=http://old.seattletimes.com/html/localnews/2003975210_collwebhotprograms.html|access-date=2 October 2018 |url-status=dead |archive-date=2018-10-03 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181003062013/http://old.seattletimes.com/html/localnews/2003975210_collwebhotprograms.html}}</ref>

Western also has off-campus facilities at Shannon Point Marine Center in [[Anacortes, Washington]]; Lakewood, a {{convert|15|acre|ha|adj=on}} student-university facility at nearby [[Lake Whatcom]]; and [[Whatcom County]] property used for environmental and aquatic analyses.

===Public sculpture collection===
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[[File:Sculpture at Western Washington State College, 1970.jpg|thumb|upright|''Scepter'' (1966) by Steve Tibbetts]]

WWU's prized collection of outdoor and indoor public art sculptures is a major presence on its campus. The collection, funded by the Washington State Arts Commission, the [[National Endowment for the Arts]], and private donations, includes 36 works:<ref>About the [https://westerngallery.wwu.edu/sculpture.shtml WWU Outdoor Sculpture Collection].<br />The [https://www.wwu.edu/sites/default/files/campusmap.pdf WWU campus map] has a list of sculptures.</ref> Founded in 1960,<ref name="Western_Gallery_about">{{cite web|title=Outdoor Sculpture Collection |url=https://westerngallery.wwu.edu/sculpture.shtml|website=Western Washington University|access-date=12 April 2016}}</ref> the collection includes large-scale works by [[James FitzGerald (artist)|James FitzGerald]], [[Isamu Noguchi]], [[Robert Morris (artist)|Robert Morris]], [[Mark di Suvero]], [[Anthony Caro]], [[Nancy Holt]], [[Beverly Pepper]], [[Richard Serra]], [[Donald Judd]] and [[Bruce Nauman]], among others.