Iuka Normal Institute (also called Iuka Normal School) was a normal school founded in Iuka, Mississippi in 1882, reportedly the first normal school built south of the Mason–Dixon line.
 It operated as a day school and boarding school, offering classes from first to tenth grades.
 In 1892, graduates of their tenth grade were deemed qualified to serve as principals of high schools.
 It ceased operation in 1902.
Kōjirō Matsumoto (松本 孝次郎 , Matsumoto Kōjirō ) is a Japanese educationist.
 He was a professor of Waseda University, and the provost of Tokyo Higher Normal School (today's University of Tsukuba).
 With educationists including Takashima (高島平三郎), he jointly founded the "Children Research" magazine in 1898, and in 1902 founded Children Research Society in Japan.
 In 1906 he was invited by Liangjiang Higher Normal School (today's Nanjing University) president Li Ruiqing and then came to China to be the school provost.
Bowling Green State University (BGSU) is a large, primarily residential, public research university located in Bowling Green, Ohio, United States.
 The 1338 acre main academic and residential campus is located 15 mi south of Toledo, Ohio.
 The institution was granted a charter in 1910 as a normal school, specializing in teacher training and education, as part of the Lowry Normal School Bill that authorized two new normal schools in the state of Ohio.
 Over the university's history, it developed from a small rural normal school into a comprehensive public university.
Leavenworth Normal School located in Leavenworth, Kansas was a state-funded normal school operated by the Kansas state government from 1870 until 1876.
Concordia Normal School located in Concordia, Kansas was a state-funded normal school operated by the Kansas state government from 1874 until 1876.
Richard Edwards (December 23, 1822 – March 7, 1908) was a Welsh American educator from Cardiganshire.
 Emigrating to the United States with his family when he was a child, Edwards studied at the State Normal School in Bridgewater, Massachusetts and Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, New York.
 He then led a number of schools: the Boys' High School in Salem, Massachusetts (1853–1854); the State Normal School in Salem (1854–1857); the Normal School in St. Louis, Missouri (1857–1861); Illinois State Normal University (1862–1876); and Blackburn University (1891–1893).
 From 1887 to 1891, he served as the Illinois Superintendent of Public Instruction.
Eastern Michigan University was founded in 1849 by the state of Michigan, and opened in 1853 as Michigan State Normal School.
 Michigan State Normal School was the first in Michigan and the first normal school created outside the original 13 colonies.
David Tucker is a geologist in Washington state.
 He a research associate at Western Washington University, instructor at North Cascades Institute, and the director of Mount Baker Volcano Research Center.
 He operates the blog "Northwest Geology Field Trips", a "must-read" blog for laypeople interested in geology.
 In 2015, he published a popular book on Washington geology, "Geology Underfoot in Western Washington".
 He resides in Bellingham, Washington.
Western Washington University (WWU or Western) is one of six public universities in the U.S. state of Washington.
 It is located in Bellingham, and is the northernmost university in the contiguous United States.
 WWU was founded as the state-funded New Whatcom Normal School in 1893, succeeding a private school of teaching for women.
 Its current president is Sabah Randhawa, the former provost of Oregon State University.
Western Illinois University (WIU) is a public university located in Macomb, Illinois, United States.
 It was founded in 1899 as Western Illinois State Normal School.
 Like many similar institutions of the time, Western Illinois State Normal School focused on teacher training for its relatively small body of students.
 As the normal school grew, it became Western Illinois State Teachers College.

Question: David tucker is a research associate at what school that was founded as the state-funded New Whatcom Normal School?
Answer: Western Washington University