Annual Showcase honors
Emeritus passionate about teaching science and engineering
PULLMAN, Wash. – Washington State University Professor Emeritus Donald C. Orlich has earned the 2012 WSU Emeritus Society Legacy of Excellence Award, to be presented during WSU’s annual Showcase Celebrating Excellence banquet on March 30.
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Be on the alert
Counterfeit $20 bills appear on WSU Pullman campus
PULLMAN, WA – WSU campus police are investigating a pair of counterfeit $20 bills that were passed on campus this week. The bogus notes were discovered by U.S. Bank officials.[more]
Arts and humanities spokesperson
WSU alumna named Washington state poet laureate
OLYMPIA, Wash. - Kathleen Flenniken has been appointed as the 2012-14 Washington state poet laureate. Flenniken is the state’s second poet laureate.
[more]WSU in the Media
February 10, 2012
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* Seattle Times - Seattle woman (WSU alumni) named state’s poet laureate * Capital Press - WSU studies bighorn habitat * Spokesman-Review - Cougars earn road win at Oregon State * Investors Business Daily - On-Campus Sports Network launches |
Teacher alumna applies lessons from WSU
Sponge-bomb Smarty-pants: Re-enactment teaches history
PULLMAN, Wash. - Any lesson that involves slings, plastic pipe and lobbing wet ammunition is one a seventh-grader will remember.
[more]Annual Showcase honors
Speech/hearing sciences professor earns diversity award
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PULLMAN, Wash. - Speech and hearing sciences professor Ella Inglebret has been selected to receive Washington State University’s Faculty Diversity Award during the annual Showcase celebration of excellence on March 30.
[more]$7.4 million
Washington grape growers, wine makers support new facility
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KENNEWICK, Wash. – During the 2012 meeting of the Washington Association of Wine Grape Growers, President Elson S. Floyd thanked Washington grape growers and wine makers for their $7.4 million commitment to the WSU Wine Science Center facility. [more]
New programs and research
Ste. Michelle invests in WSU viticulture and enology program
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PULLMAN, Wash. – Washington’s wine industry will become even more competitive and continue to grow, thanks to a $1 million investment from Ste. Michelle Wine Estates and its parent company, Altria Group, Inc., to support wine science programs at WSU.
[more]Four earn Showcase honors
Sahlin awards for research, teaching, leadership, outreach
PULLMAN, Wash. - Four WSU faculty have been named recipients of the 2011-12 Sahlin awards, to be presented at WSU's Showcase celebration of excellence on March 30.
[more]Annual Showcase honors
Poovaiah will present Distinguished Faculty Address
PULLMAN, Wash. - B.W. "Joe” Poovaiah has been selected to give the 2012 Distinguished Faculty Address on Friday, March 30, as part of the annual Showcase celebration of WSU research, scholarship and creative work.
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Making a difference
Student weighs challenges of rural medicine
SPOKANE, Wash. – As a Washington State University undergraduate, Mallory Beale volunteered in her rural hometown’s health clinic at a time when her entire county was without a doctor. Now in her third year of medical school at WSU Spokane, [more]
Bighorn sheep habitat
WSU study examines forest fire suppression effects
PULLMAN, Wash. – Bighorn sheep in northern Washington are not thriving the way they should and Washington State University faculty members are working to figure out why.[more]
Renowned program flying high
Honors College featured in Alaska Air magazine
PULLMAN, Wash. - You know how the airlines always say you’re welcome to keep the in-flight magazine? Faculty and students connected to the Honors College at WSU [more]
WSU’s celebration of excellence
Showcase reservations open through March 16
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PULLMAN, Wash. - Reservations for Showcase, Washington State University’s annual daylong celebration of faculty, staff and student achievement, are being accepted through March 16.
[more]Starting today
Student responses help improve undergraduate education
PULLMAN, Wash. - Washington State University takes seriously its mission to deliver the best possible education. It is asking 11,560 of its undergraduates, starting Feb. 7, to watch for and respond to an online questionnaire [more]
Rock Doc column
Pressure within Earth fueled disaster
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PULLMAN, Wash. - It does seem like there’s something magical about artesian wells. Digging down to a level in the Earth from which water then spurts unaided is like a dream come true for some. And, after all, why pay the electric company for power to run a pump if Mother Nature will do all the work herself?[more]
