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Ten students nominated

WSU’s Murrow College students land three Northwest Emmys

SEATTLE, Wash. – Students from The Edward R. Murrow College of Communication this weekend received three Emmy awards from the Northwest Academy of Television Arts and Sciences. The awards were among nine Northwest Regional College Student Awards for Excellence given out this year. [more]

Sound scholarship

The beat goes online in new rock music course

PULLMAN, Wash. - "Rock and roll music has distinct qualities," says WSU music instructor Brian Ward. "A strong beat. Guitar driven. Lyrics about teenage things..." He stops. He realizes there are a gazillion exceptions.

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Printing excellence

University Publishing wins national best of show

PULLMAN, Wash. - University Publishing recently won the best of show award for non-offset (digital) printing at the national conference of the In-Plant Printing and Mailing Association (IPMA). The unanimous winning entry

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Rock Doc column

New ice cores reveal more about past climate change

PULLMAN, Wash. - Late in the last century scientists published reams of data about Earth’s climate derived from ice cores taken from Greenland and Antarctic glaciers. By drilling down [more]

Top scholars follow mentors to WSU

Students earn pharmaceutical science research support

SPOKANE, Wash. - Two graduate students in pharmaceutical sciences at WSU have received prestigious fellowships from the American Foundation for Pharmaceutical Education.

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WSU in the Media

June 18, 2013

* TIME - WSU prof: Surprising foods that toy with body temperature

* The Scientist - WSU international experts emphasize collaboration

* KXLY Spokane - WSU travels to Paris Air Show

* Capital Press - WSU researchers put strawberries through their paces

* Toronto NewsFIX - WSU research: Head injury survivors can still lea

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Responding to shortage

WSU launches online master's in special education

PULLMAN, Wash. - Responding to a statewide shortage, WSU is launching an online master of education in special education degree program.[more]

Alternative jet fuels

WSU exhibit to open at Paris Air Show

PARIS - When the 50th International Paris Air Show gets under way June 17, representatives from WSU will be here to promote the university's expertise in developing viable alternative jet fuels[more]

Seattle Center

Science EXPO Day delivers hands-on science fun

SEATTLE - "How disgusting are your hands?" ... "Is your cousin a strawberry?" ... "Can we write with marine skeletons?" Those were a few of the questions that drew crowds of youth to activities at Science EXPO Day [more]

Three teams nail perfect scores

All WSU athletic programs in NCAA academic compliance

INDIANAPOLIS - The NCAA released its 2011-12 Academic Progress Rate figures and all 17 of WSU's intercollegiate athletic programs are in compliance with the association's guidelines.[more]

Saving, diversifying honey bees

WSU researchers preparing bee semen bank

PULLMAN, Wash. - WSU researchers are preparing to use liquid nitrogen to create a frozen semen bank from select U.S. and European honey bee colonies.[more]

Pear, apple, almond, cherry

WSU scientists make genomes available for research

PULLMAN, Wash. - Anyone who has bought a hard pear at the supermarket can probably attest to the fruit's unpredictable ripening process. But that unpredictability, one of the [more]

July 9 launch

Email change to maintain WSU reputation, ease blacklisting

PULLMAN, Wash. – A change to email sent through the Information Services systems (Connect Exchange, smtp.wsu.edu, mail.wsu.edu) will be implemented July 9. It is expected that only 1-2 percent of email users will notice.

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Taking action

Working on national scale to build a healthier future

PULLMAN, Wash. - It’s about action, not talk, to create a healthier America. A WSU leader in recreation and student development is part of an exclusive national group tasked to build actions

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Testing manikin ‘victim’

Faculty, students take part in shooter simulation

SPOKANE, Wash. - Pharmacy professors and students from WSU recently trained with Spokane Valley emergency response teams in a shooting simulation[more]

Rock Doc column

Talking with Fido would be helpful – and fun!

PULLMAN, Wash. - Buster Brown, my big mutt from the dog pound, is 10 years old. Perhaps because he’s a senior citizen it took him a full week to learn how to operate the dog door I had installed last winter. [more]

Rite of spring

Vet college reminds people to leave young wildlife alone

PULLMAN, Wash. - The answer is always the same: Leave young wild animals untouched and where you found them. Each spring, a few calls come into the WSU Veterinary Teaching Hospital from well-meaning people

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Improving design

High school students compete in national contest

SPOKANE, Wash. - While their friends count down the final few days of the school year, Shadle Park High School freshmen Kleopatra Deltchev, Hailey Guyette and Jessica Lim are preparing for one last field trip.[more]

H. Keith Moo-Young

Tri-Cities community welcomes new chancellor

RICHLAND, Wash. – Hundreds of WSU students, staff, faculty and community supporters gathered Thursday night to welcome new WSU Tri-Cities chancellor H. Keith Moo-Young. [more]

WSU AgWeatherNet

Warm spring concludes with historic May weather

PULLMAN, Wash. - In the Goldilocks story of May’s remarkable weather, the beginning of the month was too hot, the end was too cool, and the middle was just right.[more]

WSU in the community

Ski patrol combines service, scenery

PULLMAN, Wash. - Whenever pharmacotherapy professor Danial Baker skis the slopes at 49 degrees North in Chewelah, Wash., he views it as "my Cheers, where everybody knows my name." That's because Baker, a member of the National Ski Patrol, knows [more]

Washington State Magazine

100-word WSU Memory Contest launched

PULLMAN, Wash. - Calling all WSU Cougar memory collectors! Washington State Magazine is holding a 100-Word Memory Contest.

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Advisor assists entrepreneur

Soccer strategy, thrills in a board game

PULLMAN, Wash. - Motivated young soccer players can improve their skills by kicking the ball around, but how do they improve their understanding and strategy?[more]

Perspectives

Commission on campus climate chair ready to begin

I announced creation of the Commission on Campus Climate in April. Given the brutal attack on Dr. David Warner and the underlying fear and anger among some parts of our community sparked by that attack, I felt it was critical to pull a group [more]

Season of the tick man

Tick expert cracks tough cases

PULLMAN, Wash. - As hikers take to the forests and fields, ticks are emerging for their first blood meal of the season. While most people cringe at that thought, a WSU scientist is enthralled[more]

Four initial choices

Pac-12 announces early football broadcast selections

WALNUT CREEK, Calif. - Four WSU football games, two road and two home, have been selected as part of the Pac-12 Conference's early television selections, the conference announced Wednesday.[more]