5/11/2012

May 11, 2012

General News

05-11-12 Daily Freeman Journal - USDA awards the "Healthy Gardens, Healthy Youth" to the partnership of ISUEO, WSU, Cornell, University of Arkansas.

05-11-12 KCRG - Second graders Isaac Hofferber, , and Audrey Leno, speak with Martha Aitken, of WSU

05-11-12 Tri City Herald - Pasco woman to teach after graduating from WSU-Tri-Cities


05-11-12 Tri City Herald - WSU researchers create online irrigation tool

05-11-12 ChemInfo - Mark, lead author Dr Ben Ellis and colleagues from WSU and WWU did this using a sophisticated isotope-dating technique.

05-10-12 AgProfessional - WSU to field test two-gene Clearfield wheat variety

05-10-12 The Grower - WSU study finds micrografting speeds cherry tree propagation

05-10-12 Environmental Leader - The base fertilizer has also been subject to early testing at WSU
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05-10-12 OPB News - WSU researchers recently studied struvite's performance in greenhouses

05-10-12 Capital Press  - WSU prof studying effect of road project on alkali bees


05-10-12 Police News -  WSU prof says UCLA study "helps confirm folk wisdon" about civilian exaggeration in descriptions

 

05-10-12 Puget Sound Business Journal - WSU survey: Seattle execs' business optimism rises

05-10-12 Daily Sundial - WSU research on addiction shows that about 80 percent of all DUI arrests are male

05-10-12 KPLU News - "This is not an argument that organic can or cannot feed the world,” said John Reganold, regents professor of Soil Science and Agroecology at SU


05-09-12 Hutchinson Center - Researchers from WSU, UW, Dana Farber/Children's Hospital Cancer Center and the Harvard Medical School contributed to the study.

05-09-12 Boise State Public Radio - Donald Wall directs WSU's Nuclear Radiation Center in Pullman.


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Higher Ed

05-10-12 Chronicle of Higher Ed - California High-School Graduates Increasingly Reject State's Public Colleges

05-09-12 Chronicle of Higher Ed - More Thoughts About Student Debt: the Horror Stories

Sports


05-11-12 CougCenter - Cougars Travel To Bay Area

05-10-12 WSU Athletics - Cougars Open NCAA Championship in Florida

05-10-12 MLB - Conley, a left-hander from WSU, is 3-0 with a 2.76 ERA, with 37 strikeouts and nine walks in 29 1/3 innings.


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Blogs/Opinion

05-11-12 Seattle PI - Seattle Humane Society & WSU Partner to Save Lives!

05-10-12 The Columbian - Pride Abounds at WSUV 

05-09-12 Kitsap Sun - Among the graduates last weekend at WSU were 14 who earned their mechanical engineering baccalaureate degrees primarily at Olympic College.