By Judith Van Dongen, WSU Spokane
SPOKANE, Wash. – Yesterday Washington State University and the Regional Airline Association released a report detailing the findings of the first, science-based study of pilot fatigue in multi-segment flight operations. The study was conducted by researchers at WSU’s Sleep and Performance Research Center.Continue reading
By Linda Weiford, WSU News
PULLMAN, WASH. – It’s not often that a humanities researcher is awarded a grant for nearly a million dollars – especially when the money is distributed from the government of another nation.Continue reading
By Will Ferguson, College of Arts & Sciences
PULLMAN, Wash. – New technology at Washington State University could help save the world’s largest species of freshwater turtle from extinction.Continue reading
By Will Ferguson, College of Arts & Sciences
RICHLAND, Wash. – New research at Washington State University could help in the design of long-term nuclear waste storage facilities and make it easier to clean already contaminated areas.Continue reading
By Kathy Barnard, University Communications
PULLMAN, Wash. – Asif J. Chaudhry, a career minister in the U.S. Senior Foreign Service who served as ambassador to Moldova in Eastern Europe and has held other leadership positions with the U.S. government around the globe, is Washington State University’s new vice president for international programs. His appointment begins June 1.Continue reading
By Cathy McKenzie, WSU Mount Vernon
MOUNT VERNON, Wash. – Rotating cover crops in tulip fields shows promise for fighting disease in the economically important flower bulb, according to early research findings at the Washington State University research center in Mount Vernon.Continue reading
By Rebecca Phillips, University Communications
PULLMAN, Wash. – The beheading of American freelance journalist James Foley. YouTube videos flaunting a Jordanian pilot’s fiery death. Mass beheadings and other barbaric images tweeted and posted on Facebook. Week-by-week the Islamic State, known as ISIS, ratchets up atrocity and serves it to news outlets around the globe.Continue reading
By Hope Belli Tinney, Washington SBDC
SOAP LAKE, Wash. – If a movie is ever made of Mary Lou Langley’s life, her Washington Small Business Development Center (SBDC) business advisor just might have a crack at best supporting actor.Continue reading
Commentary by Lisa Brown, WSU Spokane chancellor
SPOKANE, Wash. – It’s been called a turf war and the Apple Cup of medical education. We call it an emergency and a compelling state need.Continue reading
By Scott Weybright, College of Agricultural, Human & Natural Resource Sciences
MOUNT VERNON, Wash. – The watermelon crop has declined dramatically in Washington because of disease. But Washington State University researchers are developing a solution that involves grafting watermelon plants onto squash and other vine plant rootstocks.Continue reading