Stanford University Professor Dmitri Petrov’s talk, Barcoding Evolution, will take place on Monday, Oct. 21 at 3 p.m. in the Veterinary and Biomedical Research Building, room 305.

Dylan Bugden, who this spring joined the Department of Sociology as an assistant professor, is an expert in environmental conflict and the sociology of energy systems.

The summit provides IT professionals across the WSU system an opportunity to come together to discuss information security trends and topics important to continued security efforts.

The reactivated board, which consists of about a dozen faculty, staff and students, provides WSU officers with perspective on police and community relations.

A team of scientists led by a WSU researcher has found a way to tune a major industrial chemical process to create commercially important fuels, lubricants and detergents.

A WSU researcher is part of a $4 million effort to develop a better way to produce taxol, an anti‑cancer chemotherapy drug that was discovered in the bark of Pacific Yew trees.

The WSU scientists were able to determine with 93 to 99 percent accuracy the presence of antibiotic-resistant genes in three different types of bacteria.

The research, which is being conducted at WSU Tri-Cities, has the potential of being used at contaminated sites around the world.

An Othello farmer’s gift funds the new non-profit’s mobile health care unit, which will serve rural and underserved areas statewide.

The collaboration means students can remain in Yakima throughout their schooling, first at Yakima Valley College, then at WSU College of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences.

Students would first learn about keeping people healthy before moving on to treating illness under the proposed change, which has been approved by the faculty governance organization and now must be considered by the Faculty Senate.

The future of the campus includes a virtual hospital and an expanded capacity to conduct clinical research in further serving the Pacific Northwest region’s health needs.